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Millions Hungry As Warming Shifts Seasons

"In a new report, global aid agency Oxfam says impoverished communities...are already being hit hard by the effects of global warming, including increased drought.  Without international funding to help them cope and tough targets for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, the food, water, health and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of the world's poorest people will be put at even greater risk."  [Reuters]

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• Oxfam Details Economic Impacts of Warming [Green, Inc. - New York Times]

Report Shows Greater Peril for World's Threatened Animals, Plants

"The global crisis for endangered species is more serious than the financial meltdown, with numbers of imperiled animals and plants rising at record rates, scientists are warning in a report released today...The report, "Wildlife in a Changing World," estimates that 22 percent of known mammals are either facing the threat of extinction or are already extinct. It also found great stress for amphibians, with more than 30 percent classified as threatened or extinct."  [Greenwire - New York Times]

Q and A on the Climate Bill

The climate bill approved by the House last month started out as an idea -- fight global warming -- and wound up looking like an unabridged dictionary. It runs to more than 1,400 pages, swollen with loopholes and giveaways meant to win over un-green industries and wary legislators. Here are answers to some key questions about the bill. [Washington Post]

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In Spain, The Dead Help Fight Climate Change

" In the Barcelona suburb of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, the deceased are fighting climate change. Last November, the town's cemetery installed more than 450 solar panels on tops of the mausoleums, called niches." [Morning Edition - NPR]

OPINION

• Thomas Friedman: Can I Clean Your Clock [New York Times]