https://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0406-02.htm
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In a First, Security Council to Discuss Climate Change Threat
The UN Security Council will discuss potential threats to international security from climate change for the first time later this month.
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040607T.shtml
Fear Over Diluted Climate Warnings
An authoritative international global warming conference lapsed into an unprecedented showdown between scientists and diplomats over authors' concerns that governments were watering down their warnings. Last-minute negotiations over language continued behind closed doors Friday, less than two hours before the scheduled release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report in Brussels.
https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040607EA.shtml
Southwest May Get Even Hotter, Drier
Global warming will permanently change the climate of the American Southwest, making it so much hotter and drier that Dust Bowl-scale droughts will become common, a new climate report concludes.
https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040607EB.shtml
Environmental Racism Still Major Problem
Twenty years after a landmark report documented environmental racism in the United States, new evidence shows that toxic waste is still being disproportionately dumped on communities of color.
https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040607EC.shtml
