Cold snap kills 200 cows on West Coast - National - NZ Herald News

Last week's "blizzard-like" cold snap has killed more than 200 cows on farms on the West Coast of the South Island.

French winter barley, rapeseed to fall 10 percent | Business Recorder

France's winter rapeseed and barley crops will each fall by almost 10 percent this year due to frost damage, the farm ministry said on Monday in its first production forecasts for the 2012 harvest. Unusually severe frosts in late January and early February destroyed or weakened crops in parts of Europe, including widespread damage in France's north-east.

Council facing $2.5m carbon tax bill - Utility Products Magazine

The Sunshine Coast Regional Council says the carbon tax will cost it about $2.5 million next financial year.

In Austria is snowing - Entertainment - M-Magazine

Vienna - Austria in past two days, faced with the storm which brought not only colder weather but also heavy rain falls, while in Sankt Pölten, even snow which arrived 20 centimeters.

[Fair-and-balanced reporting?]:  Americans for Prosperity to protest pro-wind rally of ‘extremist’ kite-flying kids | Grist

Americans for Prosperity (AFP) now sees children flying kites as a major threat to society.