As pollution soars, cancer is now the leading cause of death in China « Climate Progress

Deaths from this typically fatal disease have shot up nearly fivefold since the 1970s. In China’s rapidly growing cities, like Shanghai and Beijing, where particulates in the air are often four times higher than in New York City, nearly 30 percent of cancer deaths are from lung cancer.

Extreme weather and climate science don’t move Missouri deniers such as Rep. Todd Akin « Climate Progress

let’s not put politicians like Akin in charge of the weather — because that will guarantee it just gets more and more extreme.

Bakersfield CA : CARB announces winners of High School Climate Change project

The winning project, an education and outreach campaign that gave students strategies and tools to reduce emissions with modest lifestyle changes was entitled, “Behavior Change or Climate Change.”

Fears farmland will be swamped by trees - National Rural News - Agribusiness and General - Political - Stock Journal

THE Coalition has refused immediate support for the government's carbon farming bill because it fears farmland will be consumed by forests, but the timber industry says Tony Abbott's Direct Action plan would require up to 600,000 hectares of cleared agricultural land to be converted to plantations.