Debate over global warming (BBC News) How cities can combat climate change is discussed at the annual State of London Debate. [News Source]

Why global warming is to blame for Britain’s hay fever epidemic. The pollen from trees and grasses that produces allergic reactions in millions of people is steadily increasing with rising temperatures, according to the UK's leading pollen specialist. [News Source]

Vital bay grass can’t take heat. Some scientists believe global warming contributed to a widespread die-off of eelgrass last summer in a section of the Chesapeake Bay that is the core of the region's crab industry. [News Source]

EU undershoots emissions cap that critics call lax. Most EU members undershot their limits for greenhouse gas emissions last year, accidentally leaked data showed, suggesting the bloc had been far too generous in handing out permits to pollute. [News Source]

Five British firms to sue EC over CO2 allowances as price falls. The EU's carbon emissions trading scheme (ETS) hit renewed turbulence yesterday when CO2 prices fell to a fresh one-year low and it emerged that five UK energy groups are suing the European commission over cuts in their allowances. [News Source]

Ministers ‘are failing to live up to their green rhetoric’. Tony Blair has been accused of presiding over a "yawning gap" between rhetoric and reality on green energy after a survey of the major Whitehall departments showed they were spending little or nothing generating their own environmentally friendly power. [News Source]

New UK environment minister says nuclear an option. Britain's new environment minister David Miliband today said nuclear power had to remain an option as the country studied how to meet its international obligations to tackle global warming. [News Source]

Science’s battle against elements. A Norfolk stately home is at the forefront of the battle between Mother Nature and man - as scientists use the house to develop ways of protecting it against the onslaught of moss, mould and flash floods. [News Source]

Alliant defends plans for coal plant. Alliant Energy Corp. Chairman gave a spirited defense of its planned new coal plant in Cassville, Wisconsin, responding to calls from environmental groups to deploy an emerging form of technology that pollutes far less than those under construction today. [News Source]

Short winter driving season gets even shorter. This past winter, warmer than usual temperatures kept the ice on frozen lakes too thin to support full transportation loads to the Northwest Territories. [News Source]

Officials urge early preparation. Thousands of emergency managers, officials and volunteers were asked to take home one message from this week's annual state hurricane conference -- the need to push personal preparedness. [News Source]