Earlier pollen seasons extend misery. Children’s Mercy Hospital study findings fit a growing body of research from around the world that links global warming to earlier, longer and more miserable allergy seasons - and possibly rising rates of asthma. [News Source]

EU carbon trade pact put at risk. More than 50 European economists and the Worldwide Fund for Nature have warned that European Union governments risk undermining the bloc's innovative emissions trading scheme by handing out too many permits to pollute. [News Source]

Climate change costs health too (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Deadly heatwaves and hurricanes and expanding malaria and Dengue fever infections appear to be some of the health consequences of global warming, an expert on health and environmental change said on Friday. [News Source]

INTERVIEW - Climate change affects health too - scientist (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News) BEIJING (Reuters) - Deadly heatwaves, hurricanes and spreading malaria infections appear to be just the obvious toll of global warming on people's health, said a scientist leading efforts to unravel how environmental change threatens lives. [News Source]

Democrat victory encourages US greens on climate change (AFP via Yahoo! News) The Democratic victory in US elections this week has given a boost to environmentalists long frustrated by the Republican administration's rejection of climate change worries and the need for energy conservation, analysts said. [News Source]

Climate change melting fabled African glaciers.

Climate change is melting a legendary ice field in equatorial Africa and may soon thaw it out completely, threatening fresh water supplies to hundreds of thousands of people, a climate expert said on Thursday.

EU climate credibility at stake, warn economists. A group of 50 economists have joined calls for the Commission to lower the limits on carbon dioxide emissions by member states under the second phase of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. [News Source]

Expert says oceans are turning acidic. Oceans have already absorbed a third of the world's emissions of carbon dioxide, one of the heat-trapping gases blamed for global warming, leading to acidification that prevents vital sea life from forming properly. [News Source]

Making growth greener a tall task for economists. Economists and ecologists have always made awkward bedfellows, but alarming new evidence of accelerating environmental decay has some experts scrambling to put a greener touch on growth. [News Source]

Global climate efforts ‘woeful’. Efforts to help developing nations adapt to the impacts of climate change have been called "woefully inadequate" by a UN-commissioned report. [News Source]

Estimates vary on when Northwest Passage will be open all summer. Satellite imagery has shown that the Arctic ice cap is thinning and already is nearly 30 percent smaller than it was 25 years ago. [News Source]