Giant, mutant, itchier poison ivy! Duke researchers confirm what foresters have noticed for years: The greenhouse effect is a gas for the virulent vines. [News Source]

Now you can save the planet even after you’ve died. Using energy-saving light-bulbs and abandoning gas-guzzling cars are among the lifestyle changes adopted to combat climate change. Now the environmentally conscious are being asked to go one step further and help save the planet after death. [News Source]

Scotland ‘a refuge from rising seas.’ More than two billion people could see their homes disappear under water when pollution melts the polar ice caps, creating the biggest refugee crisis the world has ever seen. [News Source]

Utah Valley Energy looks to turn trash into power. Utah Valley Energy, a new energy company, is proposing to convert trash into electricity. [News Source]

Capping the greenhouse. For more than two years, the Romney administration led a regional initiative to put limits on the greenhouse gas emissions of the area's electric power producers. [News Source]

Nuclear power: The shape of things to come. The agency in charge of promoting nuclear power in America describes a new generation of reactors that will be “highly economical” with “enhanced safety”, that “minimise wastes” and will prove “proliferation resistant”. Unfortunately, fine words are not enough. [News Source]

Bags of potential to help save the environment. The news that Ikea is set to become the first retailer in Britain to charge customers for its plastic bags may seem, at first sight, a fairly insignificant step in the battle to improve our environment, yet the decision must be viewed as a welcome and important event. [News Source]

Greenhouse-gas goobers. Bush's logic was nonsensical. The debate over whether greenhouse gas buildup is natural or man-made can't just be put aside. Either burning fossil fuels is making the Earth warmer, or it's not. [News Source]

Junketing judges: A case of bad science. Just how far will corporate lobbyists go to tilt governmental decisions in their favor? [News Source]

Stem the tide. North Carolina's coastal counties are being spoiled by rampant development. Preventive measures need to be taken, soon. [News Source]

In Florida, global warming too important for partisanship. One of the tactics most often used by the oil industry and others who oppose controlling global-warming pollution is to try to reduce the debate to partisan politics -- to make it into a so-called wedge issue that divides Republicans and Democrats. [News Source]