9 killed, 12 injured during ‘dangerous’ bid to scale Mont Blanc | TribLIVE

Early summer storms left behind heavy snow that combined with high winds to form dangerous overhanging conditions on some of the popular climbing routes around Mont Blanc. Regional authorities had warned climbers to be careful because of an unusually snowy spring.

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Stephen Emmott: overpopulation is at the root of all the planet's troubles | Technology | The Observer

Stephen Emmott is a professor of computing at Oxford University and head of Microsoft's Computational Science Laboratory in Cambridge...I want to change people's ideas about the impact we are having on the planet. We need changes at a political level. What have done so far is pitiful. Durban, Kyoto, Copenhagen – all have been failures.

We are in a desperate situation and I don't think people realise that. Many think we will find a clever solution sometime in the future, like building solar shields in space to keep our planet cool. I am going to tell the audience that these ideas are very suspect. Radical behaviour change is what is really needed. Our problems are not just those concerned with carbon emissions. There are so many other things – overfishing, destroying habitats and eradicating species – that we need to change. It is either that or sit and do nothing which, in effect, is the position we have adopted so far. Science has spent far too long hiding behind caveats. We have to come off the shelf although I suspect it may too late now. Indeed, the show will end with my admitting to the audience that I think we are f$cked.

Two freeze to death on roads during storms | Perth Now

AT LEAST three people were found dead Sunday and thousands were evacuated as rains and snow battered South Africa's southeast.