Mt. High Opens As First Resort In SoCal

Says Karl Kapuscinski, President and CEO, “We are very excited to lead Southern California into the 2011/12 season.  This is one of our earliest openings ever and with more cold weather in the forecast we are looking forward to a fantastic start.”

Radio New Zealand : News : Rural : Hard frost sets Otago gapegrowers back weeks

Grapegrowers in Central Otago say a devastating weekend frost put them three weeks behind the start of the growing season.

Bitterly cold westerlies brought snow to the south on Saturday, making it too windy and too cold for farmers to use wind machines to protect crops.

Climate change gets left out in the cold

public awareness of climate change in Asia is limited. The Gallup World Poll, a survey carried out regularly in almost 150 countries since 2007, has found that nearly four in 10 people in east Asia and the Pacific are unaware of climate change and only 28 per cent think it is a serious threat.

In India, the world's biggest democracy, climate change has not registered in the mainstream political debate anything like it has in Australia and other Western nations.

Forthcoming Series on Science at The Conversation

Study after study shows not only are people more interested in science then they are in sport (yes, even in Australia), but they also don’t feel informed enough about it.