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THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE NEWS Monday, 10 July 2006 Other Environment News Putin Pledges to Raise NGO Nuclear, Climate Concerns at G8 Summit (Environmental News Service) Overfishing Among Threats to Ecosystems (Associated Press) Plumbing the depths -- Carbon sequestration (The Economist) Scientists sound alarm for worlds amphibians (Chicago Tribune) Study links increase in wildfires to global warming (The Boston Globe) L’ouest du Canada ravagé par les flammes (Futura Sciences) Protección Civil alerta a diez comunidades por las altas temperaturas (La Vanguardia) Hartford Courant (Connecticut): The Insurance Industry Is Feeling The Heat Of Global Warming La vidange de deux lacs géants dans locéan a provoqué le dernier cataclysme climatique (Le Monde) Living with Arctic climate change (BBC) Environmental News from the UNEP Regions ROAP ROWA Other UN News UN Daily News of 7 July 2006 S.G.’s Spokesman Daily Press Briefing of 7 July 2006 The Sunday Times (UK): Climate change brings Eiger to earthSteven Swinford9.7.2006A SLAB of rock weighing millions of tons is poised to break away from the Eiger, one of Europes most treacherous mountains, and crash into the valley below, a geologist has warned.Hans-Rudolf Keusen, who monitors the Bernese Alps for the Swiss government, said 2m cubic metres of the Eiger mountain are set to collapse, in what would be Europes biggest rock fall for 15 years.The limestone slab is equivalent in volume to two Empire State Buildings. It will be a spectacular sight, said Keusen. There arent any houses underneath, so nobody is going to get hit by a rock on the head. Keusen first spotted the fissure between the limestone slab and the rockface at the beginning of June. It measured 8in then, but has since widened to just over 16ft and is growing at a rate of 35in a day.According to Keusen, the crack has been caused by the retreat of the Grindelwald glacier, which previously supported the rockface.