Antarctic research at risk as government cuts back on science | World news | The Observer

The impact of global warming is being felt first at the poles. This year summer sea-ice levels in the Arctic plunged to a record low and there is every sign that equally profound changes are taking place in the Antarctic, though it is a far more complex terrain to comprehend than its northern counterpart.

Environmentalism That Can Work | Via Meadia

And we also hope that environmentalists everywhere will take note: when greens find ways to enhance human well being while also protecting natural resources, good things happen for everyone. There are many serious environmental problems in our urbanizing and industrializing world, and managing the impact of human activity on the environment is something we need to do. But the planet’s resources ultimately need to be managed from a humanity-centric position: when environmentalists default to the position that human beings are a blight on the planet whose depredations must be halted they stop being part of the solution.

Green Firms Angry As Poland Abandons Wind Subsidies | The Global Warming Policy Foundation

Denmark’s Dong and Iberdrola of Spain — two of the largest investors in Polish wind farms — are looking to exit Eastern Europe’s largest energy market just as the government moves to overhaul its system of support for green energy by effectively cutting funding for onshore wind.

The Natural Gas Revolution: Creator And Destroyer | The Global Warming Policy Foundation

The natural gas revolution is currently spreading out from North America to creatively impact countries from China to the Ukraine to Poland to Israel. These are countries that are likely to benefit from the development of their newly discovered energy riches.

Hantavirus in Yosemite may be shape of things to come

Hantavirus in Yosemite. West Nile virus in 48 states. Even a case of bubonic plague.
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"I hear locusts are next," says Cathi Soriano of Seattle, who recently took Yosemite National Park off a road-trip itinerary.
Climate cycles very clearly play a part in outbreaks, says Michael Osterholm,director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policyat the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. The question is at what point any given outbreak is being caused by climate change or simply normal weather cycles. However, it's clear that "eventually (climate change) will affect things, but is it now? We don't know," he says.