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Reuters, Record Arctic ice melt causes alarm, The Age, 2007 Sep. 21 (sea ice over the Arctic has shrunk to its smallest known area, shattering a record set in 2005 and continuing a trend spurred by human-caused global warming)
Andrew C Revkin, Scientists observe record melting of Arctic Ocean ice cap, IHT, 2007 Sep. 21 (the cap of floating sea ice on the Arctic Ocean, which retreats in summer's warmth, shrank this year more than a million square miles below the average minimum area reached in recent decades)
Warming 'opens Northwest Passage', BBC, 2007 Sep. 14 (the most direct shipping route from Europe to Asia is fully clear of ice for the first time since records began, the European Space Agency says)
David A Fahrenthold, Bears will die as habitat melts, The Age, 2007 Sep. 9 (two-thirds of the world's polar bears could die out over the next 50 years, as warmer weather melts away the thick sheets of sea ice, according to studies released by the US Geological Survey)
Paul Brown, Melting ice cap triggering earthquakes, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 8 (estimates of sea-level rise out of date, say scientists; religious leaders pray for planet at Greenland glacier)
Alister Doyle, Flowers in the land of midnight sun, The Age, 2007 Sep. 6 (Elisabeth Iversen's sunflowers are probably the closest ever grown to the North Pole)
David Adam, Ice-free Arctic could be here in 23 years, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 5 (ice cap collapsed at unprecedented rate this summer, leaving sea ice levels at record low)
John Llewellyn, In a confusing climate, I think the scientists are probably right, Observer, 2007 Sep. 2 (what are the potential consequences of climate change on global business?)
Nabila Ahmed and Sarah Smiles, Meat, vegetable prices to skyrocket soon, The Age, 2007 Sep. 29 (Australians have been warned vegetable prices could skyrocket to four times their normal levels this summer, with the cost of some fruits and meat also on the rise as the country grapples with the worst drought on record)
Tim Colebatch, Agriculture to be hit hard by climate change, The Age, 2007 Sep. 20 (climate change, if left unchecked, stands to reduce Australia's agricultural productivity by up to 27 per cent over the next 75 years, a study estimates)
Peter Weekes, Make or break time for harvest, The Age, 2007 Sep. 16 (country and city people alike should be praying for the heavens to deliver rain - and save the nation from rising food prices)
James Kirby, Food prices set to surge 50 per cent within five years, The Age, 2007 Sep. 2 (ag-flation—the sudden and irreversible upward momentum in food prices which is going to change the world as we know it)
Pierre-Henry Deshayes, Native polar bears will help guard a repository for millions of seeds, The Age, 2007 Sep. 1 (polar bears will help guard a repository for millions of seeds)
Leonie Wood, Fields of dreams, The Age, 2007 Sep. 1 (grain growers across Australia are praying for September rains, which will mean the difference between a record payout and disaster)
Equality 'threatened by climate', BBC, 2007 Sep. 28 (climate change is the greatest threat to global equality, Foreign Secretary David Miliband tells the UN)
Chee Chee Leung, Catastrophic bushfires likely for Victoria, The Age, 2007 Sep. 27 (catastrophic fire-weather events, similar to the 2003 Canberra bushfires, could occur in Melbourne every two to five years by 2050, a report on bushfires says)
David Altman, Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel-winning economist, looks at climate change, IHT, 2007 Sep. 25 (Altman recently moderated an online discussion about economics and climate change between readers and Joseph Stiglitz, a recipient of the Nobel in economic science and professor at Columbia University)
David Adam, How climate change will affect the world, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 19 (the effects will be felt sooner than scientists realised and the world must learn to live with them)
Making EU climate goal 'unlikely', BBC, 2007 Sep. 18 (it is unlikely that global temperature rise can be kept below the EU's target of 2oC)
Roger Harrabin, Bush aide says warming man-made, BBC, 2007 Sep. 14 (the US chief scientist John Marburger says climate change is almost certainly down to human activities)
