Heathrow third runway would treble air pollution deaths, study warns | Environment | guardian.co.uk

If Heathrow is expanded with a third runway to allow for unconstrained growth, the airport would be responsible for 150 early deaths; UK-wide deaths would be 260.

China now eats twice as much meat as the United States - Telegraph

China now eats twice as much meat as the United States and must rein in its appetite or face a food crisis, one of the country's leading farm experts has warned.

Fuel Fix » Shale gas by the numbers

Add another report to the growing number that say shale gas is an economic boon to the United States.

A paper by a group of economic graduates from Yale University, published this month in Oil & Gas Investor, estimated that consumers saved $100 billion a year in 2011.
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Overall, they conclude, the economic benefit of shale gas drilling exceeds cost to the community by 400-to-1.

Gore warns NZ not immune to climate change - World - NZ Herald News

Mr Gore was speaking ahead of a private engagement at the Pacific Events Centre in Manukau for which the Herald understands he will be paid hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Event company Duco flew Mr Gore to New Zealand because the American election is nigh and because he is what they term a "thought-leader."

Mr Gore told the Herald global warming could actually be the answer to a world struggling to escape the effects of the global recession because we need to create millions of jobs.

"How can we do that? By building solar and wind and retro buildings - 30 per cent of global warming pollution comes from buildings that have little or no insulation, that have inefficient energy systems. We can put millions of people to work fixing that.

"This is the answer to our economic problems as well as the environmental changes."