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Patricia Brett, Global warming opens Arctic seabed to the search for oil and gas, IHT, 2007 Oct. 30 (as the ice retreats, nations try to advance their undersea borders and resource claims)
Rebecca Morelle, Explorers' quest for key ice data, BBC, 2007 Oct. 16 (a team of explorers will head to the Arctic this winter to measure the thickness of the ever shrinking sea ice)
Glenn Morris, Arctic voice drowning in climatic shift, BBC, 2007 Oct. 15 (it is time for the industrialised world to change its behaviour before the Arctic, its people and its wildlife are lost forever)
David Shukman, Ice melt raises passage tension, BBC, 2007 Oct. 8 (in a sign of potential friction in a warming Arctic, Canada says it will step up patrols of the North West Passage)
AP, Displaced walruses alarm scientists, The Age, 2007 Oct. 8 (thousands of walruses have appeared on Alaska's north-west coast in what conservationists are calling a dramatic consequence of global warming melting the Arctic sea ice)
Paul Brown, Melting ice cap brings diamond hunters and hopes of independence to Greenland, Guardian, 2007 Oct. 4 (Arctic Ministers hope potential mineral wealth and hydro-electricity will allow nation to break free from Denmark)
Andrew C Revkin, Retreating Ice: A blue Arctic Ocean in summers by 2013?, IHT, 2007 Oct. 1 (astonished by the summer's changes, scientists are studying the forces that exposed one million square miles of open water - six Californias - beyond the average since satellites started measurements in 1979)
David Shukman, Arctic ice island breaks in half, BBC, 2007 Oct. 1 (the giant Ayles Ice Island drifting off Canada's northern shores has broken in two - far earlier than expected)
Barney Zwartz, Anglican leader calls on Pell to step up for debate, The Age, 2007 Oct. 26 (Canberra Anglican Bishop George Browning challenges Sydney Archbishop George Pell to a debate on climate change, to be held in St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, complete with "ecological worm")
Josef Hebert, White House edits report on risks of climate change, The Age, 2007 Oct. 25 (the White House severely edited congressional testimony given yesterday by the director of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention on the effect of climate change on health, removing scientific references to potential health risks)
Juliette Jowit, Row erupts over risk to polar bears, Guardian, 2007 Oct. 14 (one of the most controversial voices in the global warming debate believes too much emphasis is put on extinction fears for ecology's poster animals)
Jamie Doward, Revealed: the man behind court attack on Gore film, Observer, 2007 Oct. 14 (fuel and mining magnate backed UK challenge to An Inconvenient Truth)
Mark Lynas, Comment: Science and politics collide, Guardian, 2007 Oct. 12 (the presence of a few errors in Al Gore's film should not undermine the thrust of his message)
Gore climate film's 'nine errors', BBC, 2007 Oct. 11 (a High Court judge who ruled on whether climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, could be shown in schools said it contains "nine scientific errors")
Misha Schubert, Pell, the sceptic, not convinced world is warmer, The Age, 2007 Oct. 4 (unbowed by overwhelming scientific opinion that climate change is fuelled by human activity, the most senior Catholic figure in Australia has looked to the heavens for an alternative theory; and he has found one that is truly out of this world)
Chee Chee Leung, Higher food costs tipped as winter crops fall, The Age, 2007 Oct. 30 (families may face higher food prices as the drought forces a further downgrade in forecasts for national winter crops, with Victoria's wheat production among the hardest hit)
Ben Schneiders, Prices set to soar for more foods, The Age, 2007 Oct. 26 (chicken and dairy are the next basic food items set to soar in price as the drought and world demand for food continues to put pressure on the cost of bare essentials in Australia)
Rose Elliot, How to survive the UK sprout drought, Guardian, 2007 Oct. 23 (sprouts, those stalwarts of the traditional British Christmas dinner, are the latest victims of the wet summer; the harvest is down by 15-20%, and they are likely to be both expensive and in short supply this winter)
Mathew Murphy, Eating roo could cut gas emissions, The Age, 2007 Oct. 11 ("Skippy" could soon be on the menu for the climate change-conscious if they take note of a report showing a switch from beef to kangaroo could help cut greenhouse gases)