Technology Quarterly: Jolly green heretic, Economist, 2007 Sep. 8 (Stewart Brand, a pioneer of both environmentalism and online communities, has not lost his willingness to rock the boat)
Rachel Kleinman, No more drought: it's a 'permanent dry', The Age, 2007 Sep. 7 (drought will become a redundant term as Australia plans for a permanently drier future, according to the nation's urban water industries chief)
UK peatlands face future stress, BBC, 2007 Sep. 1 (erosion and climate change could release a vast volume of carbon from the UK's peatlands)
Greek recovery 'to take decades', BBC, 2007 Sep. 29 (it will take at least 20 years for Greek forests ravaged by forest fires to recover, the WWF says)
David Rood, No to red gums report, The Age, 2007 Sep. 27 (John Brumby rejects a plan to flood the Murray's dying river red gums with billions of litres of water)
Chee Chee Leung, Catastrophic bushfires likely for Victoria, The Age, 2007 Sep. 27 (catastrophic fire-weather events, similar to the 2003 Canberra bushfires, could occur in Melbourne every two to five years by 2050, a report on bushfires says)
Rory Carroll, Flattened by hurricane, Mosquito Coast faces hunger and disease, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 26 (Destruction of rainforest heralds long-term misery for impoverished villagers)
Jamie Doward and Charlie Francis-Pape, Extreme weather creates fire risk for UK's beauty spots, Observer, 2007 Sep. 23 (some of Britain's most outstanding areas of natural beauty are at risk from the sort of fires that devastated Greece this summer)
Mark Forbes, Indonesia leads call for scheme to save forests, The Age, 2007 Sep. 21 (a multibillion-dollar plan to protect forests and lessen global warming is set to be backed by an alliance of nations home to more than 80 per cent of the world's tropical rainforests)
Rod Keenan, Sorting the wood from the trees in climate change, The Age, 2007 Sep. 15 (reduced deforestation, expanding plantations and environmental plantings, increasing stocks of wood products and use of wood from sustainably managed forests for bioenergy can make considerable contributions to our greenhouse mitigation effort)
James Rose, Forestry products not certified in reality, The Age, 2007 Sep. 12 (self-regulation needs, at the very least, a kick in the pants)
2 recent storms show forests help blunt hurricanes' force, IHT, 2007 Sep. 7 (forested areas are shrinking, particularly in Central America, and the environmental degradation is one of the reasons that even what would be a run-of-the-mill rainstorm elsewhere can cause deadly floods and mudslides here)
Jacques Diouf, Preventing and managing wildfires is a burning issue, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 5 (with fire emerging as a global menace, the world community needs a coordinated response strategy)
Carmel Egan, Warring parties turn their sights on river red gums, The Age, 2007 Sep. 2 (a plan to save the Murray's red gum forests could spell disaster for small towns along the river)
Forest fires in Europe: A combustible mixture, Economist, 2007 Sep. 1 (government incompetence and corruption encourage the arsonists)
Clifford Krauss, Ethanol boom fades as oversupply depresses prices, IHT, 2007 Sep. 30 (companies and farm cooperatives have built so many distilleries so quickly that the ethanol market is suddenly plagued by a glut, in part because the means to distribute it have not kept pace)
Advanced biofuels: Ethanol, schmethanol, Economist, 2007 Sep. 29 (everyone seems to think that ethanol is a good way to make cars greener; everyone is wrong)
Alternative energy: Using the sea to grow biofuel, Economist, 2007 Sep. 22 (at a conference in Oxford this week, John Munford, an independent British researcher, suggested that a more modest version of the "fertilise the oceans" project might help to stop climate change)
Mathew Murphy, Price lifts use of new energy, The Age, 2007 Sep. 20 (the high cost of fossil fuels is driving up the global use of nuclear power and renewable energy)
Nick Sheridan, Methane gas fires exploration project, The Age, 2007 Sep. 17 (a potential new source of "green" energy is being sought in the Latrobe Valley)
