Westly paints green vision. If elected governor, Steve Westly says he'll extend a dinner invitation to Chinese President Hu Jintao so the two of them can set out to cut the world's oil dependence and work to save the planet from dangerous greenhouse gases. [News Source]

Unlikely fan of global warming: Poison ivy. Global warming may spell bad times for polar bears but it seems to be a boon to poison ivy. [News Source]

Climate change may spur poison ivy growth. Add another item to the list of health threats posed by global warming: poison ivy that's more poisonous, and lots more of it. [News Source]

UN Kyoto chief judges climate change options. Huge green investment into developing countries, planned under a Kyoto Protocol scheme, should tick quality of life, clean energy and climate change boxes, the UN-appointed overseer of such projects told Reuters. [News Source]

Sports offers a new arena for climate change concerns. If you're among the estimated 86 million people who will visit a U.S. beach this summer, the impact of climate change on sports and recreation is becoming very apparent. [News Source]

Study: the tropics is stretching up. From 1979 to 2005, the tropics has expanded by up to two degrees of latitude, covering a width of 220km, says American scientists on the latest issue of the Science magazine. [News Source]

Global warming threatens Baltic Sea marine life. 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]

Scourge of the greens: Clarkson branded ‘a bigoted petrolhead’. He has insisted there is almost certainly no such thing as global warming, threatened to run down cyclists who get in his way and vowed to keep his patio heater lit 24 hours a day, just to annoy Greenpeace. [News Source]

Born again. Al Gore was the nearly man of US politics, the wooden Clinton sidekick who never made it to the top job. But now he's back with a mission to save the planet - and this time he's passionate. [News Source]

FAA takes the wind out of wind farms. The federal government has stopped work on more than a dozen wind farms planned across the Midwest, saying research is needed on whether the giant turbines could interfere with military radar. [News Source]

Blueprints in green: home designs that Earth can live with. In the National Building Museum's ambitious exhibition on eco-design, there is an overarching theme: Ecological issues will dominate 21st-century architecture as modernism did the 20th century. [News Source]