Snows of Kilimanjaro shrink - God or global warming? At the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, an elderly Maasai village chief squints up at the summit and says only God can explain the shrinking snowcap and worsening droughts. [News Source]

Country needs to be on war footing against global warming: Labour leader (AFP via Yahoo! News) The government needs to rally its people to fight a "war" against global warming much the way it mobilized for World War II, a leading member of the Labour Party has said. [News Source]

Climate change ‘genocide’ threatens Kenyan herders: aid groups (AFP via Yahoo! News) Just a short plane ride from a key UN climate change conference in the Kenyan capital, entire communities are threatened by the global warming equivalent of genocide, aid groups say. [News Source]

Climate change ‘genocide’ threatens Kenyan herders: Aid groups. Just a short plane ride from a key UN climate change conference in the Kenyan capital, entire communities are threatened by the global warming equivalent of genocide, aid groups say. [News Source]

Snows of Kilimanjaro shrink - God or global warming? The United Nations, hosting Nov. 6-17 climate talks in Nairobi 240 km (150 miles) north, reckons blame for the vanishing snows of Kilimanjaro lies with global warming linked to human use of fossil fuels. [News Source]

Poles apart, and melting. Earlier this year a study of Antarctica's ice sheet found it had lost about 152 cubic kilometres of ice a year since April 2002. Now NASA scientists who have mapped Greenland's total ice volume say it too is on a "downward slide." [News Source]

Coal’s pitfalls and promises. Because of fears about human-caused global warming, coal has become an international villain, and some say it's only a matter of time before the coal-fired power plants of the South and Midwest feel political heat -- and consumers here get an economic wallop. [News Source]

Scotland’s global warming roll of shame. More than 25 million tonnes of climate-wrecking pollution is being spewed into the atmosphere every year by 80 industrial plants across Scotland, the Sunday Herald can reveal. [News Source]

African nomads to be first people wiped out by climate change. As government ministers sit down in Nairobi, the people most likely to be wiped out by devastating global warming will be only a few hundred miles away from their deliberations. [News Source]

Green groups relish victories. Environmentalists rejoiced this week at the news that Democrats will take control of Congress, providing leadership they expect will mean more wilderness protection, tougher pollution laws and new global warming rules. [News Source]

Local research team pinpoints local impact of climate change (Santa Cruz Sentinel) Springtime in Santa Cruz could feel more like June in San Jose within the century if global warming continues unchecked, according to the most detailed look yet at the possible effects of climate change along the Central Coast. [News Source]