Domestic critics assail Ambrose abroad. Environment Minister Rona Ambrose came under fire on the world stage yesterday, but the attacks in Kenya were decidedly homegrown. [News Source]

Global warming threatens ‘large-scale’ bird extinctions: report (AFP via Yahoo! News) Nearly three quarters of all bird species in northeast Australia and more than a third in Europe could become extinct unless efforts to stop global warming are stepped up, a report said. [News Source]

Global warming could wipe out most birds: WWF (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Unchecked climate change could drive up to 72 per cent of the world's bird species into extinction but the world still has a chance to limit the losses, conservation group WWF said in a report on Tuesday. [News Source]

Canada labelled ‘fossil’ at climate change talks. Canada took its lumps at the UN climate conference in Kenya Monday, tying with Australia in a "fossil of the day" award while being ranked near the bottom of an environmental group's list for efforts to combat global warming. [News Source]

China’s temperature to raise 1.7 degrees Celsius by 2030. The average temperature in China will rise by 1.7 degrees Celsius by 2030 and 2.2 degrees by 2050, according to an environment advisory body. [News Source]

Tibet’s disappearing glaciers threaten China, UN says. Tibet's glaciers may disappear within 100 years due to global warming, threatening China's overused and polluted water supplies, the United Nations said. [News Source]

Cownie joins Redford to fight global warming. Actor and environmentalist Robert Redford has gathered 39 U.S. mayors, including Frank Cownie of Des Moines, at his Sundance Resort in Utah for a summit on global warming. [News Source]

No magic bullet for carbon pollution, says IEA chief. The world's economies have no alternative to boosting energy efficiency and lowering carbon emissions to tackle global warming, as clean energy lies decades away as a mainstream source. [News Source]

Shell president concedes global warming debate. Global warming doesn’t seem like an inconvenient truth to John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil Co., the giant U.S. subsidiary of Netherlands-based Royal Dutch/Shell Group. [News Source]

Warming ‘could destroy Australian species’. Nearly three-quarters of all bird species in north-east Australia and more than a third in Europe could become extinct unless efforts to stop global warming are stepped up, a report said today. [News Source]

Global warming could lead to extinction spike. Scientists studying the effects of Cyclone Larry have warned that biodiversity levels in tropical north Queensland could drop significantly if governments fail to address global warming. [News Source]