Top News: Rising sea levels and falling river water volumes – as forecast in the latest UN report on climate change – could drastically alter weather patterns and cause huge economic losses in China, a senior meteorological official has warned. The China Daily quoted Luo Yong, deputy director of the Beijing Climate Center affiliated to the China Meteorological Administration (CMA), as saying that there would be more typhoons, floods and land subsidence as a result of global warming. The …