Birds in India suffer from high heat.
Avian populations, once abundant in the nation, have been dwindling due to urbanization and use of pesticides. Moreover, with this year bringing India’s hottest March and April in a century, with May temperatures often exceeding 45 degrees Celsius, an alarming number of birds have been succumbing to heatstroke.

In the city of Delhi alone, where vultures, doves and sparrows are already facing extinction, some 300 birds have been treated daily for sunstroke, at least 70 of whom are seen each day at the long-established Charity Birds Hospital.

Meanwhile, in neighboring Uttar Pradesh, the state forest department reported the tragic finding of 150 peacocks who perished in the summer heat. Officials there are now working to refill parched water bodies and implement other local preventive measures.

Our earnest thanks, Charity Birds Hospital and all officials, organizations, and personnel working to save avian co-inhabitants imperiled by the intense heat.

With our prayers for their revival to flourishing health, let us swiftly join in meaningful actions to restore the Earth’s balance for the benefit of all beings. As part of her tireless efforts to ensure our planetary welfare, Supreme Master Ching Hai has often addressed the perilous situation of our animal co-inhabitants, as in this August 2009 videoconference in Thailand.

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/enviornment/heat-preys-on-delhi-birds_100372684.html
http://www.ndtv.com/news/india/dead-peacocks-pile-up-in-uttar-pradesh-29526.php

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China notes weather disruptions such as record high temperatures in the normally coldest regions of Heilongjiang province and Inner Mongolia, as well with typically warmer areas such as Nanjing facing record low seasonal temperatures.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-06/13/c_13348477.htm
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90782/7024764.html

In Beirut, Lebanon over 150 people bicycle across the city in a call for more paths to support this green and eco-friendly form of transportation.
http://www.france24.com/en/20100612-activists-cycle-two-wheeled-revolution-lebanon
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hMW6-UnRybab-uNAQe_lCCN2bHxA

With a recent Massachusetts, USA-commissioned study Reporting that wood-burning power plants release more emissions than coal the use of biomass as a sustainable energy source is further called into question, especially considering the limited supply of sustainably harvested wood.
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/2010-06-10-massachusetts-wood-burning-
carbon_N.htm
http://michiganmessenger.com/38678/study-finds-wood-burning-releases-more-greehouse-gas-than-coal

Cuba hosts a youth forum of international university students who call for action from industrialized nations to safeguard humanity and the environment along with proposed school curricula for education on ecology and the development of international youth eco-advocacy groups.
http://www.plenglish.com//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=196367&Itemid=1
http://www.juventudrebelde.co.cu/cuba/2010-06-03/youth-forum-to-carry-out-to-defend-nature/
http://www.cubaheadlines.com/2010/06/04/21924/cuba_concerned_over_ecological_issues.html