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Rebecca Morelle, Ice expedition tests 'successful', BBC, 2007 Nov. 8 (the first tests on hi-tech equipment that will be used to provide key data on the current state of Arctic ice are successful)
Rebecca Morelle, Parrotfish to aid reef repair, BBC, 2007 Nov. 1 (a vividly coloured tropical fish could be the key to saving Caribbean's coral reefs from plummeting into terminal decline, scientists claim)
Howard W French, Far from Beijing's reach, officials bend energy rules, IHT, 2007 Nov. 24 (Chinese officials have a long tradition of spearheading ambitious nationwide campaigns that are all too often thwarted at the local level, partly because local priorities clash with national ones)
Ed Pilkington, Water park planned for Arizona desert, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 21 (drought-hit Phoenix will play host to Lost Coast, with developers offering year round watersports)
Mark Milner, UK steelmakers lobby for opt out on tougher emission limits, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 19 (Britain's steelmakers are lobbying the government and the European commission for the industry to be given special treatment within the European Union's emissions trading scheme)
David Hencke and John Vidal, Climate change department faces £300 million cuts, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 17 (recycling and nature protection hit as calls for tougher measures on carbon)
Leo Hickman, Comment: Cry wolf, but gently, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 10 (hyperbole has weakened the argument on climate change; but Aesop has a salutary lobbyist's tale)
Ian Sample, Brown must embrace GM crops to head off food crisis - chief scientist, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 28 (outgoing adviser calls for a green revolution; nuclear power also crucial to cut emissions, he says)
Katherine Kizilos, Where the wild things are, The Age, 2007 Nov. 28 (one person's weeds are another's gourmet lunch; there's plenty of bush tucker to be found in your neighbourhood if you know where to look)
Tom Kington, Italian mongrel leads owner to record-breaking truffle, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 26 (crowds gather for sniff of biggest find in 50 years; delicacy flown to Macau for charity auction)
Teena Lyons, Price of a pint 'could rise 60%', Guardian, 2007 Nov. 20 (average price of a pint of beer could hit £4 after poor weather forced up the price of hops)
Alok Jha, GM plants that produce fish oils could help fight heart disease, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 16 (omega-3 could be added to diet via animal feed; plan would help conserve fish stocks, say scientists)
Les Firbank, Sowing the seeds of farming's future, BBC, 2007 Nov. 12 (global food stocks are running low and rich nations should not take security of supplies for granted)
Nick Mathiason, PM orders probe into security of food supply, Observer, 2007 Nov. 11 (Gordon Brown has launched a wide-ranging investigation into the security of Britain's food supply amid fears that the era of cheap prices is coming to an end)
Juliette Jowit, Why eating less meat could cut global warming, Observer, 2007 Nov. 11 (what you choose to have for dinner can have a huge impact on the planet)
Kenneth Chang, Food 2.0: Chefs as chemists, IHT, 2007 Nov. 6 (chefs are using science not only to better understand their cooking, but also to create new ways of cooking; they've played with lasers and liquid nitrogen; restaurant kitchens are sometimes outfitted with equipment adapted from scientific laboratories; and then there are hydrocolloids that come in white bottles like chemicals)
John Vidal, And if the food runs out?, The Age, 2007 Nov. 4 (with climate change and biofuel production devastating the world's food supplies, millions of people are living on the knife edge of starvation)
Anne Davies, Ethanol's corn-fed famine, The Age, 2007 Nov. 3 (the US Government's ethanol drive may have boosted the fortunes of corn farmers, but rising production costs as well as food prices are hitting the world's poorest nations where it hurts)
Rebecca Smithers, Campaign launched to reduce UK's £8bn food waste mountain, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 2 (ignorant consumers urged to change their ways; study shows 6.7m tonnes a year is thrown away)
Larry Elliott and Ashley Seager, Crops hit, more water shortages, higher sea levels, bigger disease risk, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 28 (in its annual human development report, the UN said reductions of 60% in carbon emissions could still leave temperatures rising by 4-5C and leave carbon levels at 660-750 parts per million in the atmosphere, way above the 450ppm most experts believe is the Earth's safe limit and which would restrict global warming to 2C)
