Global Warming Concern Unites Groups (San Diego Business Journal) Four San Diego institutions have announced a partnership to increase awareness of global warming and the impacts it could have on the local climate. [News Source]

Seeds that fight climate change in Navdanya banks (Yahoo! India News) Looking for alternatives to Genetically Modified seeds, noted environmentalist Vandana Shiva's organic farming initiative Navdanya has brought out seeds that are resistant to extreme climatic changes. Under 'Climate Change', a project launched in August this year, three seed banks have been opened in Jaisalmer (drought resistant crops), Kerala (saline resistant crops), and Bihar (flood resistant [News Source]

Environmentalists demand Ontario pollution review. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty's retreat from a campaign pledge to close the province's coal-burning electricity-generating plants came back to haunt him yesterday when a group of environmental advocates demanded a review of his government's air pollution policies. [News Source]

Northern bogs may have helped kick-start past global warming (EurekAlert!) Methane gas released by peat bogs in the northern-most third of the globe probably helped fuel the last major round of global warming, which drew the ice age to a close between 11,000 and 12,000 years ago, UCLA and Russian Academy of Sciences scientists have concluded. [News Source]

Big bogs spurred ancient global warming, report says (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Massive peat bogs in Siberia and elsewhere may have helped spur global warming at the end of the last ice age some 12,000 years ago, scientists reported on Thursday. [News Source]

Big bogs spurred ancient global warming - report (AlertNet) Source: Reuters By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Massive peat bogs in Siberia and elsewhere may have helped spur global warming at the end of the last ice age some 12, ... [News Source]

For Pacific islanders, global warming is real. For Ben Namakin, who lives on an island in the mid-Pacific, global warming isn't some abstract threat his kids might someday face. It already has started to tear his country apart. [News Source]

Clash with gassy culprits inevitable. The Sundance is the most gaseous global warming spot in Canada, where just one plant belches 16.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent gas into the air every year [News Source]

Marin launches attack on global warming. County officials have pledged to reduce Marin's greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent by 2020 with an ambitious program of alternative energy projects. [News Source]

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]

Global Warming Concern Unites Groups (San Diego Business Journal) Four San Diego institutions have announced a partnership to increase awareness of global warming and the impacts it could have on the local climate. [News Source]