PA, Pumpkin farms face horrible harvest, Guardian, 2007 Oct. 8 (pumpkins are in shorter supply than usual this Halloween because of the summer downpours)
Jesse Riseborough, Barley producer slashes profit as drought hurts, The Age, 2007 Oct. 5 (ABB Grain's full-year profit is as much as 74 per cent lower than earlier estimates because of the drought)
Ashley Seager, Food price inflation rising sharply, Guardian, 2007 Oct. 3 (surveys out today show that rising food costs are feeding through to higher prices on the high street, while take-home pay is slowing down)
George Monbiot, Comment: Civilisation ends with a shutdown of human concern. Are we there already?, Guardian, 2007 Oct. 30 (a powerful novel's vision of a dystopian future shines a cold light on the dreadful consequences of our universal apathy; The Road, Cormac McCarthy)
Alok Jha, Warming could wipe out half of all species, Guardian, 2007 Oct. 24 (rising global temperatures caused by climate change could trigger a huge extinction of plants and animals, says study)
Stephen Cauchi, The future looks, er, unclear ..., The Age, 2007 Oct. 7 (Melbourne and Victoria will be much drier in 30 years; or maybe wetter; or not)
Rachel Kleinman et al., Australia's parched future, The Age, 2007 Oct. 3 (as vast areas of rural Australia teeter on the brink of a devastating crop failure, a CSIRO report has predicted worse droughts to come)
Gerard Wright, Ill wind blows climate questions into town, The Age, 2007 Oct. 27 (California's fires are dying down, but debates about the future will rage on)
California's fires: The fires of October, Economist, 2007 Oct. 27 (Southern California has been horribly scorched, but the response to this disaster shows how the authorities have learned from Hurricane Katrina)
Randal C Archbold, California fires destroy hundreds of businesses and homes, IHT, 2007 Oct. 23 (raging wildfires in Southern California have destroyed an estimated 1,300 homes and businesses and forced as many as a half-million people to evacuate their homes)
Peter Seligmann, Seeing the carbon for the trees, BBC, 2007 Oct. 22 (a scheme to offer nations an economic incentive to protect tropical forests is vital in the battle against climate change)
AP, California wildfire poses threat to university and homes, IHT, 2007 Oct. 21 (a wildfire driven by powerful winds threatened a university and forced the evacuation of hundreds of homes in the Malibu Hills on Sunday)
Mark Poynter, Red gum lock-up is not the solution, The Age, 2007 Oct. 15 (it is not certain that the community and the environment will benefit from the simplistic conservation edict that all red gum forests must be encompassed in a national park)
Anthony Morgan, There's more than one way to save a Tasmanian wilderness, The Age, 2007 Oct. 14 (Greenies v Gunns are not the only sides of the forest debate)
Peru: Trade, timber and tribes, Economist, 2007 Oct. 6 (the Democrats in the United States take on the loggers in Peru)
Robert Wainwright, Half of all bushfires lit by arsonists, The Age, 2007 Oct. 5 (half the bushfires that will sweep Australia this summer are likely to be deliberately lit)
Guardian, World Bank in forest row, The Age, 2007 Oct. 5 (the World Bank encouraged foreign companies to destructively log the world's second largest forest, endangering the lives of thousands of Congolese Pygmies)
AFP, Plantings to make a point, The Age, 2007 Oct. 5 (Indonesia is aiming to plant about 79 million trees in a day-long event before a global climate change conference it will host in December)
Rory Carroll, Sighting of Amazon group bolsters environmentalist case, Guardian, 2007 Oct. 3 (hunter-gatherers seen in area sought by loggers; uncontacted people not 'absurd' after all)
Ian Sample, Amazon jungle could be lost in 40 years, say campaigners, Guardian, 2007 Oct. 2 (development threatens world's oldest rainforest; conservationists attack plans for transport routes)
Reuters and AP, Fuel shortages spread into central China, IHT, 2007 Oct. 31 (shortages in the country's political heart, which escaped previous supply crunches unscathed, highlight rising tensions between the government and its increasingly independent oil firms about who should pay for the generous fuel subsidies in China)
Patricia Brett, Global warming opens Arctic seabed to the search for oil and gas, IHT, 2007 Oct. 30 (as the ice retreats, nations try to advance their undersea borders and resource claims)
Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop, Planting seeds of biofuel where little else grows, IHT, 2007 Oct. 29 (amid soaring prices for traditional biofuel feedstock, including palm oil, the nuts from the perennial bush Jatropha Curcas are now being eyed as a possible sustainable alternative throughout South and Southeast Asia)