Cathy Heffernan, Researching death to save life, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 27 (a new centre for the study of genocide will tackle an evil that may be exacerbated by climate change)
Barrie Pittock, Warming puts heat on political leaders, The Age, 2007 Nov. 20 (there is a false sense that the short-term costs of climate change will be small)
Brian Aldiss, Comment: Our science fiction fate, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 19 (the planet's dire state makes the imaginative leaps of dystopian SF writers redundant)
Climate 'will undo Asian success', BBC, 2007 Nov. 19 (a warmer world will reverse decades of social and economic progress across Asia, a report claims)
Doug Struck, Experts warn of global disaster, The Age, 2007 Nov. 18 (global warming is destroying species, raising sea levels and threatening millions of poor people, the United Nations' top scientific panel said in a report yesterday)
Paul Hamilos, Spain shown perils of climate change, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 10 (it's an apocalyptic view of the future, a stark warning to Spain of the effects of climate change)
Energy needs 'to grow inexorably', BBC, 2007 Nov. 7 (global energy demands will "grow inexorably" if governments do not change their policies)
John Feeney, Humanity is the greatest challenge, BBC, 2007 Nov. 5 (it is time to take radical action to curb rising population and consumption levels, or face "unspeakable consequences")
Robin McKie, Climate wars threaten billions, Observer, 2007 Nov. 4 (more than 100 countries face political chaos and mass migration in global warming catastrophe)
Frederick Sagisolo, Forest protection: Local and global, BBC, 2007 Nov. 26 (a Papuan chief argues that local communities living in the world's dwindling tropical forests bear the brunt of the insatiable demand for cheap timber; he recounts his experience of illegal logging, and explains why community forest management is the way forward))
Philip Hopkins, 'Other' Tasmanian timber plant far from run-of-the-mill, The Age, 2007 Nov. 23 (Forest Enterprises Australia is building a sophisticated sawmill whose output of plantation sawn timber will double Gunns' native forest sawlog output in the state)
Andrew Pollack, Through genetics, tapping a tree's potential as a source of energy, IHT, 2007 Nov. 20 (a major goal is to reduce the amount of lignin, a chemical compound that interferes with efforts to turn the tree's cellulose into biofuels like ethanol)
Philip Hopkins, Carbon-credit forestry companies fears, The Age, 2007 Nov. 19 (planting trees to cut carbon is good science but there are risks)
Dan Harrison and Ari Sharp, Bushfire set to be water bombed, The Age, 2007 Nov. 18 (fire services will use water-bombing helicopters today to attack a blaze that threatens the catchment area around Melbourne's largest dam)
Adam Morton, Murray gums dying at a rate of knots, The Age, 2007 Nov. 14 (two new reports that paint a dire picture of the Murray River say 70 per cent of red gum forest on Australia's greatest waterway is in poor health and declining)
Palm oil warning for Indonesia, BBC, 2007 Nov. 8 (land clearances in Indonesia to cultivate palm oil threaten a "climate bomb", Greenpeace warns)
Mark Forbes, Timber baron acquitted over illegal logging, The Age, 2007 Nov. 7 (in the latest and most significant case in a string of controversial acquittals, an Indonesian timber baron has walked away from illegal logging charges, prompting an outcry from environmentalists)
David Strahan, Comment: $100 oil: the terrible truth, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 24 (nearing the price barrier is a pointer to the peak of output, and the crisis the powerful want to ignore)
Keith Guy, Powering up for a hydrogen economy, BBC, 2007 Nov. 19 (it is time to turn the theory of a global hydrogen economy in a reality because fossil fuels are not going to last forever)
Tim Webb, Can Saudi square the oil circle?, Observer, 2007 Nov. 18 (the world's largest oil producer could soon find itself over a barrel)
Patrick Wintour, Brown's drive to use UK's wave and wind power, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 17 (Gordon Brown will next week reveal he has rejected a Whitehall attempt to abandon the government commitment to supply a fifth of British energy needs from renewables by 2020)
Roger Harrabin, Biofuels bonanza facing 'crash', BBC, 2007 Nov. 15 (the biofuels bonanza will crash unless producers show their crops are produced responsibly, a UN chief warns)
Peter Hannam, Korea to invest billions in renewable power sources, The Age, 2007 Nov. 12 (already the world's biggest shipbuilder, second-largest steel producer and ranked fifth among car makers, Korea is making a very big push into renewable energy; one reason is that it relies on energy imports for 97 per cent of its needs)
