Bay area group announces grant at global warming summit. A Bay Area ecological group announced a $3 million grant today in San Francisco to fund local climate protection projects and programs. [News Source]

Warm winters ‘ruin’ currant crop.

A Herefordshire farmer is warning of a shortage of blackcurrant squash and jam claiming global warming has affected his crop.

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]

A global clean-water shortage. While people in wealthy African suburbs use water to fill swimming pools, many slum dwellers struggle to obtain it, and pay much more per gallon for the little they get, says a UN report calling to end "water apartheid." [News Source]

Scientists say millions could flee rising seas. Nations must make plans to help tens of millions of "sea level refugees" if climate change continues to ravage the world's oceans, German researchers said on Thursday. [News Source]

Boxer pledges shift on global warming policy with new Senate role. Sen. Barbara Boxer on Thursday promised major policy shifts on global warming, air quality and toxic-waste cleanup as she prepares to head the U.S. Senate's environmental committee. [News Source]

Power crunch could lead to lots more lines. To meet the nation's fast-growing demand for electricity, utilities are planning to string thousands of miles of high-voltage power lines across the USA in a building frenzy that could mar some of the country's most precious open spaces. [News Source]

Global warming may be homing in on Atlantic hurricanes. The idea that increased hurricane activity might be connected to global warming first blew in with Katrina. Now, new analyses have something to offer both skeptics and proponents. [News Source]

Colorado town approves first U.S. carbon tax. Voters in a Colorado university town nestled in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains have passed the country's first municipal carbon tax to fight global warming. [News Source]