Climate change could kill Australia’s Great Barrier Reef: report (AFP via Yahoo! News) Australia's famed Great Barrier Reef, treasured as the world's largest living organism, could be killed within decades by global warming, scientists warn in a new report. [News Source]

Sanford Says S.C. Must Fight Global Warming (RedNova) By Sammy Fretwell, The State, Columbia, S.C. Jan. 29--Gov. Mark Sanford says global warming is a fact and he's organizing a commission to determine how South Carolina can best fight the problem. "Climate change is real," Sanford said in an interview with The State last week. [News Source]

Washington Wakes Up To Global Warming (CBS News) Maybe it's the weird winter weather, or the newly Democratic Congress. Maybe it's the news reports about starving polar bears, or the Oscar nomination for Al Gore's global warming cri de coeur, "An Inconvenient Truth." Whatever the reason, years of resistance to the reality of climate change are suddenly melting away like the soon-to-be-history snows of Kilimanjaro. [News Source]

Science Corner: Global-warming report due (Eagle-Tribune Online) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will release its latest report on global warming Friday. In a draft released early, the panel argues that human activities are to blame. [News Source]

Grim Global Warming Report Expected (Time Magazine) Scientists from around the world gathered Monday in Paris to finalize a long-awaited, authoritative report on climate change, expected to give a grim warning of rising temperatures and sea levels worldwide [News Source]

World scientists meet on global warming (AP via Yahoo! News) Scientists from around the world gathered Monday in Paris to finalize a long-awaited, authoritative report on climate change, expected to give a grim warning of rising temperatures and sea levels worldwide. [News Source]

Conference Focuses on Speed of Climate Change (NPR) Scientists gather in Paris to update a U.N.-sponsored study on global warming. One big revision is how human activity is not just causing climate change, but that it appears to be happening so rapidly. [News Source]

Climate change: All eyes on scientists as knowledge summit opens (AFP via Yahoo! News) With a mountain of data in front of them and demands for action coming from behind, the world's top climate experts have launched a massive review here of the evidence for global warming. [News Source]

World scientists meet to finalize global warming report (International Herald Tribune) Scientists from around the world gathered in Paris on Monday to finalize an authoritative report on climate change, expected to be a grim warning of rising temperatures and sea levels worldwide. [News Source]

Speed of climate change a “major risk”: expert (AFP via Yahoo! News) There is no longer any doubt about the reality of global warming and the speed at which it is developing is a "major risk", a senior expert says. [News Source]

Global warming: Top scientists meet in Paris (AFP via Yahoo! News) The world's top climate experts are geared for a four-day meeting in Paris where they are set to launch a long-awaited update about the scientific evidence for global warming. [News Source]