Disaster tourists flock to Eiger. The spectacular mass of rock breaking off the Eiger mountain has become an unexpected tourist attraction for the resort of Grindelwald. It was caused by a glacier's retreat, linked to global warming. [News Source]

Blair confident of practical energy-saving measures on global warming. Tony Blair hopes to force climate change back onto the agenda at the G8 summit - even if only in private talks with other leaders. [News Source]

Weather pushes insurance premiums. Insurance premiums are likely to rise as a result of the increasing frequency of destructive weather events associated with climate change. [News Source]

Hot — and getting hotter. The current warmer-than-normal temperatures are a continuation of a record-setting trend, here and across the country, for the first part of 2006. [News Source]

Peak time to track global warming. University of Colorado biologists began installing an alarm system atop Mount Albion, near the Continental Divide west of Boulder. [News Source]

Putting New Orleans on the green line. The first lady and Brad Pitt hope to create affordable housing and a community center as models of energy-efficient, ecologically friendly design. [News Source]

Renewable energy vital, says Welsh Seretary. Peter Hain officially opened the Ffynnon Oer Wind Farm yesterday on Neath hills overlooking Swansea Bay. [News Source]

Utilities bid for $1B clean-power plants. A Colorado mountainside, the high plains of Wyoming or the Dakota prairie may become the next proving ground for a gee-whiz technology to clean up coal-fired power plants. [News Source]

Heat, ozone levels to soar. Delaware Air Quality program manager Ray Malenfant issued a right-to-the-point heat wave forecast for the next few days late Friday afternoon. [News Source]

Coal-fired plant moves forward. A large and controversial coal-fired power plant near the South Dakota-Minnesota border was unanimously endorsed Friday by South Dakota regulators. [News Source]

Industry economist says oil profit tax a mistake. Pension funds and shareholders would suffer if politicians succeed in taxing the profit gains oil companies are making, the American Petroleum Institute's chief economist said Friday. [News Source]