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]

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]

Drought bailout may top $2bn. The Federal Government may spend an extra $750 million on the drought, with Deputy Prime Minister Mark Vaile comparing the bailout to tsunami aid as cabinet prepares to consider a huge rural relief package. [News Source]

Clean-air law is vulnerable, critics warn. In Canada, the Harper government's new Clean Air Act will be vulnerable to constitutional challenges by the private sector and could therefore be ineffectual for years, environmental groups said yesterday. [News Source]

An accidental Canadian finds her environmental footing. After founding the Sierra Club of Canada and running it for almost 17 years, Ms. May has emerged as the leader of the Green Party of Canada. [News Source]

Canadians agree on plan to create vast national park. The move will put some limits on the surge of mining claims being staked in northwestern Canada. [News Source]

War as an environmental issue. In the Connecticut Senate the war in Iraq and the environmental issues Americans face at home may be more closely tied in the eyes of voters than expected. [News Source]

Air quality location chosen. Smith College is hoping to open an air monitoring facility in Whately with an 80- to 90-foot tower that would be part of a chain of atmospheric research centers located from the summit of Mount Washington to the ocean at Isles of Shoals, off the coast of New Hampshire. [News Source]

Methodists’ services to go ‘green.’ For the first time ever, this year's Laity Sunday will be dedicated to environmental issues. [News Source]

Methodists’ services to go ‘green’. More and more Christian churches are moving questions of protecting the environment from the political to the religious sphere. Several Episcopal churches in Utah have already aired the Al Gore documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth." [News Source]

Is global warming causing bigger hurricanes? The hurricane-warming link isn't settled at all. Rather, it's a very contentious debate between two groups of scientists—computer-modeling atmospheric scientists versus meteorologists—who have very different methods, ideas, and priorities. [News Source]