California Sees ‘Greenrush’ in Global Warming Move (Planet Ark) LOS ANGELES, Aug 31 - In a land where fortunes were spun from gold, films and silicon chips, California's leaders envisage a "greenrush" with their groundbreaking law to fight global warming. [News Source]

Climate Panel Lowers Global Warming Forecast - Report (Planet Ark) SYDNEY - The world's top climate scientists are slightly less pessimistic in their latest forecasts for global warming over the next 100 years, the Australian newspaper reported on Saturday. [News Source]

Big environmental case on Supreme Court docket . This fall, the US Supreme Court considers its most important environmental case in recent history, on whether the EPA should regulate greenhouse gases. [News Source]

Tree-planting drive seeks to bring a new urban cool. Sacramento believes an answer for global warming is growing on trees. [News Source]

Greenhouse gas plan may waft across U.S. If history is any guide, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's pioneering plan to cap industrial greenhouse gases promises to enlist other states and, perhaps, the entire country in the fight to slow global warming. [News Source]

Aspen debates action on warming. In a community like Aspen where Hummers, 15,000-square-foot second homes and private jets are the ubiquitous signs of conspicuous consumption, conservation is an ideal that works easier in theory than in practice. [News Source]

Experts at International Congress on Obesity warn of deadly global pandemic. An obesity pandemic threatens to overwhelm health systems around the globe with illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease, experts at an international conference warned Sunday. [News Source]

Health experts: obesity pandemic looms. An obesity pandemic threatens to overwhelm health systems around the globe with illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease, experts at an international conference warned Sunday. [News Source]

Killer bug on move with global warming. A flesh-eating bacterium that can kill is spreading northward in salty European waters in response to climate change. [News Source]

Deadly bug may invade UK waters. Experts fear a deadly marine bug, Vibrio vulnificus, could arrive on Britain's shores as sea temperatures rise. [News Source]

Monsoon UK. New research suggests the kind of extreme downpour usually associated with India and the tropics will become a familiar part of autumn in Britain as a result of global warming and climate change. [News Source]