PLANET IN PERIL

DIGITAL JOURNAL - June 6 - '11  Oslo - More than 42 million people world-wide were forced to flee due to a series of climate change-related natural disasters in 2010, more than double…. Details here.

Paul Loeb HUFFPOST GREEN - 06/ 6/11 Following the weather is beginning to feel like revisiting the Biblical plagues. Details here. A wildfire sweeps over Alpine, Arizona, burning 120,600 acres by Saturday. Courtesy of Common Dreams

Nick Young - Greenpeace - 6/6/11 Today an Amsterdam court judge turned the tables on Cairn Energy. Details here. Greenpeace protesters spent four days in a survival pod attached to the the Leiv Eiriksson rig.  (Photograph: Steve Morgan/Greenpeace) 

Winnipeg Free Press - 06/6/2011 WINNIPEG - Lake Manitoba is now expected to hit 816.5 feet in July, almost a foot higher than previously forecast.  Details here. A farmyard somewhere between  Twin Lakes and Delta Beach.    (MIKE DEAL / Wpg. Free Press)

By: David Schindler - 06/2/11 Wpg. Free Press - View From the West. The Manitoba government is to be congratulated for its announcement this week that its policy for Lake Winnipeg will focus on aggressively reducing phosphorus inputs to the lake. Details here.