£3.68 trillion: The price of failing to act on climate change (Guardian Unlimited) Britons face the prospect of a welter of new green taxes to tackle climate change, as the most authoritative report on global warming warns it will cost the world up to £3.68 trillion unless it is tackled within a decade. [News Source]

Italy to work for climate watershed. Italy will tell the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Nairobi that it plans to start leading the international fight against global warning with stiff action on the domestic front . [News Source]

Indigenous people see harm from Kyoto warming pact. Indigenous peoples from the Amazon to Asia said on Wednesday that U.N.-backed clean energy projects meant to combat global warming were aggravating threats to their livelihoods. [News Source]

China to pass US greenhouse gas levels by 2010. China's rapid industrialisation and rising wealth means that it will become a bigger emitter of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas blamed for global warming, than the United States by 2010, an authoritative report says. [News Source]

Severe weather’s here to stay, scientists say. Short sharp bursts of rain are increasing in both frequency and intensity and will lead to even more massive mudslides and floods of the kind seen across southern B.C. Monday, according to researchers at the University of B.C. [News Source]

Illinois mulls building greenhouse gas pipeline. The governor of Illinois is mulling whether the state should help build a pipeline to combat global warming by carrying greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from planned clean coal plants to aging oilfields. [News Source]

Global warming said threat to world heritage. Global warming is threatening archaeological sites from Peru to Egypt as well as natural wonders such as the Caribbean's largest coral reef, a UN report said on Tuesday. [News Source]

Experts say world’s ancient sites are threatened by global warming. Some of the world's most valuable historic ancient ruins have withstood centuries - but experts say these fragile landmarks might not survive a swiftly warming planet. [News Source]

Climate change threatens heritage sites. From archaeological ruins in Scotland to 13th century mosques in the Sahara, the effects of climate change could destroy some of the world's most important natural and cultural heritage sites, a report has revealed. [News Source]

Africa’s melting peaks cast shadows on UN climate meet. Why glaciers on Africa's highest peaks are melting, and how they can be saved, are questions casting shadows on a UN climate change summit underway in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. [News Source]

EU warns of severe consequences of unchecked global warming. Any further rise in the earth's surface temperature will have "dangerous and large-scale" impacts, the European Union warned Tuesday, urging the world to get serious about global warming. [News Source]