Nick Sheridan, Regions embrace renewable energy, The Age, 2007 Sep. 17 (growing concern about the security of sustainable energy supplies has prompted regional communities to start the move towards renewable energy sources)
Oil hits record on supply fears, BBC, 2007 Sep. 12 (oil prices have risen above $80 a barrel for the first time, a day after Opec moved to boost its output of crude in an effort to ease cost pressures)
Vanessa Burrow, OPEC, high demand hold world over a barrel, The Age, 2007 Sep. 12 (the oil price is at a near record as a convergence of bullish factors drives it ever higher)
Ashley Seager, Opec agrees modest increase in oil production, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 11 (prices remain in sight of record highs as traders disappointed output increase was not larger)
Mathew Murphy, Green process makes brown coal the new black, The Age, 2007 Sep. 10 (with governments refusing to walk away from abundant amounts of brown coal deposits to meet Australia's future energy needs, a small company in Bacchus Marsh believes it has found a way to make the fuel cleaner at a much cheaper cost)
Technology Quarterly: Sea change, Economist, 2007 Sep. 8 (rising costs and clever kit are transforming the oil platform—and could even do away with it altogether)
Technology Quarterly: Everlasting light, Economist, 2007 Sep. 8 (researchers have developed an environmentally friendly light bulb that uses very little energy and should never need changing)
John Martin, Regional areas realise power of renewable energy, The Age, 2007 Sep. 6 (the number of consumers in Australia buying GreenPower from renewable sources doubling in a year)
Jeremy Leggett, Kings of the coal habit, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 5 (the fate of our warming planet hinges on six nations, and five of them meet in Sydney this week)
Nesa Subrahmaniyan and Yuji Okada, Cost of fuel oil soars for shipowners and utilities, IHT, 2007 Sep. 4 (for the first time in two years, the price of fuel oil is rising faster than gasoline, jet fuel and diesel, increasing the cost of ocean freight and electricity)
Kerry-Anne Walsh, Feds all 'gas' and guzzle on LPG, The Age, 2007 Sep. 2 (a year ago, the Commonwealth enticed motorists to convert their cars to environmentally friendly LPG with a $2000 incentive)
Tim Colebatch, World Bank calls on oil producers to cut $50bn gas fire, The Age, 2007 Sep. 1 (the world's oil producers are wasting more than $50 billion a year of natural gas by burning it off in flares - and adding significantly to the world's greenhouse gas emissions in the process)
Colombia: Share gusher, Economist, 2007 Sep. 1 (an unfashionable oil privatisation)
Ewen MacAskill, Europeans angry after Bush climate speech 'charade', Guardian, 2007 Sep. 29 (US isolated as China and India refuse to back policy; president claims he can lead world on emissions)
Jo Chandler, The Earth is out of time, The Age, 2007 Sep. 29 (enough talk, scientists say; countries need to reach a consensus and act now or face an increasingly volatile planet)
Economics focus: Playing games with the planet, Economist, 2007 Sep. 29 (a version of "prisoner's dilemma" may suggest ways to break through the Kyoto impasse)
Climate change: As the waters rise, Economist, 2007 Sep. 29 (two summits on global warming lay bare a yawning gap over who needs to do what, as well as the ghost of a deal)
Ewen MacAskill, Diplomats accuse Bush of attempting to derail UN climate conference, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 27 (president goes ahead with own environment meeting; fear that US will again reject limit on emissions)
Kevin Watkins, For all this talk, still we head steadfastly for catastrophe, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 26 (this week's summit on climate change will achieve nothing if rich countries don't finally show some leadership)
Anne Davies, Global unity needed for climate change: UN, The Age, 2007 Sep. 26 (national action will not be enough to halt climate change, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns)
Vaclav Havel, The planet is not at risk. We are, IHT, 2007 Sep. 25 (maybe we should start considering our sojourn on Earth as a loan; there can be no doubt that for past hundred years at least, the Euro-American world has been running up a debt, and now other parts of the world are following its example)