Biofuel a crime against humanity, The Age, 2007 Oct. 28 (a United Nations expert has condemned as a crime against humanity the use of crops to produce biofuels to replace petrol)
Andy Beckett, Deeper, rougher, further—in search of the last North Sea oil, Guardian, 2007 Oct. 27 (an exhausted North Sea may not be the end of Britain's oil story)
James Rose, China shows lead on industry policy, The Age, 2007 Oct. 27 (the West has much to learn on energy and climate change)
Andrew C Revkin, Global energy experts urge green energy options, IHT, 2007 Oct. 23 (Energy experts convened by the world's scientific academies Monday urged nations to shift swiftly away from coal and other fuels that are the main source of climate-warming greenhouse gases and to provide new energy options for the two billion people who still mostly cook in the dark on wood or dung fires)
John Vidal, Labour's plan to abandon renewable energy targets, Guardian, 2007 Oct. 23 (leaked documents detail strategy for climate change U-turn)
Valerie Rota and Patrick Harrington, Mexico, one of the world's biggest oil producers, is running out, IHT, 2007 Oct. 22 (the country holds proven reserves that could last only nine years)
Ashley Seager, Steep decline in oil production brings risk of war and unrest, Guardian, 2007 Oct. 22 (output peaked in 2006 and will fall 7% a year; decline in gas, coal and uranium also predicted)
Heather Stewart and Tim Webb, Fear of global slowdown as oil price soars, Observer, 2007 Oct. 21 (Opec under fire as US crude nears $100 a barrel)
Renewable energy in Alaska: Steam and surf in the far north, Economist, 2007 Oct. 13 (very promising is geothermal energy, since Alaska lies on the "ring of fire", a string of volcanoes that encircles the Pacific Ocean, and Alaska has 90% of the tidal potential in America and 50% of the wave potential)
Mark Shenk, Signs point to quarterly decline in oil, IHT, 2007 Oct. 8 (the widening gap between the cost of crude oil and the relatively low price of gasoline is signaling the first quarterly decline in oil prices in a year)
Jad Mouawad, Quest for new energy supplies is becoming tougher, IHT, 2007 Oct. 8 (for a quarter-century, energy executives were tantalized by vast quantities of natural gas in one of the world's most inhospitable places - off Norway's northern coast, beneath the Arctic Ocean)
Mathew Murphy, Smart meters may increase energy use, The Age, 2007 Oct. 5 (a proposed roll-out of energy smart meters may lead households to use more electricity rather than less, with economic modelling showing they can increase power use)
David Strahan, Slippery slope, Guardian, 2007 Oct. 3 (more and more oil executives maintain that there are just a few years left before production reaches its peak, and that we are sleepwalking into economic catastrophe)
Larry Elliott, Climate change cannot be bargained with, Guardian, 2007 Oct. 29 (our half-hearted measures are as dangerous as the 1930s appeasement of Hitler)
Martin Hodgson, Environmental failures 'put humanity at risk', Guardian, 2007 Oct. 26 (UN report bemoans lack of urgency by governments; five-year study involved more than 1,400 scientists)
Meeting to smooth path to Bali summit, The Age, 2007 Oct. 25 (officials from 40 countries are holding informal talks in Indonesia this week aimed at setting the stage for a global climate change summit on Bali later this year)
Ian Dunlop, Climate change is a war that we must fight, The Age, 2007 Oct. 23 (the planet's ability to absorb the impact of humans is at its limits)
Glenn Morris, Arctic voice drowning in climatic shift, BBC, 2007 Oct. 15 (it is time for the industrialised world to change its behaviour before the Arctic, its people and its wildlife are lost forever)
Rajendra Pauchari, The climate crisis for humanity, The Age, 2007 Oct. 15 (the least fortunate will be hurt the most by global warming)
Ashley Seager and David Gow, Britain accused of scuppering EU's renewable energy plan, Guardian, 2007 Oct. 13 (planned EU legislation to enforce a target of using renewable power to produce 20% of Europe's energy by 2020)
Alice Ritchie and Brendan Nicholson, Al Gore's Nobel prize is one for the globe, The Age, 2007 Oct. 13 (former US vice-president Al Gore, co-winner of this year's Nobel peace prize, has pledged to donate all his prizemoney to an organisation dedicated to tackling climate change)
