Global Warming Charging Up Hurricanes (KXAN 36 Austin) Talk about a heated question. Is global warming leading to more destructive hurricanes? A leading researcher from MIT says yes. KXAN NBC Austin Meteorologist Laura Skirde caught up with him Thursday in Austin to get the full story. [News Source]

Climate change may hurt Asian economies (AP via Yahoo! News) Hotter temperatures and higher sea levels could devastate Asian economies, displace millions of people and put millions more at risk from infectious disease, according to a climate change report released Monday. [News Source]

Asia-Pacific faces global warming disaster: scientists (AFP via Yahoo! News) Millions of people in the Asia-Pacific region could be forced from their homes and suffer increasing disease, cyclones and floods caused by global warming, scientists have warned. [News Source]

Climate change may hurt Asian economies (AP via Yahoo! News) Hotter temperatures and higher sea levels could devastate Asian economies, displace millions of people and put millions more at risk from infectious disease, according to a climate change report released Monday. [News Source]

Conservative ’strategy of delay’ on climate change, critics say. The Conservative government's plan to introduce a Clean Air Act is a strategy of delaying its climate change and air quality plan until beyond the next election, environment critics say. [News Source]

Buildings major source of greenhouse gases, expert says. The biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption in this nation and around the world is the buildings in which we live and work an internationally recognized architect and authority on preventing global warming said here this weekend. [News Source]

Removing CO2 from power plant emissions. Coal-burning power plants are under pressure to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide. One type of carbon removal technology is about to get a multi-million dollar test. [News Source]

The legal fight over car emissions.

If people in Vermont really want to rein in their state’s contribution to climate change, they will have to make some changes of their own.

Rising seas could leave millions homeless in Asia. Millions of people could become homeless in the Asia-Pacific region by 2070 due to rising sea levels from global warming, with Bangladesh, India, Vietnam, China and Pacific islands most at risk. [News Source]

Living on the edge. Britain's coastline has remained more or less intact since the end of the last ice age. But as sea levels rise, erosion is accelerating and more than a million homes are now under threat. Is the only solution for us to abandon the shore? [News Source]

Critics light coal fire under PacifiCorp. PacifiCorp is considering building three conventional coal-fired power plants by 2014, an approach that has angered Oregon consumer groups and public officials critical of the pollutants the facilities would emit. [News Source]