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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Australia is drowning... so is China... so is Brazil; EPA smackdown on Mountaintop Removal; Still more on the BP Oil Disaster in the Gulf ... PLUS: It's official: 2010 was the hottest year on record .... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): The Great Food Crisis of 2011; China's energy efficiency Increases 20% in 5 Years; Undercover cops infiltrated environmental groups in UK; Italy and other counties fined for illegal fishing; Why don’t larger solar power markets have lower prices?; Court strikes down TX suit against EPA air regs; 7 Must-Read Green Books for Your E-Reader; U.S. forest decline tied to spread of deadly virus; Supreme Court declines to hear case on climate change and Hurricane Katrina; Vertical farming: can it work? ... PLUS: Do Space Heaters Save Money and Energy? .....

STORIES DISCUSSED IN TODAY'S 'GREEN NEWS REPORT'...

• It's Official: 2010 Tied for Hottest Year on Record:
• Australia is drowing... so is China... and so is Brazil:
• • Warming of oceans driving flooding/drought extremes in Australia (Climate Signals):

    Climate change has likely intensified the monsoon rains that have triggered record floods in Australia’s Queensland state, scientists said on Wednesday, with several months of heavy rain and storms still to come.
    ...
    The rains have been blamed on one of the strongest La Nina patterns ever recorded. La Nina is a cooling of ocean temperatures in the east and central Pacific, which usually leads to more rain over much of Australia, Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia.
    ...
    “We’ve always had El Ninos and we’ve had natural variability but the background which is now operating is different,” said David Jones, head of climate monitoring and prediction at the Australia Bureau of Meteorology in Melbourne.

  • Record sea temperatures drive record rains for Australia (Climate Signals)
  • Australia floods: 'The house has gone, the car's gone – everything apart from the clothes we had on our backs': Residents tell tales of survival and sorrow after the devastating floods (Guardian UK)
  • Australian floods: rebuilding task will reach 'post-war proportions': Queensland premier Anna Bligh said the crisis was the worst natural disaster the state had experienced (Guardian UK)
  • Floods pour into Brisbane; 20,000 homes in danger (AP)
  • Floods and landslides sweep hundreds to their deaths: Rescuers battle against the devastating effects of heavy rains to save lives in Brazil, Australia, Sri Lanka and the Philippines (Guardian UK)
  • 355 die in Brazil slides, survivors relate horrors (AP)
  • Australia floods: Kindness of strangers – and brothers – as flood hits peak: News of 13-year-old hero spreads around the world as thousands flee Brisbane (Guardian UK)
  • UN agencies are aiding flood relief in Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka News)
  • VIDEO: Australia Floods Send Cars Down River

'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (Stuff we didn't have time for in today's audio report)...

• The Great Food Crisis of 2011: It's real, and it's not going away anytime soon. (Foreign Policy Magazine):

  But whereas in years past, it's been weather that has caused a spike in commodities prices, now it's trends on both sides of the food supply/demand equation that are driving up prices. On the demand side, the culprits are population growth, rising affluence, and the use of grain to fuel cars. On the supply side: soil erosion, aquifer depletion, the loss of cropland to nonfarm uses, the diversion of irrigation water to cities, the plateauing of crop yields in agriculturally advanced countries, and --- due to climate change --- crop-withering heat waves and melting mountain glaciers and ice sheets. These climate-related trends seem destined to take a far greater toll in the future.

• China's Energy Efficiency Increases 20% in 5 Years (Treehugger)
• Second police officer to infiltrate environmental activists unmasked: 'Officer A', who played key role in climate camp, has been accused of betraying friends worried by her disappearance (Guradian UK)
• Italy and Others Cited for Illegal Fishing (NYT):
  
• Why don’t larger solar power markets have lower prices? (Grist)
• Court Denies Texas Request to Halt Greenhouse Gas Permitting (Texas Tribune):
  
• 7 Must-Read Green Books for Your E-Reader (Treehugger)
• Spread of Deadly Virus Tied to Forest Decline (NYT Green)
• U.S. Supreme Court declines case blaming energy companies, global warming for Hurricane Katrina damage (Treehugger)
• Vertical Farming: Does it really stack up?: Growing crops in vertical farms in the heart of cities is said to be a greener way to produce food. But the idea is still unproven (The Economist)
• Do Space Heaters Save Money and Energy? (Mother Jones)