World leaders at climate summit, BBC, 2007 Sep. 24 (leaders of 80 countries are expected to attend a special UN meeting in New York to discuss the effects of global warming and the ways to combat it)
Anne Davies, Reading between the lines on climate change, The Age, 2007 Sep. 21 (world leaders are gathering to discuss what should happen when the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012)
Danny Wood, UN desertification budget setback, BBC, 2007 Sep. 15 (the UN agrees a 10-year plan to tackle desertification but fails to reach an accord on the budget)
Tim Colebatch, Climate roadblocks, The Age, 2007 Sep. 15 (for years, the world has grown increasingly aware of the risks of global warming; companies, households and governments, you would think, have been stepping up action on "no regrets" measures to improve their energy efficiency, saving money and emissions at the same time)
Andrew C Revkin, U.S. climate research program hampered by delays, panel says, IHT, 2007 Sep. 14 (a governmentwide climate research program started five years ago by the Bush administration has been plagued by delays and has not devoted enough resources to studying the effects of climate change or to disseminating the findings)
Andrew Hewett, Australia should help the drowning nations, The Age, 2007 Sep. 14 (the countries least responsible for climate change will suffer most)
David Adam, Move to identify climate change security hotspots, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 11 (MoD has asked experts to identify regions of the world where global warming could spark conflict and security threats)
Brendan Mackey, APEC's agreement is a good start to tackling climate change, The Age, 2007 Sep. 11 (there are specific actions that need to be taken by all nations)
Julian Glover, State inaction on climate is a grave dereliction of duty, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 8 (government exists to achieve tasks individuals cannot tackle alone; on the environmental crisis, it has badly failed)
Chee Chee Leung, Global plan gathers seeds of a diverse future, The Age, 2007 Sep. 7 (it's the world's "insurance policy" against plant extinctions - green thumbs from across the globe banking tens of thousands of seeds for the future)
Ian Munro, UN chief calls for special meeting, The Age, 2007 Sep. 6 (fears that the United Nations climate change conference in December may not deliver results prompted its Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, to convene a on-day meeting for September 24)
Jacques Diouf, Preventing and managing wildfires is a burning issue, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 5 (with fire emerging as a global menace, the world community needs a coordinated response strategy)
Jeremy Leggett, Kings of the coal habit, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 5 (the fate of our warming planet hinges on six nations, and five of them meet in Sydney this week)
Tim Colebatch, The real challenge for APEC, The Age, 2007 Sep. 4 (there are many issues APEC could tackle, but global warming demands decisive action without delay)
Ashley Seager, Political climate is changing faster than our prime minister, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 3 (Lib Dems' green proposals show up paucity of Labour and Tory visions)
Rebecca Morelle, Deep-sea vents 'no climate haven', BBC, 2007 Sep. 10 (the exotic creatures that inhabit deep-sea vents will not be immune to the effects of climate change)
Catherine Brahic, US set to violate its standards on CO2 emissions, New Scientist, 2007 Sep. 24 (the US may violate its own standards on water quality by refusing to limit emissions of carbon dioxide, suggests a new study modelling ocean acidification)
Catherine Brahic, Shipping smoke plumes cool the atmosphere, New Scientist, 2007 Sep. 17 (cargo ships' "contrails" have a surprising but short-lived cooling effect—the results may alter predictions for future climate change)
Rebecca Morelle, Deep-sea vents 'no climate haven', BBC, 2007 Sep. 10 (the exotic creatures that inhabit deep-sea vents will not be immune to the effects of climate change)
Callum Roberts, Waves of despair, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 5 (once they were a national treasure chest, teeming with fish and wildlife; now the waters of the North Sea are quiet, almost dead; but it's not too late to stop the fishing industry destroying itself)
