Nonpartisan science. NASA chief has issued guidelines guaranteeing agency scientists the freedom to speak their minds. [News Source]

New SUV standards not what they seem. The new provisions would make only modest fuel-economy improvements and would stifle state efforts to impose other pollution-fighting measures. [News Source]

Institute boosts efficiency. While there is little emphasis on conservation as part of the federal energy policy, state lawmakers have enacted many incentives to encourage conservation. [News Source]

Ozone hole closing but greenhouse gases worse, scientists say. Scientists have discovered the hole in the ozone layer is closing, but greenhouse gases are increasing. [News Source]

Oregon caves show evidence of ancient global warming. Global warming at the end of the Permian period resulted in deadly amounts of carbon dioxide that killed most land animals. [News Source]

Fire threat to peak from global warming. Global warming will spark massive moorland fires which would ravage the Peak landscape and harm the area's tourist industry, according to a new high-profile report on climate change. [News Source]

Global warming hastens seasons. Global warming has sparked a new buzz phrase – season creep. A new survey of scientific studies from across the Northern Hemisphere documents the phenomenon. [News Source]

Fight looms over license renewal. Debate this week on renewing the operating license for the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant for the next 20 years will likely continue a familiar and long-running conflict between plant operators and activists who argue that nuclear power is not safe. [News Source]

Deep-sea corals in danger. Even the coldest, darkest depths of the world's oceans can't escape the harmful effects of global warming -- and that includes deep-sea corals, local researchers have found. [News Source]

Turning up the heat. It's still no lovefest, but a number of strange bedfellows are cozying up on a subject that was once all but taboo in Washington: global warming. [News Source]

Laying waste to nuclear myths. During the ongoing debate on nuclear waste, at least four fallacies seem to have become accepted as truths. [News Source]