Here they are from Time Magazine (Top 10 Green Stories):

1. The Great Midwest Drought By Bryan Walsh Dec. 04, 2012

DANNY WILCOX FRAZIER FOR TIME

Drought is the slow-motion natural disaster—the kind that’s easy to overlook as it’s happening—but what hit the U.S. corn belt this summer was [...]

NOAA,  November 30, 2012
(Image – Pillar coral stand in the Upper Keys with blue-headed wrasse (NOAA)In compliance with a federal court ordered deadline, and consistent with existing international protections, NOAA Fisheries announced today that it is proposing Endangered Species Act (ESA) listings for 66 coral species, including 59 in the Pacific and [...]

New Scientist, 29 November 2012 by Anil Ananthaswamy

Expect more water to lap at your shores. That’s the take-home message from two studies out this week that look at the latest data on sea level rise due to climate change.

The first shows that current projections for the end of the century may seriously underestimate the [...]

Dr Chris McGrath, Barrister-at-Law and Senior lecturer, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management

Burn it all. That is the plan in Australia’s new Energy White Paper.

Released yesterday by Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson, it talks about responding to climate change while planning the opposite.

It is true that the Energy White Paper plans to [...]

New satellite images show polar ice coverage dwindling in extent and thickness.   A report from the European Space Agency‘s CryoSat-2 probe adds worrying evidence  that we have grossly under-estimated the rate at which the Earth’s climate is changing.  The implications for natural ecosystems and human communities are extremely [...]

Here is a novel way for responding to sealevel rise.  Just in legislate it out of existence!  This article by Bruce Henderson appeared in the News Observer on May 28.  If you look at the lobby group behind all of this, NC20, you will see that they also claim that internationally renowned researchers such [...]

ABC Environment 8 AUG 2012; Michael Mann

THE FIRST SCIENTIST to alert Americans to the prospect that human-caused climate change and global warming was already upon us was NASA climatologist James Hansen. In a sweltering US Senate hall during the hot, dry summer of 1988, Hansen announced “it is time to stop waffling… The [...]

The Wall Street Journal, Aug 7, 2012

It’s time for conservatives to compete with liberals to devise the best, most cost-effective climate solutions.

One scorching summer doesn’t confirm that climate change is real any more than a white Christmas proves it’s a hoax. What matters is the trend—a decades-long march toward [...]

ABC News. July 25, 2012 16:02:54

So far this month, 27.8 millimetres of rain has fallen in the metropolitan area.

The average for July is 169.6 millimetres.

The previous low was when recording first began in 1876 and the city received 61.5 millimetres.

WASHINGTON, July 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – For several days this month, Greenland’s surface ice cover melted over a larger area than at any time in more than 30 years of satellite observations. Nearly the entire ice cover of Greenland, from its thin, low-lying coastal edges to its 2-mile-thick center, experienced some degree of melting at its surface, according to measurements [...]