Lucinda Ormonde, Rabbits offset carbon efforts, The Age, 2007 Sep. 30 (a huge surge in the number of rabbits is threatening Australian attempts to curb climate change)
Catherine Brahic, 'Green roofs' could cool warming cities, New Scientist, 2007 Sep. 28 (covering city buildings in vegetation—creating "green roofs" and walls—could substantially save energy by reducing the need for air conditioning on hot days)
Richard Black, Ocean climate fix urged, BBC, 2007 Sep. 25 (a quick global warming fix using pipes in the oceans is proposed by scientists James Lovelock and Chris Rapley)
Reuters, 191 nations accelerate limits on threats to ozone, IHT, 2007 Sep. 22 (the agreement will phase out production and use of hydrochlorofluorocarbons for developed countries to 2020 from 2030 and to 2030 from 2040 for developing nations)
David Hall, Ten million reasons why business really can counter climate change, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 20 (in slashing the price of lightbulbs, we have shown how green consumerism can work)
Andrew C Revkin, From Ozone Success, a Potential Climate Model, IHT, 2007 Sep. 18 (some veterans of both the ozone and climate fights insist that the Montreal success is a model for climate action)
Andy Coghlan, 'Smart roofs' can keep you cool and save energy, New Scientist, 2007 Sep. 18 (why use power-hungry air conditioning when a modified roof and attic space could absorb the Sun's heat and release it again at night?)
Environmentalism and building: Green as houses, Economist, 2007 Sep. 15 (building green is getting cheaper and more popular in the US)
PA, New M&S stores powered by windmill, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 10 (two 'green' stores will include a series of eco-features aimed at reducing their carbon footprint)
Madeleine Bunting, Greens need to grasp the nettle: aren't there just too many people?, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 10 (reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children)
Technology Quarterly: Jolly green heretic, Economist, 2007 Sep. 8 (Stewart Brand, a pioneer of both environmentalism and online communities, has not lost his willingness to rock the boat)
Technology Quarterly: Old clean coal, Economist, 2007 Sep. 8 (using photosynthesis to capture exhaust gases from power plants could reduce the emissions produced by coal-fired stations)
Technology Quarterly: Borrowing from nature, Economist, 2007 Sep. 8 (architects believe that biologically inspired designs can help to reduce the environmental impact of buildings)
Greens want 'fair' energy payouts, BBC, 2007 Sep. 6 (homeowners should get better financial rewards when generating power through solar panels)
Terry Macalister, Green urinal aims to stop firms throwing water down drain, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 4 (Rentokil Initial claims to have developed an environmentally friendly urinal that could save the equivalent of 840 Olympic-sized swimming pools of water a year at a firm with 2,000 male staff)
Kerry-Anne Walsh, Feds all 'gas' and guzzle on LPG, The Age, 2007 Sep. 2 (a year ago, the Commonwealth enticed motorists to convert their cars to environmentally friendly LPG with a $2000 incentive)
Liz Minchin, Call for a major green and global renovation rescue, The Age, 2007 Sep. 1 (buildings have emerged as one of the main causes of global warming, with a major international study showing that they produce 10.6 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year, or more than a third of the total from human activity)
Chee Chee Leung, New data means rethink on El Nino, The Age, 2007 Sep. 26 (one of the world's largest and most important wind systems has weakened to a 30-year low, in what scientists suspect may be another symptom of climate change)
Tony Wright, Time to go?, The Age, 2007 Sep. 29 (a bitter drought and a new offer from the Government to leave the land means many Australian farmers are confronted with a heartbreaking decision)
Larissa Dubecki and Orietta Guerrera, Life off the land, The Age, 2007 Sep. 29 (community leaders say a social tragedy is unfolding in already stricken rural areas as more and more farmers abandon their properties)
