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Hatched and Wild Salmon: A Bad Mix?  New York Times, 16 May 2012 The pink and flaky salmon sitting on your dinner plate can be of three varieties: wild, farmed or hatched. As the name implies, wild salmon live and die by nature’s hand alone. Farmed salmon are bred, born and raised agriculturally. Hatched salmon, though, lie somewhere in between: they are hatched by humans and then freed as youngsters to spend the rest of their lives in the wild. Ocean temperature made Queensland floods worse: study The Age, 16 May 2012 Abnormally high ocean temperatures off the coast of northern Australia contributed to the extreme rainfall that flooded three-quarters of Queensland over the summer of 2010-11, scientists report. Danger from the deep: New climate threat as methane rises from cracks in Arctic ice The Independent, 23 April 2012 A new source of methane – a greenhouse gas many times more powerful than carbon dioxide – has been identified by scientists flying over areas in the Arctic where the sea ice has melted. Take the Subway The New York Times, 7 March 2012 As we hurriedly put on our coats, Lukyanov had one piece of advice for me, and it wasn’t that the U.S. should stay out of Syria.It was: “Take the subway.” True, Moscow’s gridlock was not as bad as the August 2010 traffic jam on the main north-south highway from Beijing to Inner Mongolia. Said to be the longest in the history of the planet, that baby stretched 60 miles, moved at a speed of 2 miles per day, took 10 days to unsnarl and spawned its own local economy of noodle sellers. Makeover of Penang The Straits Times, 2 March 2012 A few years ago, Penang resident Goh Saw Kee would often blush with embarrassment whenever she showed visitors around the island. Grassroots green projects 'are way to low-carbon UK' The Guardian, United Kingdom, 2 February 2012 Coalition of groups representing 12 million people hails localising of energy generation, but bemoans lack of state support. Climate change a fundamental health risk: academic The Age, Australia, 31 January 2012 A leading Australian disease expert says prompt action on climate change is paramount to our survival on earth. Building a home the green way The Telegraph, United Kingdom, 24 January 2012 How to be green and stay sane - why we must build to better standards. Animals can't keep up with climate change The Independent, United Kingdom, 22 January 2012 More than 11,000 bird and butterfly species were analysed over 20 years by scientists in the largest study of its kind. Releasing some of the data for the first time, scientists reveal how species are failing to keep up as warmer temperatures move north. The findings saw birds lag behind their normal climate zones, on average by 212 kilometres and butterflies by 135km. Some birds, such as the black and white pied flycatcher, are unable to adapt to the encroaching warmth and are not naturally moving north to cooler areas, according to experts writing in the journal Nature. Polluted air 'puts Olympic athletes at risk' The Independent, 16 January 2012 Olympic athletes could suffer impaired performance times and become ill as a result of London's unacceptably high levels of air pollution, leading respiratory scientists are warning.
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