PLANET IN PERIL

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.

Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian - 1 June 2011 Greenhouse gas emissions from the tar sands are on the rise, but try finding that in Canada's official report to the UN. Details here.

  VINCENT MICHEL / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Cracked and dry earth is seen along the riverbed of the Loire River in Ancenis, western France. Rainfall in France has been down 50 percent from normal levels since March, leading France to impose curbs on water consumption in a third of France's administrative departments.

By Tom Lasseter | McClatchy Newspapers May 31'11 XINZHOU, China — As deputy Communist Party secretary of the Yangtze River management station… Details here.

Rome/Nairobi, 1 June 2011 United Nations officials called today for a "Green Revolution," a dramatic increase in support for sustainable agriculture.... Details here.

By: Josh Brandon - 06/1/2011 Wpg. Free Press The flood season of 2011 is among the worst Manitoba has ever seen. Details here. (Josh Brandon is water caucus co-ordinator at the Manitoba Eco-Network ) Below the Shellmouth Dam.  l.p. photo Please also read "Lake-of-the-Prairies - the next Lake Winnipeg?" Like the article above, it also includes information on the critical role of wetlands.