Global warming puts 12 US parks at risk: report (RedNova) By Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Global warming puts 12 of the most famous U.S. [News Source]

Scientists warn against climate change ‘hysteria’ (Stuff) A group of scientists has written to MPs asking for a Royal Commission to be established to investigate climate change. [News Source]

Dirty power plants. Environmental Defense reacts to Texas Comptroller Carol Keeton Strayhorn's statements regarding fast-tracked dirty coal power plants. [News Source]

A month on, monsoon plays truant. Nearly a month after the monsoons were officially declared, city residents are still looking heavenward, waiting for the skies to be benign. [News Source]

Organic alternative. From the temple of all things eco-green, Americans increasingly are hearing a food calling, making choices based not just on how foods will taste for dinner, but on how they are raised and their consequent impacts on the environment. [News Source]

Wind farm delays pit senators against FAA. U.S. Sens. Barack Obama and Dick Durbin are blocking the appointment of a top aviation official in hopes of forcing the federal government to resolve a dispute that has stopped work on more than a dozen wind farms in the Midwest. [News Source]

Former Japanese F-1 driver to race Dakar rally on “tempura oil”. A Japanese research team plans to create environmental awareness by entering a race car in the Dakar rally that runs on cooking oil used to fry tempura. [News Source]

Global warming puts 12 US parks at risk: report (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Global warming puts 12 of the most famous U.S. national parks at risk, environmentalists said on Tuesday, conjuring up visions of Glacier National Park without glaciers and Yellowstone Park without grizzly bears. [News Source]

Parks threatened by global warming (Rocky Mountain News) Rocky Mountain National Park and Mesa Verde are two of 10 national parks that are particularly threatened by global warming, according to a report issued today. [News Source]

Safe storage for nuclear waste.

Today, the twin specters of rising oil prices and global warming have prompted a rethinking of the nuclear-energy option.

Coral reefs in a bad way. Researchers are probing whether sewage and other pollution are damaging coral reefs that help protect coastal areas from storm surges. [News Source]