Global warming endangering plants on Australia’s snowy slopes.
With a 40% decrease in snow cover over the last five decades, the plants that once thrived on the highlands in the Snowy Mountains are facing extinction.

Some of them grow only in the long-lasting snow areas, which no longer exist. Associate Professor Catherine Pickering of Australia’s Griffith University said, “We are about to lose two of our rarest plant communities, right before our eyes.”

Professor Pickering and colleagues, we appreciate your candid observations that reveal the disturbingly swift changes to the landscape and nature of our most beloved regions.

Let us make equally quick changes toward caring sustainability to restore the balance of our diverse and beautiful planet.

Supreme Master Ching Hai has reminded that we can save the precious vibrancy of life on Earth simply by foregoing animal products and being veg, as in a May 2009 videoconference in Togo.


Reference
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4902350.cms

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With some 19 million residents overall, Mexico City, Mexico becomes the second large metropolitan area in the western hemisphere to ban thin plastic shopping bags in stores and all production facilities.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/08/19/mexico.plastic.bag.ban/index.html?iref=24hours

As devastating drought continues in Kenya, scanty crop yields have resulted in hunger, with even previously wealthy families forced to abandon their homes and relocate in less fortunate urban areas.
http://www.france24.com/en/20090819-kenyan-farmers-hit-drought-relocate-slums


Starting in 2012, eight airlines in Los Angeles International Airport, USA will purchase up to 1.5 million gallons
of biodegradable “green fuel” made from waste materials by Rentech, Inc. to power ground service equipment sustainably and with no emissions.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-08/19/content_11910151.htm