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A 97-square-mile (251-square-kilometer) iceberg, which broke off Greenland's Petermann Glacier a year ago, is floating southward along the eastern shores of Canada as of August, 6, 2011 with its likely course of running aground near the coast causing a danger to shipping traffic and oil rigs.

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/233125-Gigantic-Iceberg-Bumps-Canada-s-Coast-as-it-Drifts-South
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/193632/20110806/iceberg-canada-coast-manhattan-petermann-ice-island.htm

In a report published August 9, 2011, the UN World Food Program warns that prolonged drought in western and northeastern Afghanistan is already causing seven million people to face food shortages, with potential failure of current wheat crops raising further concerns.

http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/crop-failure-compounds-drought-crisis-in-afghanistan/
http://www.foodsecuritylink.net/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=240:afghanistan-nearly-nine-million-face-food-shortages&Itemid=2

An August 2011 interim status report in the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List reveals that a third of freshwater fish worldwide are facing extinction, with overfishing and human-caused pollution among the main threats to their survival.  

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/overfishing-and-dams-driving-freshwater-fish-towards-
extinction-20110801-1i875.html#ixzz1TzIc6uFK,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/8672417/Third-of-freshwater-fish-threatened-with-extinction.html