‘(Reuters) – New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday announced a $20 billion plan to prepare for rising sea levels and hotter summers expected as a result of climate change in the coming decades.’

via New York lays out $20 billion plan to adapt to climate change | Reuters.

‘The Bloomberg administration on Monday issued new warnings about New York City’s vulnerability to climate change, offering updated data to encourage businesses, residents and perhaps even future mayors to better prepare against hotter weather, fiercer storms and increased rainfall.’

via New York City Faces Increasing Risk From Climate Change, New Data Show – NYTimes.com.

‘NEW YORK (AP) — The projections paint an unsettling picture of New York’s future: a city where by the 2050s, 800,000 people could be living in a flood zone that would cover a quarter of the land, and there could be as many 90-degree days as is now normal for Birmingham, Ala.’

via Mayor to discuss prepping NYC for warming world – Yahoo! News.

‘LONDON, June 10 Reuters – China led a rise in global carbon dioxide emissions to a record high in 2012, more than offsetting falls in the United States and Europe, the International Energy Agency IEA said on Monday.’

via Global carbon emissions hit record high in 2012 | Reuters.

‘(Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, agreed on Saturday to cooperate in fighting climate change by cutting the use of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, the White House said a statement.’

via U.S., China agree to reduce use of hydrofluorocarbons | Reuters.

‘OSLO, June 9 (Reuters) – Climate change is likely to worsen floods on rivers such as the Ganges, the Nile and the Amazon this century while a few, including the now-inundated Danube, may become less prone, a Japanese-led scientific study said on Sunday.’

via Ganges, Nile and Amazon seen suffering more floods from warming | Reuters.

‘The owners of the San Onofre nuclear power plant in Southern California, which has been shut since January 2012, said on Friday that they would close it permanently because of uncertainty over when it could be reopened.’

via San Onofre Nuclear Plant in California to Close – NYTimes.com.

‘Southern California Edison announced Friday it would shut down the troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant.

The move comes 17 months after the San Onofre plant was closed because of problems in steam generator systems. The plant powered about 1.4 million households in Southern California before the outage.’

via Edison will shut down the San Onofre nuclear plant for good – latimes.com.

‘Slick towers in a tropical island cave provide a 100,000-year climate record rivaling Greenland’s pristine ice cores, scientists say.’

via Tropical Caves Fill Gap in Climate Record – Yahoo! News.

‘A leak led to an investigation and then a shutdown. Now, more than a year later, two reactors inside the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) will be retired.’

via Socal Edison Retiring San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station | NBC 7 San Diego.