James Norman, Australia must end its coal addiction, The Age, 2007 Sep. 28 (political leaders need to bring in some big changes to combat climate change)
David Rood, Bush protests lash Brumby on water plan, The Age, 2007 Sep. 27 (angry protesters ambush a water announcement by Premier John Brumby, confronting him in a day of protest against the Government's controversial plans to pipe water across the Great Dividing Range to Melbourne)
Katharine Murphy, Go west to seek food fortunes, says Howard adviser, The Age, 2007 Sep. 26 (a key policy adviser to Prime Minister John Howard believes it is time for governments to plan a "slow migration" of people, agriculture and businesses to the north-west of Australia, because that is where the water is)
Alan Moran, Victoria's water agenda doesn't float, The Age, 2007 Sep. 21 (the Government is going down the wrong pipeline in the search for a cost-effective water solution)
Jewel Topsfield, Victoria revolts at plan to hand over water, The Age, 2007 Sep. 20 (the Howard Government is facing a revolt from Victoria over a radical plan to take water from irrigators to keep in reserve for South Australia next year)
Rachel Kleinman, Power supplies at risk from big dry, The Age, 2007 Sep. 10 (the nation's power generators have fired a stern warning about electricity supplies in light of predictions that the drought will drag on)
Andrew Darby, The climate canaries, The Age, 2007 Sep. 25 (the fate of many penguin breeds may offer startling warning of the dangers of climate change)
Steven McKenzie, Baby bats hit by cold, wet summer, BBC, 2007 Sep. 18 (British bats are abandoning their young in a struggle to survive poor breeding conditions)
Richard Black, Gorillas head race to extinction, BBC, 2007 Sep. 12 (gorillas, corals and vultures are all closer to extinction, according to the latest bleak analysis of the natural world)
Alison Benjamin, Threatened species Red List shows escalating 'global extinction crisis', Guardian, 2007 Sep. 12 (16,306 species now at the highest levels of extinction threat, equivalent to almost 40% of all species in the survey)
US predicts polar bear meltdown, BBC, 2007 Sep. 10 (two-thirds of the world's polar bears will be gone by mid-century, a US government agency reports)
Lorna Edwards, Scientists warn of virus threat to fur seals, The Age, 2007 Sep. 10 (scientists fear the massive breeding colony of 27,500 Australian fur seals at Lady Julia Percy Island could fall victim to morbilliviruses, which have decimated their cousins in the northern hemisphere)
Rachel Kleinman, The frog that walks found on the hop, The Age, 2007 Sep. 10 (the future of the small brown amphibian is looking brighter after conservation volunteers discovered several new colonies in a Victorian national park)
Lindsay Murdoch, NT saves quoll but hundreds of species at risk, The Age, 2007 Sep. 10 (scientists have identified 203 species that are under threat in northern Australia's vast wilderness, including 72 plants, 10 fish, 17 reptiles, 45 mammals and 23 birds)
Juliette Jowit, One in four mammals under threat, Observer, 2007 Sep. 9 (habitat loss means thousands of endangered species will survive only in zoos)
Endangered species: The overcrowded ark, Economist, 2007 Sep. 8 (the Endangered Species Act has become unwieldy; time for a change)
David Rood, River town restrictions set to ease, The Age, 2007 Sep. 28 (harsh stage 4 water restrictions will be eased along all of Victoria's Murray River towns, despite the river's storages being at critically low levels coming into summer)
Jim Yardley, Though water is drying up, a Chinese metropolis booms, IHT, 2007 Sep. 27 (hundreds of feet below ground, this provincial capital of more than two million people, Shijiazhuang, is steadily running out of water; the water table is sinking fast; municipal wells have already drained two-thirds of the local groundwater)
Jewel Topsfield, Victoria revolts at plan to hand over water, The Age, 2007 Sep. 20 (the Howard Government is facing a revolt from Victoria over a radical plan to take water from irrigators to keep in reserve for South Australia next year)
Liz Minchin, State's rivers face toxic threat, The Age, 2007 Sep. 17 (the Yarra and other Victorian rivers are at risk of toxic algal blooms this summer)
