Global News January 2009

*Southern Australia feels the heat, January 28 BBC news, January 28 Residents of south-eastern Australia are being warned to expect the worst heatwave in a century. Temperatures went up to 45.5C (114F) in Adelaide, its hottest day in 70 years. topic
* Endangered species discovered - call for halt to logging, Brown Mountain old growth forest, Victoria, Australia, January 28 Environment East Gippsland, Media release, January 28 
*Two thirds of soot pollution in South Asia comes from biomass combustion such as in household cooking and in slash-and-burn agriculture, January 23 United Nations Environment Programme, January 23 topic
*IPCC chairman challenges Obama to further cut USA emission targets, January 16 Worldwatch Institute, January 16, 2009 Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: "President-elect Obama's goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 falls short of the response needed by world leaders to meet the challenge of reducing emissions to levels that will actually spare us the worst effects of climate change." topic
*Antarctica has been warming for the last 50 years, and has been warming especially in West Antarctica, January 21, 2009 RealClimate, January 21, 2009 topic
*Japan and South Korea launch Green New Deals, January 9 United Nations Environment Programme, January 9 South Korea's 36 projects include the creation of green transport networks, the provision of two million energy-saving 'green homes' and the clean-up of the country's four main rivers. topic
*New protections for an area of the central Pacific Ocean larger than California, January 6 Environmental Defense Fund, January 6 topic
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