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Both drought and flooding can ruin a garden, but there are lots of things the average home gardener can do to help stop global warming. We already know that we should trade in our SUVs, use florescent light bulbs and turn down the thermostat. According to a new report from the National Wildlife Federation called “A Gardeners Guide to Global Warming,” there are also many things you can do in your own garden to help fight climate change.

Environmentalist Patty Glick says, “There are many simple and thoughtful ways we can manage our gardens that can make an enormous difference in reducing the impacts of global warming.”
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A new study shows that adoptive parents invest more time and financial resources in their children compared with biological parents. And grandparents of adopted grandchildren relate to them as an integral part of the family?just as they relate to their biological grandchildren. This challenges the conventional idea that children are better off with their biological parents.
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Climate change will cause flooding in many regions of the world, as glaciers and ice sheets melt, but in the Southwestern US (the fastest growing region of the country), scientists predict a long drought ahead. It’s already happening in Australia.

In the Independent, Kathy Marks writes, “Australia has warned that it will have to switch off the water supply to the continent’s food bowl unless heavy rains break an epic drought?heralding what could be the first climate change-driven disaster to strike a developed nation.”

This may soon happen to US: in LiveScience.com, Andrea Thompson writes about a new study that shows that “human-induced change in Earth’s atmosphere will leave the American Southwest in perpetual drought for the next 90 years.”
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The Kaz II, a 40 foot yacht, has been foundoff the Australian coast with its occupants missing. So far,a search has failed to turn up any signs of the three peopleon the boat. The only sign of trouble was a ripped sail. Theboat was found with the engine running and a table laid fordinner. If violent weather had been the cause of thedisappeareance, the interior of the yacht would have shownsome signs of disturbance. This is reminiscent of another incident that occurred off the Australian coast, when aplane andits pilot disappeared after the pilot reported sighting a UFO.
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