Jason Dowling, Ripples in serenity as lake loses 30bn litres, The Age, 2007 Sep. 16 (Victoria's second-largest water storage, Lake Eildon, may fall to its lowest level on record this summer due to low rainfall in August)
Peter Ker, City promised it won't go thirsty this summer, The Age, 2007 Sep. 14 (Melburnians have been guaranteed that they will not run out of drinking water this summer)
Dan Silkstone and Royce Millar, Push to save sporting fields goes national, The Age, 2007 Sep. 12 (the fight to rescue Australia's sporting fields just got big)
Royce Millar, Campaign to save sports grounds, The Age, 2007 Sep. 11 (a rare alliance of sports groups and councils will today make an desperate appeal to save Victoria's 3700 sports grounds and tennis courts from the drought)
Environmental protection: Muddy waters, Economist, 2007 Sep. 8 (the murky rules for keeping the Great Lakes clean)
Orietta Guerrera, Farmer's high hopes fading fast as rain stays away, The Age, 2007 Sep. 7 (after poor August rains, the fourth-generation mixed-crop farmer describes the current situation as on a knife edge; in the past four days some sections of the wheat crop, now knee-high, have begun to discolour, and appear spiky)
Terry Macalister, Green urinal aims to stop firms throwing water down drain, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 4 (Rentokil Initial claims to have developed an environmentally friendly urinal that could save the equivalent of 840 Olympic-sized swimming pools of water a year at a firm with 2,000 male staff)
Rachel Kleinman, Fingers crossed for spring rain, The Age, 2007 Sep. 1 (Melbourne's water supplies are at their lowest levels at the start of spring since the Thomson Dam came into operation in 1983, signalling a tough summer ahead for water authorities, consumers and the environment)
Reuters, Hurricane Lorenzo hits Mexico, The Age, 2007 Sep. 30 (hurricane Lorenzo has crashed into Mexico's Gulf coast, killing five people)
Fred Attewill et al., Tornadoes strike UK amid freak storms, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 25 (roofs ripped off and trees flattened as heavy rain delays rail commuters)
John Vidal, African deluge brings misery to 1.5m people, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 20 (nearly 200 drowned and 650,000 homes destroyed while UN appeals for aid as food sent to seven countries)
Jonathan Watts, 'Super typhoon' to hit Shanghai, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 19 (Shanghai and neighbouring regions evacuate 200,000 people ahead of the landfall of 'super typhoon' Wipha)
Jeff Wilson, Early freeze threatens to reduce quality of U.S. soybean crop, IHT, 2007 Sep. 16 (the freeze was as much as three weeks early in parts of the Midwest)
AP, Wet and hungry, Africans flee "worst floods in living memory", IHT, 2007 Sep. 15 (torrential downpours and flash floods have affected more than a million people across the African continent, displacing hundreds of thousands, killing at least 150 and submerging whole towns and villages in some places)
Chee Chee Leung and Orietta Guerrera, Forecasters predict a 'dry' La Niña, The Age, 2007 Sep. 13 (if a La Niña developed in spring it would be late by historical standards and unlikely to produce the usual wetter-than-average conditions)
Rachel Kleinman, Early spring offers little drought relief, The Age, 2007 Sep. 10 (the start to spring brought bad news for Melbourne's water stores, with only 2.2 millimetres of rain so far this month; average rainfall for the whole month is 59 millimetres)
James Orr et al., Felix death toll climbs to 38, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 6 (more than 200 people missing in Central America, with flash floods and landslides feared still to come)
Haroon Siddique et al., Hurricane Felix hits Nicaragua, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 4 (first time two category 5 storms make landfall in same season)
Emine Saner, Why do weather records only begin in 1914?, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 3 (while the Met Office seems keen on saying "since records began in 1914" to describe any kind of record-busting weather (such as 2007's "wettest summer"), it has records that go back much further)
Robin McKie, Official: it was a crazy summer, Observer, 2007 Sep. 2 (after this year's rains, extreme climate forces will grip the nation, says chief meteorologist)