Jad Mouawad, Rising global demand for oil provoking new energy crisis, IHT, 2007 Nov. 9 (today's surge is fundamentally different from the previous oil crises, with broad and longer-lasting global implications)
John Vidal, Big food companies accused of risking climate catastrophe, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 8 (rush to palm oil and biofuels threatens to release 14 billion tonnes of carbon from Indonesia's peatlands)
Energy needs 'to grow inexorably', BBC, 2007 Nov. 7 (global energy demands will "grow inexorably" if governments do not change their policies)
George Monbiot, Comment: The western appetite for biofuels is causing starvation in the poor world, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 6 (developing nations are being pushed to grow crops for ethanol, rather than food - all thanks to political expediency)
Leader, Crude economics: Energy prices, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 5 (the world needs to use less carbon-based fuel and find other sources of energy; putting the price up steeply is one way to encourage this shift)
Robin McKie, New 'disaster' movie warns world of oil apocalypse, Observer, 2007 Nov. 4 (the latest gloves-off documentary to hit screens predicts a global meltdown as vital fuel runs out)
Anne Davies, Ethanol's corn-fed famine, The Age, 2007 Nov. 3 (the US Government's ethanol drive may have boosted the fortunes of corn farmers, but rising production costs as well as food prices are hitting the world's poorest nations where it hurts)
John M Broder, Role playing a nightmare scenario for U.S. energy policy, IHT, 2007 Nov. 2 (two bipartisan business-supported groups sponsored an elaborately staged role-playing game called Oil ShockWave that tried to dramatize the effect of American dependence on oil imported from unstable and unfriendly parts of the world)
David Hirst, Memo Mr President: get tough on the black-gold cowboys, The Age, 2007 Nov. 1 (opportunists, not Middle-Eastern turmoil or peak oil, are driving up oil prices)
Business call for plan on climate, BBC, 2007 Nov. 30 (firms such as Nike, Tesco and Nokia call for a legally binding international deal on climate change)
Nicholas Stern, Comment: Bali: now the rich must pay, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 30 (a fair and global effort to tackle climate change needs wealthy states to take the lead in CO2 cuts)
David Adam, Climate chief calls for 80% cuts in greenhouse gas, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 30 (Sir Nicholas Stern, the government adviser on the economics of climate change and development, has urged nations to agree on ambitious reductions in greenhouse gas emissions or face the "destructive" consequences of global warming)
Andrew C Revkin, UN warns of climate-related setbacks, IHT, 2007 Nov. 28 (a new United Nations report warns that progress toward prosperity in the world's poorest regions will be reversed unless rich countries promptly begin curbing emissions linked to global warming while also helping poorer ones leapfrog to energy sources that pollute less than coal and oil)
Larry Elliott and Ashley Seager, Cut carbon by up to third to save poor, UN tells west, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 28 (Britain singled out for lack of ambition and delays on renewable energy sources)
David Adam, Rich nations fail to honour climate pledge, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 24 (poor countries receive little of promised £600m intended to tackle effects of global warming)
Celestine Bohlen, Why the French lag in renewable energy, IHT, 2007 Nov. 20 (a biofuel facility to treat waste and generate electricity is in limbo, stymied by a slow-moving bureaucracy and French dependence on nuclear plants)
Patrick Wintour, Brown sets tough targets for reducing carbon, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 20 (UK prime minister's first environment speech warns of hard choices ahead if he is to meet cuts)
Tim Webb, Divided Opec unites in qualified concern for planet, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 19 (Opec calls on rich countries to help oil-producing countries reduce their emissions)
Mark Milner, Climate change will destroy Asia's gains, study says, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 19 (global warming will send Asia's social and economic progress into reverse unless immediate action is taken to tackle climate change)
Dan Milmo, We'll fight you all the way, airlines warn EU over carbon-trading plans, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 19 (aviation industry says 170 countries oppose move; US threatens trade dispute and backs role of UN body)
Elisabeth Rosenthal and James Kanter, Alarming UN report on climate change too rosy, many say, IHT, 2007 Nov. 18 (the blunt and alarming final report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released here by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, may well underplay the problem of climate change, many experts and even the report's authors admit)
