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]

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]

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]

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]