Australia’s drought could be worst in 1,000 years. The drought gripping Australia could be the worst in 1,000 years, government officials say, as Australia started to draw up emergency plans to secure long-term water supplies to towns and cities. [News Source]

Imperial Oil accused of not having plan to manage greenhouse gases.

An extra cent spent on each barrel of bitumen produced could make Imperial Oil’s Kearl project carbon-neutral.

Global warming strategies debated (Japan Today) NAIROBI — Delegates to a key U.N. climate change conference on Tuesday debated how to cope with global warming amid increasingly dire warnings of its effects on human life, the environment and world treasures. [News Source]

Global warming threatens poverty reduction - Kenya (SABC News) Kenya urged a 189-nation climate change conference today to do more to tackle global warming, which is threatening to undo recent successes in the fight against poverty. [News Source]

Kenya: Rivers could dry in 15 years. Rivers flowing from Mt Kenya and other water towers in East Africa will run dry in the next 15 years if the current trends in climate change are not reversed. [News Source]

England needs major flood defence work - insurers.

England must spend up to 9 billion pounds (US$17 billion) bolstering flood defences against a predicted 40 centimetre rise in sea levels due to global warming, insurers said.

UN meet debates global warming strategies amid gloomy warnings (AFP via Yahoo! News) Delegates to a key UN climate change conference here debated how to cope with global warming amid increasingly dire warnings of its effects on human life, the environment and world treasures. [News Source]

Climate change to hurt poor people most. The effects of global warming threaten to reverse recent gains in the fight against extreme poverty in developing countries, Kenya's environment minister warned on Monday. [News Source]

Report underlines Africa`s vulnerability to climate change. The vulnerability of the African continent to climate change is much greater than had earlier been expected, according to a new report on the impact of climate change in Africa. [News Source]

Journalist exposes manipulations of science. A journalist reporting for Environmental Science and Technology, published by the American Chemical Society, is fired after an industry-based ACS board member objects to his investigative reports on industry manipulations of science. [News Source]

China to pass U.S. in 2009 in emissions. China will surpass the United States in 2009, nearly a decade ahead of previous predictions, as the biggest emitter of the main gas linked to global warming. [News Source]