Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.

Mr. [Vernon] Weaver didn't call directly very often; he would ask you to call for him. Is that correct?

After all, game shows are not like working in a coal mine.

In a lot of ways, Nauru is something like a canary in a coal mine: It's a tiny place with more than its share of troubles, most of them the kind that might have been prevented.

We are taking action to ameliorate the effects of this more challenging trading climate by continuing to bear down on costs across the group as well as finding more cost effective ways of increasing sales.

They are closing the mine in two weeks, they say. Six days a week bumping down in the gondola, pecking out the rocks and hauling them back up, doing it again the next day for twenty-seven years, one cave-in, three thin raises, and a failed strike. Where am I going to go every day, what am I going to do with all that sunshine?