Global warming could bring longer, more expensive wildfire seasons.

Global warming could stoke ferocious wildfires that will be more difficult and costly to fight and might drastically alter the environment in parts of the world.

Australia gets heated over French global warming threat. Australia hit back at France Wednesday over its threat to impose a tax on industrial goods from countries that ignore the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. [News Source]

City joins effort to combat global warming (WCAX 3) PORTSMOUTH, N.H. Portsmouth (New Hampshire) is joining a national effort to combat global warming and climate change. [News Source]

Progress In Talks At UN Climate Change Conference (Scoop.co.nz) Progress has been made on a number of issues at a United Nations conference in Nairobi aimed at forging responses to global warming, including efforts to promote projects in developing countries that will help people adapt to threats posed by the phenomenon, the head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) said today. [News Source]

US greenhouse gas emissions up 0.6 percent in 2005. US greenhouse gas emissions rose 0.6 percent in 2005, the US Department of Energy reported Tuesday. [News Source]

US 2005 greenhouse gas emissions rise 0.6 percent - govt. The amount of US greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming that were released into the air increased 0.6 percent last year, but fell in intensity when based on economic output, the government said. [News Source]

Europe seeks new controls on emissions from airliners. In a move to raise the stakes in global environmental policy, the European Commission said on Tuesday that it would seek to impose emissions controls on all flights in and out of Europe. [News Source]

Airlines hit back at EU emissions plan. The airline industry on Wednesday criticised plans to include it in Europe’s greenhouse gas trading scheme as early as 2011, accusing Brussels of acting unilaterally. [News Source]

Howard in carbon trading shift. Australian Prime Minister John Howard says he is to propose a new strategy to tackle global warming at the Asia Pacific Economic Council forum. [News Source]

Annan chides inaction on climate. UN chief Kofi Annan has criticised a "frightening lack of leadership" in tackling global warming, at a major UN climate summit in Nairobi. [News Source]

Australia to back carbon trading system. Prime Minister John Howard said Tuesday that he would back the start of an international carbon trading plan to fight global warming when he meets leaders at the APEC summit meeting in Vietnam this weekend. [News Source]