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yes. more of those pesky stories you probably won't hear on the white male talking head shows.

ocean acidification is latest manifestation of global warming. - millions of marine species are now threatened with extinction; fisheries face eradication; reefs that protect coastal areas are starting to erode. ocean acidification is now one of the most worrying threats to the planet, say marine biologists - london observer

an unlikely power duo emerges in the global fight against climate change. - bill clinton and michael r. bloomberg are taking on an issue – climate change – that may well shape the world’s economic and social future for decades to come. but can this unlikely power coupling make an impact in stemming rising seas or cooling the planet? - nytimes

china drought affects more than 34 million people. - a debilitating drought along china's yangtze river has affected more than 34 million people, leaving farmers and livestock without water and parching a major grain belt, the government said saturday. - afp

peak coffee: a cup of trouble. - on a mountaintop estate in the rugged coffee-making region of quindio, colombia, juan pablo villota is at war with the weather. changing weather patterns have wreaked havoc on coffee supply, particularly the arabica strain, which is grown in the americas and africa and which makes the best coffee. - globe and mail

mercury, pcbs widespread in sport fish in california's urban coastal waters. - traces of mercury and pcbs are widespread in sport fish in california's urban coastal waters, a survey found. but 19% of the coastline sampled had fish with mercury in such high concentrations that they shouldn't be eaten by young women and children - latte times

deadlier than dutch elm: u.s. trees stricken by a plague of ash borers. - a voracious beetle known as the emerald ash borer, first discovered in detroit in 2002, has been gradually spreading, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. the infestation has already killed some 60 million ash trees in 15 states as far east as new york and as far south as tennessee - time magazine

sorry, charlie! better luck next time getting endangered species status. - the federal government has decided not to list atlantic bluefin tuna as an endangered species. adding insult to injury, the altantic bluefin spawning grounds in the gulf of mexico were in the path of last year's bp oil spill - npr

costa rica’s war on climate change. - for many years, the small nation of costa rica has been leading the war against the negative affects resulting from climate change. in korea, costa rica has found an ally in this battle - seoul korea herald

a generation out of time. - when he was a 27-year-old university of utah student, tim dechristopher took a bold action on climate change that vaulted him into the national spotlight and soon, may land him in prison - telluride daily planet

new orleans residents of superfund site still waiting for their checks. - homes on the site of former agriculture st. landfill sat atop a stew of chemicals so dangerous the government declared it a federal Superfund site. 18 years later, after the court upheld a judgment in the residents' favor, the claimants are still waiting for their money - times picayune

gingrich calls for 'all out' drilling. - the republican white house hopeful says such efforts would bring down gasoline prices long before new supplies are produced - washington hill

democrats want hearing on marcellus impacts. - democrats on the house committee on energy and commerce want to hold congressional hearings on the environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing, which recovers gas and oil reserves deep underground. - charleston gazette

mother earth's rights get new respect. - there is no doubt that the dominant culture is killing the planet. nature has been treated as a subsystem of the economy rather than the other way round. with all the new accumulation of knowledge, it has not translated into understanding. nothing can be more important than life - madison capital times

bidding war heats up for low u.s. corn supplies. - a bidding war is heating up among users of corn in the united states as livestock feeders and ethanol makers scramble to lock in supplies before extremely low stocks run dry by this summer - reuters

money drought threatens river gauges. - budget problems could shut down Iowa river gauges that are crucial to flood predictions and meteorologists' ability to predict flooding as well as the army corps' decisions on how to maintain reservoirs, officials warned this week. - des moines register

a new flood, some old truths. - years of mismanagement of the vast mississippi river ecosystem — the relentless and often inadvisable construction of levees and navigation channels, the paving over of wetlands, the commercial development of flood plains — have made the flood damage worse than it might otherwise have been. - nytimes

the era of climate disasters has begun. - as the floodwaters roll down the mississippi river, and as joplin, mo., copes with a tragic tornado, it is now apparent that we have entered a new era of human history — an era of climate disasters, where human fingerprints are found on disasters previously called "natural." - des moines register

largest-ever dead zone 'a disaster in the making' for louisiana fishermen. - louisiana's shrimpers expected 2010 to be a good year. instead, they got the oil spill. now the swollen mississippi river is expected to deliver another heavy blow to a seafood industry already on the ropes: a massive flush of fertilizer, animal manure, treated sewage, pesticide and urban runoff - greenwire

flooding could spur largest ever dead zone. - the massive amount of nutrient-heavy river water pouring out of spillways and through the mouths of the mississippi and atchafalaya rivers will likely trigger a record-setting gulf of mexico dead zone, an area of low-to-no oxygen water that forms annually off louisiana’s coast. - thibodaux daily comet

costly weather. - taxpayers subsidize 60 percent of farmers' crop insurance. Extreme weather could up the ante - marketplace