Mark Landler, Nobel laureates feel validation on climate change, IHT, 2007 Oct. 11 (even if the Nobel committee passes over all the candidates who have worked on issues related to climate change, there was a bracing sense here in Potsdam that public opinion had finally caught up with science on the topic)
AP, Biofuels push to make more Kiwis fly, The Age, 2007 Oct. 12 (New Zealand wants to halve its transport greenhouse gas emissions by 2040, and generate 90 per cent of the nation's electricity supply from non-carbon renewable resources by 2025, Prime Minister Helen Clark says)
Rachel Wells, Fashion warms to reality of climate change, The Age, 2007 Oct. 7 (leading international fashion designers and industry experts say unpredictable and typically warmer weather worldwide is wreaking havoc on the industry)
Julian Borger, Climate change disaster is upon us, warns UN, Guardian, 2007 Oct. 5 (emergency relief coordinator calls for swift action; 12 out of 13 'flash' appeals in 2007 related to weather)
Roger Harrabin, Democrats eye key climate summit, BBC, 2007 Oct. 4 (US Democrats are planning to send a delegation to a key UN climate summit to rival the official White House team)
Lorna Edwards, Creepy critter crawls back from the brink, The Age, 2007 Oct. 4 (it is believed to be the world's rarest insect, but on Lord Howe Island the podgy prehistoric stick insects are fondly recalled as "land lobsters" or "walking sausages")
Peter Hannam, Poverty the greatest environmental threat: ex-WTO head, The Age, 2007 Oct. 25 (perverse government subsidies are contributing to the plundering of the world's environment, with collapsing fish stocks among the biggest problems, said Mike Moore, former head of the World Trade Organisation)
Andrew Darby, Japanese tuna scandal starts to bite, The Age, 2007 Oct. 24 (the multibillion-dollar Japanese southern bluefin tuna scandal is worsening under closer Australian Government scrutiny)
Rachel Kleinman, Warming turns Barrier Reef acidic, The Age, 2007 Oct. 18 (waters around the Great Barrier Reef are becoming acidic at a higher-than-expected rate)
Maritime disputes: The lobster wars, Economist, 2007 Oct. 13 (at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy between Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick lies a sparsely vegetated 20-acre rock called Machias Seal Island; this place, a nesting ground for the Atlantic puffin, is also at the centre of a long-rumbling border dispute between America and Canada)
Ewen MacAskill, Rebuild or retreat: US debates evacuation of Gulf coastline, Guardian, 2007 Oct. 11 (another Katrina cannot be prevented, plan concludes; cash earmarked to buy up 17,000 Mississippi houses)
Juliette Jowit, Planners rely on citizen jury for green verdicts, Observer, 2007 Oct. 28 (a citizens' jury will help choose the final design for 10 new eco-towns to be built across England)
Reuters, Saving the the world, one bomber at a time, The Age, 2007 Oct. 28 (by early 2011, the US Air Force aims to make sure its fleet of bombers, fighters, transports and other aircraft can use a domestically produced 50-50 blend of synthetic and petroleum-based fuel)
Angelique Chrisafis, Sarkozy puts France on green track, Guardian, 2007 Oct. 26 (old-style light bulbs and single glazing to be banned; carbon tax and nuclear question bypassed)
Alok Jha, Facing down the heat, Guardian, 2007 Oct. 24 (his brief includes foot-and-mouth disease, and GM foods; but as the government's chief environmental scientist, Robert Watson's number one priority is the fight against climate change)
James Kanter, The 'Craggers' of Britain blaze a low-tech trail to low-carbon life, The Age, 2007 Oct. 22 (Jacqueline Sheedy has turned the former coal barge where she lives into a shrine to energy efficiency)
Adam Morton, An idea not to be sniffed at, The Age, 2007 Oct. 19 (the toilet-cum-basin is one of more than 120 water and energy-saving devices on show in Melbourne this weekend, part of Australia's first Save Water Save Energy Expo at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre)
Denise Gadd, Green thumbs pursue a sustainable passion, The Age, 2007 Oct. 13 (concerned about climate change, lack of rain and tough water restrictions, Di David took the radical step six months ago of ripping out her lush, cottage garden and replacing it with a more self-sustaining landscape)
Kenneth Davidson, The time has come for drastic action, The Age, 2007 Oct. 11 (living as we did in the 1950s may save the Earth and us)
Mathew Murphy, Eating roo could cut gas emissions, The Age, 2007 Oct. 11 ("Skippy" could soon be on the menu for the climate change-conscious if they take note of a report showing a switch from beef to kangaroo could help cut greenhouse gases)
