Vermont flooded after Irene’s torrential rains

BOSTON (Reuters) – Vermont residents battled epic flooding on Monday after the remnants of Hurricane Irene set off the state’s worst flooding in nearly 40 years, washing out roads and knocking out power. At least one person was killed after being swept into a swollen river in the mountainous, land-locked New England state, which rarely [...]

Favorable Reasons to go Green

Going Green is a positive thing. This fact can not be stressed enough. The reality of the situation is to many people are under the illusion that it will be difficult, more expensive, and to time consuming to change. When it actual fact life will remain the same only greener and better for every living [...]

New York City gets back to business after Irene

By Edith Honan and Claudia Parsons NEW YORK | Mon Aug 29, 2011 12:09pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City was slowly getting back to business as usual on Monday after Hurricane Irene but hundreds of thousands of people who normally travel in from the surrounding area faced a hellish commute as flooding [...]

Greenpeace: Fukushima schools unsafe after clean-up

By Natalia Konstantinovskaya TOKYO | Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:14am EDT TOKYO (Reuters) – Greenpeace said on Monday that schools and surrounding areas located 60 km (38 miles) from Japan’s tsunami-hit nuclear power plant were unsafe for children, showing radiation readings as much as 70 times internationally accepted levels. Article source: Source

Green food exhibition; int’l investment and trade fair; ocean economics forum

BEIJING, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) — The following are several Chinese economic news stories in brief: 11TH CHINA GREEN FOOD EXPO OPENS IN NE CHINA The 11th China Green Food Exposition kicked off in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province on Sunday. The exposition is showcasing 2,383 varieties of organic food products from 475 companies from both home [...]

Climate change links to social, mental health

CANBERRA (Xinhua) – An Australia report released on Monday draws a direct link between inaction on climate change and long-term social and mental health problems. The Climate Institute report, A Climate of Suffering: The Real Cost of Living with Inaction on Climate Change, points that in the wake of extreme weather in Australia, such as [...]

Is Climate Change To Blame For New York’s Vulnerability?

The announcement that New York and the rest of the East Coast was going to be where Hurricane Irene is making its landfall came as a surprise. It seemd the path has moved, when it used to fall in the central and southern states like Kansas. According to reports, the last century saw the sea [...]

Global climate worry up slightly since 2009

By Nina Chestney LONDON | Sun Aug 28, 2011 12:04pm EDT LONDON (Reuters) – Global concern about climate change has risen only very slightly over the past two years, as consumers have focused on more immediate economic worries, according to an opinion poll published on Sunday. Article source: Source

Irene floods northeast, Manhattan spared the worst

By Edith Honan and Clare Baldwin NEW YORK | Sun Aug 28, 2011 6:04pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hurricane Irene swept through Manhattan on Sunday but reserved the worst of its fury for towns and suburbs up and down the northeast region where driving rain and flood tides inundated homes and cut power to [...]

Tropical storm warning issued for Bermuda

MIAMI (AP) — Forecasters say a tropical storm warning has been issued for Bermuda as Jose moves over the Atlantic Ocean. The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Jose was about 75 miles (121 kilometers) southwest of Bermuda on Sunday morning with maximum sustained winds of about 40 mph (64 kph). The storm was moving [...]

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