Richard Black, UN challenges states on warming, BBC, 2007 Nov. 17 (UN chief Ban Ki-moon challenges governments to act on the findings of a major report on climate change)
David Adam, UN scientists urge carbon tax to fight global warming, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 17 (temperatures may rise 6C by 2100, says panel; report marks effort to find post-Kyoto consensus)
Climate change: Green protectionism, Economist, 2007 Nov. 17 (a dangerous flaw in a bill to control carbon emissions; a provision that would turn the fight against climate change into a tool for protectionists)
Charles Clover, Vital facts 'deleted' from UN report on climate change, The Age, 2007 Nov. 14 (a major United Nations report on climate change has been watered down as a result of influence from government officials from countries opposed to taking radical action)
Juan Jose Lagorio, UN chief presses for climate action, The Age, 2007 Nov. 12 (with prehistoric Antarctic ice sheets melting beneath his feet, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for urgent political action to tackle global warming)
Climate bill's 60% emission cut, BBC, 2007 Nov. 6 (Gordon Brown commits the UK to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 60% before 2050 to help tackle climate change)
The UN and climate change: The icy road to Bali, Economist, 2007 Nov. 3 (the UN's quiet new boss is hoping that his eco-tour of the southern hemisphere will concentrate minds on the planet's travails)
Ross Gittins, Developed countries can lead on emissions targets, The Age, 2007 Nov. 3 (rich nations must lead the way in setting targets if they want China and others to follow)
US mayors meet on climate change, BBC, 2007 Nov. 2 (more than 100 US mayors attend a summit in Seattle to share policies aimed at tackling climate change)
Stephen Cauchi, These flies! Will mozzies be next?, The Age, 2007 Nov. 25 (flies have descended on Victoria in great numbers—and mosquitoes could be next)
Chee Chee Leung, Buzz off, The Age, 2007 Nov. 20 (we can blame the cattle of NSW but those pesky flies are just part of the environment and aren't about to fly away)
Yuko Narushima, Imperilled seahorse finds sanctuary in Sydney Harbour, The Age, 2007 Nov. 14 (the release of the herd into net-protected waters at Manly Cove was a first for Australian marine scientists who are researching ways to boost seahorse numbers in areas where their stocks are depleted)
'Nature's banks' pays dividends, BBC, 2007 Nov. 30 (marine reserves, co-managed by local communities, can help alleviate the impact of poverty, a study suggests)
Tahmina Anam, The fatal shore, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 24 (Cyclone Sidr is Bangladesh's latest disaster; Anam describes how it is succumbing to global warming)
Marine biology: The long haul, Economist, 2007 Nov. 24 (another reason why infant dolphins need their mothers)
Anna-Marie Lever, US wants freeze on tuna fishing, BBC, 2006 Nov. 17 (the US calls for a temporary ban on bluefin tuna fishing in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea)
Cameron Houston and Clay Lucas, Climate change 'serious threat' to coastal towns, The Age, 2007 Nov. 9 (climate change poses a "real and serious threat" to Victoria's 2000-kilometre coastline, according to a State Government report)
Andrew Darby, Rush is on to harvest an untapped bounty, The Age, 2007 Nov. 5 (industrial fishing companies are gearing up for the rush to exploit the great untapped seafood: Antarctic krill)
Matthew L Wald, Study details how U.S. could cut 28% of greenhouse gases, IHT, 2007 Nov. 30 (a large share of the reductions could come from steps that would more than pay for themselves in lower energy bills for industries and individual consumers)
Naomi Klein, Comment: Forget the green technology - the hot money is in guns, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 30 (far from saving us from catastrophe, the market is developing fortresses to shield the haves from the victims of the future)
Homes 'can cut CO2 by up to 80%', BBC, 2007 Nov. 27 (carbon dioxide emissions from UK homes could be cut by up to 80% by 2050, a report by Oxford University suggests)
Ben Verwaayen, Comment: Everyone's business, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 26 (for the price of a cup of cappuccino a week, we can have growth and a sustainable future)
Leader, Climate change: Serious business, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 26 (it is only by replacing narrow self-interest with the enlightened variety, that humans stand any chance of dealing with climate change)
Nick Mead, Michelin's Shanghai surprises, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 16 (where 20 years ago Shanghai's streets were full of bicycles, the car is now king and it is choking the city; where better for Michelin to host its annual eco-car contest?)
