Scientists: Warm seas threaten coral. Caribbean Sea temperatures have reached their annual high two months ahead of schedule -- a sign coral reefs may suffer the same widespread damage as last year, scientists said Monday. [News Source]

Project tracks how global warming is affecting our rising sea levels. Nothing is more romantic than frothy waves breaking on a Bermuda beach, and nothing is more of a nightmare than those same waves breaking against your front porch. [News Source]

Environmental work honored. The town of Natick's state legislators will be honored tomorrow for their work pressing for passage of legislation to limit the amount of carbon dioxide gases produced by power plants in Massachusetts. [News Source]

Northland expedition reaches the pole. After years of preparation and one aborted mission, Grand Marais adventurers Lonnie Dupre and Eric Larsen reached the North Pole on Saturday, making theirs the first polar expedition to reach the pole during the summer. [News Source]

NASA’s climate science ‘in moth-balls’. The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), designed to measure the Earth's solar energy balance and which has already been built, is grounded at Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, after the agency cancelled it. [News Source]

Drive to make fuel from plants gets a boost. The ability to make fuel efficiently from virtually any kind of plant is within reach, offering a technology that could benefit the environment and slash dependence on foreign oil. [News Source]

Dealer is looking smart. DaimlerChrysler announced last week that U.S. consumers will finally get its tiny Smart car in 2008, but a car dealer in Kirkland that got smart a long time ago already has sold 80 of them since February. [News Source]

Mayor takes drought campaign to garden. With southeastern England in the grip of a drought, London mayor Ken Livingstone has taken his water-saving campaign into the city's gardens. [News Source]

Blair suggests mind made up on nuclear power. Prime Minister Tony Blair gave his firmest signal yet on Tuesday that a review of energy policy will call for the replacement of the country's ageing nuclear power stations. [News Source]

Couple’s vision is greener power in Dales. One Yorkshire couple are taking the concept of being green to another level with a proposal to generate the electricity for an entire district with locally-produced food waste. [News Source]

A heatwave so fierce we need to splash out. Wales will continue to sweat in sweltering temperatures this week with the current heatwave lasting past Wednesday. [News Source]