Pandemic panic takes off. The only stories that bumped bird flu from the news this past week were the latest reports on global warming, complete with colorful graphics showing raised temperature zones and video footage of melting glaciers. [News Source]

Cargill to use landfill gases. Plans are slowly moving forward nearly a year after Hall County agreed to sell its landfill gases to a local manufacturer as a natural energy source. [News Source]

Church denounces global warming but invests in oil. The Archbishop of Canterbury has been accused of hypocrisy for lecturing politicians on global warming while the Church of England reaps millions of pounds from shares in oil firms. [News Source]

Buds are bloomin’ early. Records showing that plants, leaves and flowers are emerging earlier in the year suggest the climate in the Northeast is getting warmer. [News Source]

Let cooler heads prevail. Why have Americans been slow to get in lock step concerning global warming? Perhaps the problem is big crusading journalism. [News Source]

The world on deathwatch. The enormous expansion of the human enterprise in recent decades has brought us to the threshold of a fundamentally new era in which environmental management must quickly emerge as the top priority of governments and peoples everywhere. [News Source]

Soon we’ll pay the true price of air travel. Scarcely audible amid the storm of financial scandal last week was the sound of Labour overshooting its target on greenhouse gas emissions. [News Source]

Good news and bad for important reef. Scientists report good news and bad news at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, an important set of coral reefs about 100 miles off the coast of Galveston. [News Source]

Climate change consensus grows. Bill Pennell, manager of the North American Research for Tropospheric Ozone, said the human impact on global warming isn’t a scientific debate. [News Source]

States take the lead. Call it the Greenhouse in the Statehouse effect. While climate change may sow no fear in the White House, plenty of worried governors, legislators, and other local officials are rejecting Washington's cue. [News Source]

What you can do right now to slow down global warming. While there is much to be done, an important part of the solution to global warming may be right in your kitchen. [News Source]