Peter Hannam, Cyclones could blow in stronger build codes, The Age, 2007 Nov. 19 (building codes may be stiffened after the middle of next year if new data indicates tropical cyclones may be strengthening and moving further south)
Ruth Williams, Look beyond cuts in emissions: Ziggy, The Age, 2007 Nov. 16 (Australia is better off finding scientific solutions to global warming than chasing big reductions in its emissions, nuclear physicist and former Telstra chief Ziggy Switkowski said last night)
Suzanne Goldenberg, US edges towards cap on greenhouse gases, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 2 (Senate subcommittee vote defies Bush policy; public support growing for action on global warming)
Better ocean monitoring 'vital', BBC, 2007 Nov. 25 (warming seas, overfishing and pollution mean it is vital to improve the system for monitoring the world's oceans, says a group of distinguished scientists)
Chee Chee Leung, Breath of a long, hot and fiery summer in the air, The Age, 2007 Nov. 23 (in most of Victoria, there is a 70% chance of above-normal temperatures, and on the south-west coast, from Cape Otway to Portland, there is a 60% chance of drier-than-average conditions)
James Kanter, Greenhouse gases at near-record levels in 2005, IHT, 2007 Nov. 20 (among the nations responsible for the rising trend was the United States and a number of former Soviet bloc countries that advanced economically without restraining their pollution levels)
Peter Hannam, Global warming sizzling at a red-hot pace, The Age, 2007 Nov. 15 (the latest scientific research indicates global warming is happening faster than recent United Nations reports projected, while China and India's rapid economic growth means carbon emissions are rising quicker than expected, a Labor-backed panel into climate change has heard)
Rebecca Morelle, Ice expedition tests 'successful', BBC, 2007 Nov. 8 (the first tests on hi-tech equipment that will be used to provide key data on the current state of Arctic ice are successful)
Tim Colebatch, Climate worse than we thought, The Age, 2007 Nov. 30 (climate change is already more advanced than the world realises, and tackling it will present "diabolical" policy challenges, says the head of Labor's climate change review, Professor Ross Garnaut)
Adam Morton, Australia third worst of world's polluters, The Age, 2007 Nov. 28 (if the rest of the world emitted carbon gases at the same per person rate as Australia, its population would need seven planets to sustain the pollution, according to a damning United Nations report)
Royce Millar, Rural Australians to pay price for climate change, The Age, 2007 Nov. 27 (drought-stricken rural communities are among those to bear the biggest brunt of an estimated annual $17 billion bill for climate change in Australia)
Adam Morton and Jewel Topsfield, Poll spotlight on climate, The Age, 2007 Nov. 19 (a stark United Nations report painting a picture of rising hardship and species extinction has undermined the Coalition and Labor's credibility on climate change as the election campaign enters its final week)
Anne Davies and Adam Morton, World record to power industry, The Age, 2007 Nov. 15 (Australia's power industry highest polluting per capita: research)
Jewel Topsfield, Farmers lash Coalition for lack of vision, The Age, 2007 Nov. 14 (farmers, traditionally staunch allies of the Coalition, have criticised its agriculture policy, claiming it lacks vision on the critical areas of drought, climate change and water)
Michelle Grattan, Rudd's $500m climate strategy, The Age, 2007 Nov. 14 (Kevin Rudd will promise a $500 million fund to help develop and commercialise renewable energy, in a campaign launch today targeting education, climate change and the Prime Minister's retirement)
Carmel Egan and Jason Dowling, Rain drain - secret Snowy water grab, The Age, 2007 Nov. 4 (water meant to safeguard Victoria's electricity supplies has been traded off to NSW rice growers in secret multimillion-dollar deals with the Snowy Hydro corporation)
Royce Millar, Treasurer faces fight over pipeline, The Age, 2007 Nov. 2 (the Victorian Government will try to head off a local government rebellion against one of its major drought initiatives: piping water from the Goulburn River over the Dividing Range to Melbourne)
Tim Colebatch and Jewel Topsfield, Australia scores badly on emissions growth report, The Age, 2007 Nov. 1 (Australia is the ninth biggest contributor to increased global carbon emissions, a new World Bank report has found)
Lorna Edwards, Death of lakes dolphins raises alarm, The Age, 2007 Nov. 27 (scientists are concerned about a spate of dolphin deaths in the Gippsland Lakes and the appearance of mystery skin lesions since the June floods)
