Corporate America warms to fight against global warming (USA Today) Corporate America, which once regarded cries of "global warming" about as favorably as The Communist Manifesto, increasingly is embracing the need to reduce human contributions to the planet's rising temperatures. Corporations also foresee the prospect of fat profits from new products friendly to the environment. [News Source]

One Colorado family leads by example to curb global warming (USA Today) Will Toor and his family are doing what experts say must be done if Americans are going to make a difference in efforts to slow global warming. The Boulder family's energy-efficient home produces one-quarter the carbon emissions of the typical Colorado household. [News Source]

GLW On Climate change: Nuclear Is No Solution! (Scoop.co.nz) Climate Change: Nuclear Is No Solution! Despite being seen as a climate change “renegade”, Prime Minister John Howard is currently attempting to gain “greenie” points by pushing for acceptance of “cleaner and greener” nuclear power as the solution to global warming. [News Source]

Al Gore Sounds Global Warming Alert (NPR) The new documentary An Inconvenient Truth is an important counterbalance to the misinformation about global warming, say Al Gore and film producer Laurie David. The movie is based on the former vice president's slideshow presentation on climate change. [News Source]

2 new studies link hurricane intensity and global warming (International Herald Tribune) Climate researchers at Purdue University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology separately reported new evidence Tuesday supporting the idea that global warming is causing stronger hurricanes. [News Source]

Climate change could fuel fiercer hurricane cycles (AFP via Yahoo! News) Human-induced climate change could be fueling increasingly active and deadly hurricane cycles, US researchers said, a day ahead of the official Atlantic hurricane season's start on Thursday. [News Source]

Turning the tide on climate change (Expatica) The EU has launched in Brussels a climate change awareness campaign urging the public to take the future of the planet into their own hands. So what can you do to reduce the greenhouse effect? Aaron Gray-Block reports. [News Source]

Global warming threatens marine life (Independent Online) Global warming is adding new threats to marine life in the almost land-locked Baltic Sea, where fish are already struggling in polluted, brackish waters, a leading expert said. [News Source]

Global warming threatens Baltic Sea marine life (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Global warming is adding new threats to marine life in the almost land-locked Baltic Sea, where fish are already struggling in polluted, brackish waters, a leading expert said on Wednesday. [News Source]

Iemma rocks boat on push for nuclear power. Nuclear power was not a solution to climate change, the Premier Morris Iemma said yesterday in a speech in which he criticised the Federal Government. [News Source]

Deserts shrinking by 7,585 sq km annually. China's deserts are shrinking by 7,585 sq km annually, compared with an annual expansion of 10,400 sq km at the end of last century, a senior forestry official said. [News Source]