Backyards May Play Role in Climate Change (NPR) More than 5 billion tons of carbon dioxide enter the U.S. atmosphere each year. Scientists in Baltimore are studying whether backyards help absorb carbon dioxide, and by so doing, slow the pace of climate change. [News Source]

Brown backs Archbishop on the morality of climate change action (Ekklesia) UK Chancellor Gordon Brown, who has named US progressive Christian writer Jim Wallis as among his influences, has told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the Archbishop of Canterbury was right to describe action on climate change a moral necessity. [News Source]

PM should heed Mulroney’s words. Worrisome still for Canadians is the fact that climate change does not even rank as one of the Conservative government's main priorities. [News Source]

Turning point for the planet. Earth Day 2006 seems like a good time to wonder: Could this be the year, finally, for a turning point? [News Source]

Earth gives much to celebrate. As people around the world today celebrate the planet we share, humanity faces global environmental crises of towering importance and complexity: climate change, collapsing ocean ecosystems, loss of endangered species, deforestation and desertification. [News Source]

Honey, we’re scaring the care out of the kids. Well-intentioned parents and educators are running the risk of producing "ecophobia" or a fear of nature in children in an age when doom-and-gloom scenarios surround children in schools, in the media and on cereal boxes. [News Source]

Is a Severn barrage Wales’ best energy option. The resurfacing of proposals for a barrage that would cross the Severn estuary and provide tidal-generated electricity has once again highlighted the question of our future energy supplies. [News Source]

Satellites to probe the inside of clouds. Studying clouds may seem like an idle pastime, but the practice has gained a new sense of urgency in the era of global warming. [News Source]

Climate change fight ‘moral duty.’ The developed world has a moral duty to tackle climate change, Chancellor Gordon Brown has said. [News Source]

Polar bears face extinction by 2030. Polar bears will be extinct within 25 years as global warming shrinks the ice cover they rely on for feeding and giving birth. [News Source]

B.C.’s pine forests dying from plague. British Columbia hasn't been this warm in 8,000 years, and the winters are no longer cold enough to keep pine beetles in check. [News Source]