continues to lie across North America.
I'll bet you didn't hear about this through the U.S. corporate media.
Continuing destruction of the natural world is affecting the health, wealth and well-being of people around the globe, according to a major UN report.
The Global Environment Outlook says most trends are going the wrong way.
It lists degradation of farmland, loss of forest cover, pollution, dwindling fresh water supplies and overfishing among society's environmental ills.
The UN Environment Programme (Unep) says there is a "remarkable lack of urgency" to reverse these trends.
"There continue to be persistent and intractable problems unresolved and unaddressed," said Unep's executive director Achim Steiner.
"Past issues remain and new ones are emerging, from the rapid rise of oxygen 'dead zones' in the oceans to the resurgence of new and old diseases linked in part with environmental degradation."
Unep concludes that the well-being of millions of people in the developing world is put at risk by failure to remedy problems which have been tackled in richer societies.
BBC has a link to the full report, which is not up yet on the UNEP web site. Sigh.
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