New Scientist News - Climate warning as Siberia melts: "THE world's largest frozen peat bog is melting. An area stretching for a million square kilometres across the permafrost of western Siberia is turning into a mass of shallow lakes as the ground melts, according to Russian researchers just back from the region.
The sudden melting of a bog the size of France and Germany combined could unleash billions of tonnes of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere."
Europe's big cities feel the heat of climate change: WWF - Yahoo! News: "Between 2000 and 2004, average temperatures in 13 of the 16 cities surveyed were at least one degree Celsius higher than during the first five years of the 1970s, the environmental organisation said.
The study covered the 15 capitals of the pre-2004 European Union as well as Warsaw in Poland.
The largest rise in average temperatures between June and late September was 2.2 degrees Celsius in Madrid, where the summer average reached about 23.7 degrees C (74 degrees Fahrenheit) during the first five years of this decade, according to the study."
