Stuck in the ... tarmac?: Want to know what climate change looks like? Check out the picture above. The extreme heat across the country has had serious consequences for our transportation infrastructure in recent weeks, including buckling train tracks, and yes, even melting tarmac to the extent that airplanes actually sink into it and get stuck. Grist

Stop, drop, and roll, Earth: Get used to those horrendous wildfires sweeping the western United States. A new study analyzed data from 16 different climate models and found that 80 percent of the world will be disrupted by fires by 2100, and areas like the American Southwest, in particular, will see big increases in fire risk. Science Progress

Crop catastrophe: The hot weather is going to make your wallet sweat, too. Corn and soy prices exploded yesterday, thanks to concerns that prolonged drought will knock production down drastically. By September, corn stockpiles could sit 35 percent below levels the government predicted only a month ago. And it's not just the Corn Belt -- many are worried that the heat in the Northwest will strike a blow to crop yields as well. CNN, Kansas City Star, Des Moines Register

"Culture of deviance": Operators of the pipeline that spilled more than a million gallons of oil into Michigan's Kalamazoo River actually knew about the line's defect FIVE years earlier, according to a damning report from government investigators. The author of our series on the spill, The Whistleblower, reports on the attitudes that allowed the worst oil spill in Midwestern history to happen. And by the way, the oil was tar sands crude, a fact the government seems unwilling to discuss. OnEarth

Bad Apples: San Francisco will stop buying Apple products across all city agencies after the company removed its products from the EPEAT registry of green products. And if Apple stays off such lists, San Francisco won't be the only buyer backing out -- the federal government requires 95 percent of its computers to be EPEAT-certified. Compute this, Apple: staying green = making more green. Wall Street Journal

Shell game: A coalition of conservation groups -- including NRDC -- sued the federal government yesterday over its approvals that allow Shell Oil to drill in the Arctic, saying that the oil spill response plans are inadequate. Even so, the lawsuit won't be able to block Shell from starting to drill the Beaufort and Chuckchi seas by late summer. MSNBC

Rasta parasite: Bob Marley's music will play on in college frat houses for time and eternity. And now, his name will live on as well ... within Linnaean classification systems. In tribute to the late Rastafarian, researchers from Arkansas State University have named a parasitic crustacean Gnathia marleyi. They say the parasite, which feasts on the blood of fish, is "as uniquely Caribbean as Marley." Reuters

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