Robin McKie and Juliette Jowit, Focus: Can science really save the world?, Observer, 2007 Oct. 7 (endless treaties to cut carbon emissions and halt global warming have failed to turn the tide of pollution; now scientists want to intervene on a planetary scale, changing the very nature of our seas and skies; ahead of a major report on 'geo-engineering' we reveal the six big ideas that could change the face of the Earth)
Anthony Pratt, How recycling can be a weapon against global warming, The Age, 2007 Oct. 5 (here's a simple way to take cars off the road and turn waste into energy)
Royce Millar, Call to build homes around stations, The Age, 2007 Oct. 4 (property and developer groups have called on the State Government to take more decisive action to free land around stations and to cut planning and development costs and delays)
Ashley Seager, Red tape and cuts see householders give up on green grants, MP says, Guardian, 2007 Oct. 1 (cash for schemes like solar power not being claimed; maximum subsidy for each project 'too low')
Philip Hopkins, Green future for plastics, The Age, 2007 Oct. 1 (Australia's $24 billion plastics and chemical sector, feeling threatened by water and climate change issues, has embarked on a strategy to ensure it has a sustainable future)
Marian Wilkinson and Mark Forbes, UN report exposes 'unprecedented' degradation, The Age, 2007 Oct. 26 (the most authoritative scientific report on the planet's health has found that water, land, air, plants, animals and fish are all in "inexorable decline")
'Unexpected growth' in CO2 found, BBC, 2007 Oct. 23 (carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have risen 35% faster than expected since 2000, says a study)
Oceans are 'soaking up less CO2', BBC, 2007 Oct. 20 (scientists say there has been a worrying drop in the amount of CO2 soaked up by the world's oceans)
Tim Shipman, Science to get wind of change, The Age, 2007 Oct. 22 (scientists make a breakthrough in man's desire to control the forces of nature—unveiling plans to weaken hurricanes and steer them off course)
'Warm wind' hits Arctic climate, BBC, 2007 Oct. 18 (the Arctic is being hit by melting ice, hotter air and dying wildlife, a US report on the impact of global warming says)
David Shukman, Arctic muds reveal sea ice record, BBC, 2007 Oct. 15 (a new technique to track the extent of Arctic sea ice over the past 1,000 years is being developed by a UK team)
Warmth makes the world more humid, BBC, 2007 Oct. 10 (human-induced climate change is making the air more humid, with implications for weather globally)
Butterflies used to check climate, BBC, 2007 Oct. 8 (butterflies and moths are to be used to help monitor the state of the environment)
Metop sees Antarctic ozone 'hole', BBC, 2007 Oct. 5 (Europe's new Metop satellite reveals the extent of ozone thinning over Antarctica; at its worst in late September, the hole was twice as big as Europe)
David Adam, How old masters are helping study of global warming, Guardian, 2007 Oct. 1 (paintings of striking sunsets show effect of huge volcanic eruptions on climate)
Jo Chandler, How serious are we about global warming?, The Age, 2007 Oct. 27 (it's the issue that will determine the fate of our planet, but environmentalists and experts say the main parties have failed to grasp the gravity of the situation)
Rachel Kleinman, Concern as Government stitches up details of Bass Coast land grab, The Age, 2007 Oct. 27 (burteaucrats are finalising a land grab that will forge the way for the state's desalination plant, while the Government's commitment to an environmental effects statement remains in doubt)
Nick Sheridan, renewed belief in a green economy, The Age, 2007 Oct. 20 (a shift in attitudes convinced David Shapero to make the leap into the renewable energy industry himself with the establishment of his company Future Energy Limited in 2003)
Anthony Morgan, There's more than one way to save a Tasmanian wilderness, The Age, 2007 Oct. 14 (Greenies v Gunns are not the only sides of the forest debate)
Meg Mundell, Fear of a dry planet, The Age, 2007 Oct. 7 (it has taken Australia a long time to realise that the water situation is dire; now we're running scared)
Australia's farmers: Dried up, washed out, fed up, Economist, 2007 Oct. 6 (an inaccurate weather forecast brings disaster for many)
Matt Ruchel, Red gums are not just a green issue, The Age, 2007 Oct. 5 (Premier Brumby's failure to protect the Murray's trees is poor economic policy)
Tim Flannery, How we can save ourselves, The Age, 2007 Oct. 4 (Australia can do something about climate change, but we must act now)
