United States: Global warming threatens Delta islands, water supply

Sacramento Bee: On New Year's weekend, Barbara Flores went three days without sleep, and not because she was partying. Flores and other anxious residents of Sherman Island, on the western edge of the Delta, spent the opening days of 2006 battling one of the biggest floods they'd ever seen. Waters rose to the crest of the island's levees. Wind-whipped spray from crashing waves blew over the levee in a stinging fusillade, threatening to flood the island. "We came close. Real ...