UNESCO Adopts Climate Change Strategy for World Heritage Sites (Environment News Service) VILNIUS, Lithiuana , July 11, 2006 (ENS) - The UNESCO World Heritage Committee on Monday adopted a strategy of response to the threat that climate change poses to many World Heritage sites such as Mount Everest in Nepal and Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The committee decided that sites affected by climate change could be inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger, on a case by case [News Source]

Flooding hot spots mapped. The good news is that flooding hot spots in the city have been mapped out and prioritized for infrastructure upgrades; the bad news is that the work will take at least 10 years because of funding constraints. [News Source]

Dallas, Houston mayors gear up to fight coal plants. In a move pitting Texas cities against utility companies, Dallas Mayor Laura Miller and Houston Mayor Bill White have teamed up to urge mayors of other big cities to fight dirty technology proposed for 17 new coal-fired power plants. [News Source]

Dallas, Houston mayors gear up to fight coal plants. In a move pitting Texas cities against utility companies, Dallas Mayor Laura Miller and Houston Mayor Bill White have teamed up to urge mayors of other big cities to fight dirty technology proposed for 17 new coal-fired power plants in the state. [News Source]

Climate Report Sees a Thirsty Future: Global Warming Will Shrink State’s Water Supplies but Trigger Floods, Study Warns. (RedNova) By Matt Weiser, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Jul. 11--As global warming continues and California's mountain snowpack decreases, the state can expect to see a drastic drop in its drinking and farm water supplies, as well as more frequent winter flooding. [News Source]

UK boosts nuclear lobby in global warming battle (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Britain has given the world nuclear power industry a boost, saying it is key in the fight against global warming and the need to secure energy supplies. [News Source]

Napa Threatened By Global Warming (KGO-TV Bay Area) Is global warming threatening Napa Valley's wine region? A startling new report suggests it may indeed. [News Source]

UK says atomic power needed to fight global warming (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Britain said on Tuesday it needed new nuclear power plants, more electricity from wind and waves and cuts in energy consumption to fight global warming and reduce rising dependence on imported oil and gas. [News Source]

Meadowlands vows to stay green.

The New Jersey Meadowlands Commission announced Monday that it will adhere to the Kyoto Protocol, reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the Meadowlands District to 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012.

Political winds favor coal, not N. Texas air. As Texas power companies lead the nation's biggest shift to burning cheaper coal instead of cleaner natural gas, holes have opened in the system intended to protect Texans from dirty air. [News Source]

Climate report sees a thirsty future. As global warming continues and California's mountain snowpack decreases, the state can expect to see a drastic drop in its drinking and farm water supplies, as well as more frequent winter flooding. [News Source]