The U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) report on climate change shows that fifteen percent of people in the Arab world already have limited or no access to potable water.

Climate change is likely to bring more rain to China's northeastern bread basket, but too late in the year to benefit crops, seriously threatening a major region for wheat, corn and rice as reported in "From bread basket to dust bowl". The report highlights how complicated the impact of climate change may be in many areas, and also the threats it poses to China's food supplies.

Fast-melting ice from Greenland and Antarctica will lead to a much sharper rise in sea levels than previously estimated, touching off flooding that will radically alter U.S. East Coast cities from Miami to Baltimore, according to a new study.

Climate change is helping British wine-makers to revive a lost tradition of making red wines. Red wines need warmth and sunshine the most and recent mild winters and springs are helping to grow right kind of grapes to produce quality red wines. Red wine making has also stared in Germany and other parts of France not previously used to grow types grapes used for red wines.

More than a hundred people have died and many are missing after heavy rains triggered flooding and mudslides in El Salvador. The heavy rains were apparently related to a low-pressure system out of the Pacific rather than Hurricane Ida, which headed north-northwest toward the Gulf Coast.

The United Nations has lowered its expectations for securing a legally binding agreement at a U.N. climate change summit in Copenhagen in December. In spite of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and other top officials efforts at the United Nations to bring together industrialized and developing nations and to overcome their differences, U.N.