Gore Debuts Global Warming Film (AP via Yahoo! News) Former Vice President Al Gore debuted his global-warming documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," Wednesday night to a Washington audience that included members of Congress and Queen Noor of Jordan. [News Source]

INTERVIEW - Transport a Black Spot for Global Warming - UN (Planet Ark) BONN - Transport is the worst offender for releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and governments must do more to cut emissions from cars and trucks, the UN's climate change chief said on Wednesday. [News Source]

AIG adopts first policy on global climate change (Manila Bulletin) NEW YORK, May 17 (Reuters) — American International Group Inc. this week became the first major US insurer to adopt a policy on climate change, saying it would develop projects to keep greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. [News Source]

Coral reefs suffer unrecoverable damage from global warming. Researchers suggest global warming has had a more devastating effect on some of the world's finest coral reefs than previously assumed. [News Source]

Climate change threatens millions, says Christian charity. Developed countries have been urged to slash carbon dioxide emissions by two-thirds by the year 2050 to reduce global warming which poses a threat to human health, particularly in Africa. [News Source]

AIG adopts first policy on global climate change. American International Group Inc. this week became the first major US insurer to adopt a policy on climate change, saying it would develop projects to keep greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. [News Source]

Climate threat to glaciers on Mountains of the Moon. Glaciers in equatorial Africa that are one of the ultimate sources of the River Nile will disappear within two decades from the fabled Mountains of the Moon because of global warming. [News Source]

PM backs new wave of nuclear power stations. Tony Blair has agreed to the building of a new generation of nuclear power stations on the grounds that they would guarantee energy supplies and tackle climate change. [News Source]

Carbon trading’s real colours. There are no shortage of nightmare consequences that could result from rampant global warming. So it's all the more worrying that cracks are already appearing in one of the industrialised world's most publicised weapons for fighting climate change. [News Source]

What’s kind to nature can be kind to profits. Green is in fashion-- the new black, the must-have, this decade's version of business imperatives like "total quality management" or "management by objective. [News Source]

Companies and critics try collaboration. If politics makes for strange bedfellows, global warming, dwindling water supplies and scary new technologies have made for even stranger ones. Environmentalists and corporations are engaging in a new spirit of compromise. [News Source]