Marian Wilkinson, Councils warned on climate change, The Age, 2007 Oct. 4 (local governments will need to take a big role in helping Australia cope with climate change, Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull warns)
Rachel Kleinman et al., Australia's parched future, The Age, 2007 Oct. 3 (as vast areas of rural Australia teeter on the brink of a devastating crop failure, a CSIRO report has predicted worse droughts to come)
Juliette Jowit, Row erupts over risk to polar bears, Guardian, 2007 Oct. 14 (one of the most controversial voices in the global warming debate believes too much emphasis is put on extinction fears for ecology's poster animals)
AP, Displaced walruses alarm scientists, The Age, 2007 Oct. 8 (thousands of walruses have appeared on Alaska's north-west coast in what conservationists are calling a dramatic consequence of global warming melting the Arctic sea ice)
Stephen Cauchi, Grim tidings for storages, The Age, 2007 Oct. 28 (Melbourne's water storages, which have recovered strongly from their low point of 28 per cent in mid-June, are expected to dip below 40 per cent this week)
Drought: The parched country, Economist, 2007 Oct. 27 (America's south-east has been wracked by more than a year without much rain)
Shaila Dewan and Brenda Goodman, New to being dry, south U.S struggles to adapt, IHT, 2007 Oct. 23 (the response to the worst drought on record in the Southeast has unfolded in ultra-slow motion)
Fernanda Santos, As Great Lakes shrink, cargo carriers worry, IHT, 2007 Oct. 23 (water levels in the Great Lakes are falling; Lake Ontario, for example, is about 7 inches, or 18 centimeters, below where it was a year ago)
Reuters, Water shortage pushes China toward aerobic rice production, IHT, 2007 Oct. 23 (China, the world's top consumer and producer of rice, is turning to a new kind of rice that can grow on dry soil like wheat as the country faces a serious water shortage due to industrialization and global warming)
Peter Hannam, Water the new oil as the rush is on, The Age, 2007 Oct. 22 (if water is "blue oil", then the industry may be at the start of a wildcatters' rush)
Jason Dowling, Water dilemma could 'sink' Government, The Age, 2007 Oct. 21 (due to the drought, the State Government has no choice but to urge households to limit their water use)
Jason Dowling, How low can our water bank go?, The Age, 2007 Oct. 21 (Melbourne's water storages fall for the first time in more than four months, raising concerns about water security over summer)
Jon Gertner, Is economic development in danger of drying up?, IHT, 2007 Oct. 20 (diminished supplies of fresh water might prove a far more serious problem than slowly rising seas)
Brenda Goodman, U.S. Southeast reaches most severe category of drought, IHT, 2007 Oct. 16 (for the first time in more than 100 years, much of the southeastern United States has reached the most severe category of drought, climatologists said, creating an emergency so serious that some cities are just months away from running out of water)
Orietta Guerrera, Drought keeps Murray water quality under stress, The Age, 2007 Oct. 5 (the latest drought update by the Murray Darling Basin Commission shows increasing water quality problems along the Murray River)
John Langford, There are alternatives to our wasteful use of water, The Age, 2007 Oct. 3 (our water shortage will become dire, but it does present opportunities)
Orietta Guerrera, No water savings in Goulburn pipeline's first year, The Age, 2007 Oct. 2 (the first water to flow to Melbourne from the Goulburn Valley via the controversial north-south pipeline will come from existing savings and reserves)
Andra Jackson, Dry, hot, windy ... and it's still spring, The Age, 2007 Oct. 29 (elderly residents had to be evacuated from a Brunswick hostel yesterday after a factory wall collapsed on the facility as gales lashed Melbourne)
Stephen Moss, And now, the weather forecast with swans Dario and Dorcus, Guardian, 2007 Oct. 24 (thanks to a pair of swans, we know we're in for a hard winter)
Mark Kinver, Lessons learned from Great Storm, BBC, 2007 Oct. 14 (the Met Office says improved forecasts and technology mean its failures in 1987 are unlikely to be repeated)
Joe McDonald, Asian storms leave dozens dead, Guardian, 2007 Oct. 8 (a storm drenched south-east China after killing five people on Taiwan and prompting the evacuation of 1.4 million people)
Tom Kington, Storms blamed for Venice's falling masonry, Guardian, 2007 Oct. 1 (freak rainstorms are blamed for bringing chunks of masonry crashing down from landmark palaces)