Manmade climate change is the main driver behind the unexpected
emergence of a group of bacteria in northern Europe which can
cause gastroenteritis, new research by a group of international
experts shows. [Reuters] “The big apparent increases that we’ve
seen in cases during heat wave years … tend to indicate that
climate change is indeed driving infections,” Craig Baker-Austin
at the UK-based Centre for Environment, Fisheries and
Aquaculture Science, one of the authors of the study, told
Reuters. Climate studies show that rising greenhouse gas
emissions made global average surface temperatures increase by
about 0.17 degrees Celsius a decade from 1980 to 2010. It is
home to a quarter of the planet’s oil and natural gas reserves,
yet humans have hardly touched these resources in the far north.
But in a few days that could change dramatically if Shell
receives approval to drill for oil in the Arctic. [Guardian] New
restrictions for cruise ships — which will phase out the world’s
dirtiest transportation fuel in U