Jessica Aldred, Smallest species joins other bears on red list, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 13 (the sun bear included on the red list of threatened species for the first time, according to the World Conservation Union)
Randal C Archbold, From sewage, added water for drinking, IHT, 2007 Nov. 27 (on Nov. 30, for millions of people in Orange County, California, pulling the toilet lever will be the start of a long, intense process to purify the sewage into drinking water—after a hard scrubbing with filters, screens, chemicals and ultraviolet light and the passage of time underground)
Daniella Miletic, Steady as she flows, heavy rain boosts reserves, The Age, 2007 Nov. 22 (the rain that eased a parched Victoria was not so much heavy as it was steady. But it was enough to take some pressure off firefighters, helping crews contain two large bushfires in the state's north-west)
Ed Pilkington, Water park planned for Arizona desert, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 21 (drought-hit Phoenix will play host to Lost Coast, with developers offering year round watersports)
Royce Millar, Small farms face cull in water plan, The Age, 2007 Nov. 21 (farms in Victoria's largest irrigation region will be more than halved under the State Government's $1 billion infrastructure upgrade)
Jim Yardley, Chinese dam projects criticized for their human costs, IHT, 2007 Nov. 19 (dams are clean producers of electricity, but they have displaced millions of people in China and carved a stark environmental legacy on the landscape)
Orietta Guerrera, Farmers fear call for wider pipeline, The Age, 2007 Nov. 14 (Melbourne water companies have called on the State Government to consider enlarging the pipe that will send water from the Goulburn Valley to the city)
Royce Millar, Drought hitting rural councils, The Age, 2007 Nov. 14 (drought is hitting bush services and infrastructure hard, with 16 of Victoria's 20 most cash-strapped councils in drought-stricken areas)
Tom Leonard, Dry hamlet raises spectre of US running out of water, The Age, 2007 Nov. 12 (Orme, a former mining town in Tennessee that has always relied on water from a mountain spring, has dried up with a severity that has stunned America)
Dead fish fear for Yarra, Dead fish fear for Yarra, The Age, 2007 Nov. 12 (fish deaths on a "huge scale" and heavy pollution may occur if the Yarra River is denied further environmental flows)
Jason Dowling, Desal plant millions set to flow offshore, The Age, 2007 Nov. 4 (hundreds of millions of dollars of Victorian water profits will flow overseas because no local companies are capable of building and running Victoria's $3.1 billion desalination plant)
Peter Weekes, Soaring prices to roast festive season, The Age, 2007 Nov. 4 (the drought is set to make its presence felt this festive season; prices of everything from beer to turkey are expected to soar)
Rachel Kleinman, Melbourne rainfall hits record low, The Age, 2007 Nov. 3 (Melbourne has received less than 3000 millimetres of rain in the past six years, a record low that highlights the severity of the state's drought)
AP, Bush vetoes a bill authorizing popular water projects, IHT, 2007 Nov. 2 (Bush brushed aside significant objections from Capitol Hill, even from Republicans, in thwarting legislation that provides money for projects like repairing hurricane damage, restoring wetlands and preventing flooding in communities across the nation)
Dylan Welch, Water saving dispute leads to murder charge, The Age, 2007 Nov. 2 (Ken Proctor was watering his large front lawn when a passerby allegedly accused him of violating water restrictions)
Daniella Miletic, Daniella Miletic, The Age, 2007 Nov. 19 (the weekend's wild weather broke no records, but lightning strikes and soaring temperatures did fuel the bushfire threat)
Reuters, Bangladesh cyclone toll tops 500, The Age, 2007 Nov. 17 (severe cyclone kills more than 500 people in Bangladesh and leaves thousands injured or missing)
David Adam, Exceptional tidal surge puts east coast on emergency alert, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 9 (thousands of people on the east coast of England prepare to evacuate their homes following Environment Agency's severe flood warnings; Cobra meets to prepare for breach in flood defences; 'extreme danger to life and property' warning)
Jo Tuckman, Fears grow for 150,000 people as flood chaos hits Mexico, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 1 (tens of thousands of people have fled to shelters in south-eastern Mexico after the worst floods in living memory hit the area)