Britain Appoints Climate Change Ambassador (Planet Ark) LONDON - British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett, credited with helping to push global warming up the international agenda last year, ratcheted up her campaign on Thursday by appointing a climate change ambassador. [News Source]

Animals evolve to keep pace with global warming (Times Online) GLOBAL warming is already influencing the evolution of some animals, according to research that attributes genetic changes to rising temperatures. Scientists have identified heritable genetic changes among squirrels, birds and insects that appear to be evolved adaptations to a warmer world. [News Source]

Global warming has forced animals to evolve already (Independent) Some species of animals are changing genetically in order to adapt to rapid climate change within just a few generations, scientists believe. [News Source]

Health professionals must help tackle climate change (EurekAlert!) Climate change is a major public health threat which health professionals must help to tackle, argues an expert in this week's BMJ. [News Source]

Movie review: ‘Truth’ and dare (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) Hot enough for you? Even in the air-conditioned cocoon of a movie theater, Al Gore's primer on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth," will have viewers wiping away sweat. It paints an unnervingly convincing picture of manmade climate change that is pushing our planet toward meltdown. Gore's movie has three objectives: to inform viewers of the facts, persuade them to act and entertain in the [News Source]

Steelworkers and Sierra Club unite. After decades of fighting between blue-collar unions and green activists, the steelworkers and the Sierra Club say they will use the alliance to battle for energy independence and against global warming and toxic pollutants. [News Source]

New data clearly links storms and warming. Stronger and more frequent hurricanes in summer and stronger winter storms are clearly the result of climate change, according to new scientific studies. [News Source]

Australia gets tough on water. A lack of rainfall, drought and fears over global warming have forced many local authorities to introduce tough restrictions on consumption. [News Source]

Researcher alleges climate cover-up. The American public is not hearing the full story on global warming because Bush administration officials are muzzling government scientists, a top climate researcher said Wednesday. [News Source]

Experts warn: prepare for rising seas, storms . Several environmental experts warned mayors and elected officials of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast to prepare for the worst case scenario given New Orleans proximity to the continuously warming and rising Atlantic Ocean. [News Source]

Heat on wheat: $1b loss feared. The rise in temperatures and lower rainfall brought about by worsening greenhouse gas pollution would cut yields because of shorter growing periods and new pests and diseases. [News Source]