Climate change to worsen melioidosis outbreaks: expert (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) A leading expert in tropical diseases says the Top End can expect more severe outbreaks of melioidosis as a result of climate change. Professor Bart Currie, from the Menzies School of Health Research, was speaking at a Charles Darwin University symposium. [News Source]

Climate change to worsen melioidosis outbreaks: expert (ABC via Yahoo! Australia & NZ News) A leading expert in tropical diseases says the Top End can expect more severe outbreaks of melioidosis as a result of climate change. [News Source]

Pollution greenhouse gases and climate clash in South Asia. A new scientific analysis of climate and air pollution in the Indian Ocean region indicates big changes may be in store for the world's most populous region. [News Source]

Offshore wind farm is approved. A proposal to build the biggest offshore wind farm in the nation won approval yesterday from Texas state officials, the latest development in the fast-growing segment of the alternative-energy industry. [News Source]

Ottawa wants Kyoto softened. In its first official statement to the world on climate change, the Conservative government has signalled it is willing to keep Canada in the Kyoto Protocol after 2012, but only if it gets breaks on meeting the targets. [News Source]

Scientists explain how they attribute climate-change data. For laypeople, one of the toughest things about science isn't understanding what science knows, but grasping how it knows what it knows. Case in point: climate change. [News Source]

No doubt about it, the world is warming. Global warming contrarians can cross out one of their last talking points. A report released last week settles the debate over how the atmosphere has been warming the past 35 years. [News Source]

Canada’s infrastructure at risk of failure due to climate change, says report (CP via Yahoo! Canada News) OTTAWA (CP) - Canada's bridges, sewers, roads and buildings are at risk of failure because of climate change over the next 50 years, says a new study by Environment Canada. [News Source]

Is Global Warming Making Hurricanes Worse? (Time Magazine) Last fall's hurricanes Katrina and Rita were extremely powerful; global warming theory predicts that hurricanes will become more powerful. A coincidence? [News Source]

Council in climate change action (BBC News) The residents of Brighton and Hove are to get a say on the council's Climate Change Action Plan. [News Source]

Climate change may have caused extinctions (UPI) FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 11 (UPI) -- A U.S. researcher has concluded climate change might have helped cause the extinction of mammoths and other mammals more than 10,000 years ago. [News Source]