2-minute catch-up

Just a quick post to keep the blog ticking over. I'm sorry not to have been able to post for a week or so, and I don't think I'll have much chance over the coming weeks either, but I haven't stopped thinking about the blog and reading the articles that I think should be covered, so I will try at some stage to write a proper post.

In the meantime, it's a fair amount of bad news. The heatwave has continued to cause disruption and environmental chaos, including fires; the Middle East's catastrophe has caused serious damage to the Syrian coast due to an oil spill from Israeli bombardments on a Lebanese power plant; bad news for Vancouver Island as logging gets the go-ahead in UNESCO area; China has suffered a typhoon since I last wrote; a pesticide spill in Australia has killed many fish and damaged the natural area; BBC's been covering reports on the potential damage to the British coast of dredging in terms of erosion; the media has been attached for its treatment of climate change as scare-mongering; there has been indignation as a bishop has labelled environmental destruction as sinful; another breed of whales looks set to face extinction; and cars in the States seem to be less fuel efficient than they were a decade ago. I'll come back and look at some of these stories properly soon, and flag up useful links too.

Maybe next time I write, there will be more cause for optimism, let's hope there are a few more positive stories this week...