Study: More carbon dioxide makes more noxious poison ivy. The noxious vine grows faster and bigger as carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere rise, researchers report Monday. [News Source]

Projections see global warming erasing state park, Port Newark. The world's rising seas could one day swallow Liberty State Park and Port Newark. The shores of Gold Coast property from Bayonne to Edgewater could be overrun by the Hudson River. [News Source]

New forecast: Hot and hotter. If Earth's past climate cycles are any indication, temperatures could be significantly hotter by the end of the century than current climate models predict. [News Source]

Gore in Hay climate change plea. Former US vice-president Al Gore owned up to failing to get his climate change message across as a politician when he appeared at the Hay Festival. [News Source]

A warmer world may, or may not, be wetter. If warming continues at its present pace, stand by for more and higher water along the coasts as the oceans rise. But elsewhere in the country, precipitation will be key -- and unpredictable. [News Source]

FirstEnergy plant selected for study on greenhouse gases. The U.S. Department of Energy has picked an eastern Ohio coal-fired power plant as a test site to determine whether carbon dioxide emissions can be reduced by injecting the emissions far below the ground. [News Source]

Eminence grise of hurricane forecasting. A mile above sea level, surrounded by gunmetal-gray filing cabinets and floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, sits the man many consider the dean of hurricane forecasting in the United States. [News Source]

How you could save the planet. Carbon neutralising is the must-do activity for those in the public eye who want to emphasise their environmental credentials. [News Source]

British Columbia forest industry braces for global warming. A new report for B.C.'s forests ministry stresses the need to adapt to higher average temperatures. [News Source]

Community carbon. As part of a new California initiative, Arcata could get credit for its forest management scheme, in which it grows more than it cuts. [News Source]

Clean-air group urges executives to see film. The Ontario Clean Air Alliance urged its members yesterday to invite senior executives of major industrial power users to see An Inconvenient Truth. [News Source]