Climate Change vs Mother Nature: Scientists reveal that bears have stopped hibernating (Independent) Bears have stopped hibernating in the mountains of northern Spain, scientists revealed yesterday, in what may be one of the strongest signals yet of how much climate change is affecting the natural world. [News Source]

Climate change deal will fail without US, China and India: Blair (Hindustan Times) British Prime Minister Tony Blair called Wednesday for an international agreement on tackling climate change, but warned that any deal would fail unless it included the United States, China and India. [News Source]

Editorial: Still in a mess over climate change (New Scientist) The politically and commercially motivated abuse of science carried out by some climate change sceptics must be exposed for what it is [News Source]

Global warming panel to meet (Louisville Courier-Journal) A committee set up to help Louisville voluntarily achieve the environmental commitments of an international global warming treaty will meet for the first time today. [News Source]

Climate Change Has Surprising Effect On Endangered Naked Carp (Science Daily) A groundbreaking new study reveals an unanticipated way freshwater fish may respond to water diversion and climate change. Endangered naked carp migrate annually between freshwater rivers, where they spawn, and a lake in Western China, where they feed and grow. However, Lake Qinghai is drying up and becoming increasingly more saline -- leading to surprising adjustments to the carps' metabolic ... [News Source]

K-State Receives Major New Grant for Climate Change Effort (Kansas City InfoZine) The department of agronomy at Kansas State University has received a one-year grant of $1 million from the Robertson Foundation, New York, for outreach and research efforts into the role of agricultural soils in reducing global warming. [News Source]

Inevitable global warming a challenge for agriculture (Nyngan Observer) I CURRENTLY see no process or strategy that will stop global warming from becoming inevitable. The scientific evidence of both global warming and climate change has been stacking up for some time now. [News Source]

UN to intensify Africa climate change monitoring (SABC News) Global warming is likely to have a profound impact on Africa, but the continent lacks the means to detect and adapt to shifting patterns of drought, floods and disease, United Nations' environmental agencies said yesterday. [News Source]