State lawmakers offer bills to fight global warming. As California swelters through a record heat wave, Golden State Democrats say they are hot to move on global warming legislation. [News Source]

Santa Cruz and the rise of global warming. A committee, headed up by environment councillor Ramón González Mesa, is doing some blue sky thinking, studying how to cope with future rising sea levels in the face of the much debated melting polar caps scenario. [News Source]

Lawmakers discuss greenhouse gases. Local lawmakers and environmentalists gathered in Evanston to urge residents and politicians to fight global warming. [News Source]

Asking for trouble at water’s edge. Ten climate scientists warned Tuesday that hurricanes will inflict heavier human and property losses in coming years. [News Source]

Heat wave shows limits of nuclear energy. The extreme hot summer in Europe is restricting nuclear energy generation and showing up the limits of nuclear power, leading environmental activists and scientists say. [News Source]

Report damns power scheme. Parliament's top environmental watchdog has hit out at plans for a coal-fired Marsden B power station, saying it's a kneejerk reaction to energy problems and not in New Zealand's long-term interest. [News Source]

Environmentalists urge reduced wind farm. A week before hearings on a controversial wind farm project are scheduled to begin, an influential environmental group is calling for deep changes in the proposal. [News Source]

Shock wind plans. Several sites are earmarked for wind farms under a new scheme from Somerset County Council. [News Source]

Builders get green deadline. Developers have been told to start thinking green if they want to build homes in Oxford. [News Source]

Green housing earmarked for docklands. The capital's first zero carbon development will be built in Docklands. [News Source]

Global Warming Forum (KARK Little Rock) On Wednesday, experts in earth sciences held a global warming forum to inform the public about the effects of a severe climate change. "In the last 10 years, we`ve had seven of the hottest years ever recorded," Rob Fisher, E.C.O. Director says. [News Source]