With the first week of July 2011 marking 55 years since the passage of the Clean Air Act, experts estimate that air pollution still accounts for the premature death of some 40,000 people in France and tens of thousands in the UK each year, as campaigners call for their governments to do more to reduce pollutants.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/air-pollution-killing-tens-of-thousands-
each-year-2305992.html
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/188355.html


Research from the University of Alberta in Canada, published in the July 2011 issue of the journal Bioscience, reports that as climate change causes spring to occur earlier, the native trees and wildflowers across Alberta province are blooming sooner, which is endangering their reproduction as they become more vulnerable to frosts.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110706134145.htm
http://www.expressnews.ualberta.ca/en/NewsArticles/2011/07
/Researcherdetermineswhybloomisofftherose.aspx

In Italy, the Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research reports on July 11, 2011 that up to 700 miles of coastal shores are shrinking due to a combination of unregulated development,as well as increased violent winter storms,sea level rise and erosion due to climate change.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8628738/Italys-beaches-shrunk-by-erosion.html
http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/italys-beaches-vanishing-due-to-violent-effects-of-climate-
change.html#ixzz1Roo7UhnN