Environmental Law

In Other News (May 9)

By Dennis Pfaff and Kevin Livingston, Editors

• What is arguably the world's cutest animal, the koala, faces threats to its existence from climate change, according to Australia's Science Daily.
• California Lt. Gov. John Garamendi warns that global warming could push water levels high enough to inundate the Central Valley town of Stockton, the Stockton Record reports. 
• Evangelicals and other Christian activists are allying themselves with proponents of legislation in Congress to curtail greenhouse emissions, says a McClatchy Newspapers report in the Dallas Morning News.
• A recent study that suggests a possible lull in global warming could reduce the urgency of the battle to combat climate change, speculates Reuters.
• Farmers in the Philippines are being told that irrigation water for rice crops is drying up due to a changing climate, according to an article in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.  

Full post as published by Climate Law Update on May 09, 2008 (boomark / email).