Canada reduces climate change funding: PM (AFP via Yahoo! News) Prime Minister Stephen Harper confirmed that Canada has reduced funding for some programs designed to fight global warming but denied a newspaper report that more cuts were planned. [News Source]

The great Atlantic shutdown. Are changes in ocean circulation caused by global warming about to turn our lives upside down, or is this something only our grandchildren will have to cope with? [News Source]

Ottawa plan hacks green programs. The new Conservative government has decided to slash spending on programs designed to fight global warming. [News Source]

University of Minnesota finds plants won’t save us from global warming. Plants won't suck up as much of the carbon dioxide contributing to global warming as scientists had hoped. [News Source]

View on emission measures revisited. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday sought to dispel the notion that he has backtracked from tough measures to combat global warming, saying he "can live" with capping greenhouse gas emissions by 2012. [News Source]

EU CO2 emission prices hit new record high. European carbon dioxide emission prices briefly jumped to new record highs on Wednesday, boosted by surging oil prices and strong German power markets. [News Source]

A heated debate on ocean warming. While researchers and environmentalists trade barbs about whether global warming or just a cyclical climatic event is causing the temperature up tick, the result is plain to see – more frequent and intense tropical storm activity. [News Source]

Environmental cost of flights tiny, claims new BA chief. The chief executive of British Airways has hit back at his environmentalist critics, claiming the impact of aviation on global warming is "minuscule". [News Source]

‘Carbon tax’ to compensate for G8 presidency aviation. A carbon "tax" will raise £100,000 to compensate for the 10,000 tons of carbon dioxide caused by extra air travel associated with Britain's presidency of the G8 and the summit at Gleneagles last year. [News Source]

Europe’s Venus Express enters orbit. Europe's first space probe to Venus slipped smoothly into orbit on Tuesday in a mission designed to send back data from a planet whose extreme atmosphere conceals important similarities with the Earth. [News Source]

Environmentalists call on Harper to support Kyoto. Alberta environmental groups are calling on the Harper government to make good on Canada’s commitment to the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas reductions. [News Source]