Environmental Crises in the news

So The Straits Times today is full of bad news… let me just list a few of the headlines:

• Floods unavoidable after ‘extraordinary rainfall’: Limited space for run-offs for canals, says MM Lee (Prime, A1)
• More heavy rain ahead, warns weatherman (Prime, A1 & cont on A6)
• Rain from China storm heading for Singapore (Prime A4, A6, A8, A10-11)
• 100mm: Expect floods if this much rain falls in an hour (Prime, A8) (For PUB’s list of floor prone areas, click here)
• 700 killed so far in China floods (Prime, A10)
• Millions around Indian Ocean at risk from rising sea levels: Study (Prime, A10)
• Latin America in grip of deep freeze: Dozens die: cold snap hits tropical areas too (Prime, A11)
• Gas crisis looms in Malaysia: It’ll need to import gas unless KL overhauls costly subsidy policy (a good read!!) (Prime, A14)
• Substation blast causes blackout in Jakarta (Prime, A15)
• China: ‘Severe threat to sea life’ as slick spreads (referring to the Dalian oil spill over the weekend) (Prime, A22)
• Toxic waste leak: 2 top environmental officials held – Toxic wastewater leaking from Zijinshan Copper Mine on July 3 contaminated the Ting river, killing nearly (and get this!) 1,900 tonnes of fish (Prime, A22)
• Gulf oil spill could cost 100,000 jobs, says study (Prime, A23)

And that’s just the Prime section! My goodness.