Global Warming and Climate Change News

FEATURE - Global Warming Hits Canada’s Remotest Arctic Lands (Planet Ark)
Sunday April 23rd 2006, 9:01 pm

RESOLUTE BAY, Nunavut - Even in one of the remotest, coldest and most inhospitable parts of Canada's High Arctic, you cannot escape the signs of global warming. [News Source]

Spectacular orchids double due to global warming (Independent)
Sunday April 23rd 2006, 7:27 pm

It is not only in the icefields and glaciers of the Arctic, visited in a blaze of publicity last week by the Tory leader David Cameron, that the signs of global warming can be found. [News Source]

Global warming’s PR problem (International Herald Tribune)
Sunday April 23rd 2006, 11:43 am

There is enough static in the air to simultaneously confuse, alarm and paralyze the public. Is global warming now a reality? What do scientists know for sure and when are they just guessing? [News Source]

Bush touts a fuel for the future on Earth Day, he says hydrogen can ease oil dependence.
Sunday April 23rd 2006, 7:00 am

President Bush declared hydrogen the fuel of the future in an Earth Day speech that highlighted the second day of his visit to California, a state that has continually clashed with the president over environmental policy. [News Source]

Scientists warn of threat to coral reefs.
Sunday April 23rd 2006, 7:00 am

-Warmer sea temperatures could worsen the widespread destruction of coral reefs that hit the Caribbean in 2005. [News Source]

Tapping into a changing climate.
Sunday April 23rd 2006, 7:00 am

A Vermont family is seeing maple-sugaring season come far earlier than usual. Experts say it may be an indicator of a wider global trend. [News Source]

Early signs: Bangladesh.
Sunday April 23rd 2006, 7:00 am

The most populated nation directly in the crosshairs of global warming is Bangladesh. With tens of millions of people living at or just slightly above sea level, many could be forced to flee their homes before the century is out. [News Source]

Laurie David Raises Awareness of Global Warming (New York Times)
Sunday April 23rd 2006, 4:58 am

Laurie David's "Too Hot Not to Handle" is a sober documentary, full of leading scientists and statistics explaining how global warming is already upon us. [News Source]

Climate change calls for wiser planning.
Sunday April 23rd 2006, 4:00 am

The critical nature of climate change makes me wonder if some of our changes ought to be completely structural. [News Source]

Rising gas prices a signal to think about alternate fuels.
Sunday April 23rd 2006, 4:00 am

I curse as loudly as anyone when I see those gas prices. But what we consumers are getting now is a great big price signal. The market is shouting to us loud and clear -- "Change your driving habits, you morons." [News Source]

Global warming for ages 10 and up.
Sunday April 23rd 2006, 4:00 am

Andrew Revkin, science reporter for the New York Times, has a new book out about global warming called “The North Pole Was Here,” and it's geared for young readers. [News Source]