New UN atlas links climate change, health

msnbc.msn.com/

GENEVA — Two U.N. agencies have mapped the intersection of health and climate in an age of global warming, showing that there are spikes in meningitis when dust storms hit and outbreaks of dengue fever when hard rains come.

Caribbean coral reefs face collapse

guardian.co.uk

Sep 9, 2012

Caribbean coral reefs are in danger of disappearing, depriving the world of one of its most beautiful and productive ecosystems

A Summer of Extremes Signifies the New Normal

09-04-2012

bill mckibben

This summer has seen record heat waves and wildfires in the U.S, the worst flooding in Beijing’s modern history, and droughts that devastated the U.S. corn crop and led India to set up “refugee camps” for livestock.

Animated map: U.S. drought in 2012

Drought conditions have been at record levels in the contiguous United States for much of July, according to the National Drought Mitigation Center, which began monitoring drought conditions in 1999.

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