Rally, hike fight climate change (Small Town Papers News Service) The world may be threatened with flood, drought, massive heat waves and other disasters brought on by global warming. But a climate change rally on Saturday in downtown Milford won’t be all doo... [News Source]

Climate change gives rise to weather hedge (FT.com via Yahoo! News) The first Global Warming index is to be launched this week by UBS (NYSE:UBS), allowing businesses most affected by the uncertainty of climate change - from ice-cream salesmen to makers of winter coats - to hedge their profits against it in a simple and transparent fashion. [News Source]

McCain warns of twin energy threats, global warming (ABC 15 Phoenix) Republican presidential contender John McCain on Monday warned about U.S. reliance on foreign oil and the threat of global warming, dismissing even some in his own party who suggest climate change is a Hollywood-driven notion. [News Source]

U.N. panel lists climate-change cures (AP via Yahoo! News) The draft report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's working group on mitigation, a report whose final version will be issued May 4 in Bangkok, lists dozens of available technologies that could significantly reduce global-warming gases. [News Source]

McCain Says Global Warming “Urgent” Challenge (WCSH 6 Portland) Republican presidential contender John McCain on Monday warned about U.S. reliance on foreign oil and the threat of global warming, dismissing even some in his own party who suggest climate change is a Hollywood-driven notion. [News Source]

The Christian Science Monitor Launches Global Warming Website (Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance) Ewire -- Responding to the growing public interest in global warming, The Christian Science Monitor has launched a new long-term initiative to focus greater coverage on the causes and effects of global warming and its impact on climate change. [News Source]

Give global warming the bum’s rush: Sheryl Crowe (AFP via Yahoo! News) Sheryl Crowe is suggesting a bottom-up solution to wipe away global warming: limit each trip to the bathroom to one piece of toilet paper, according to a statement on the US rocker's website. [News Source]

Global warming imperils Himalayan glaciers (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Global warming could wipe out large areas of glaciers in the Himalayas and surrounding highlands, threatening livelihoods across much of Asia, climate scientists said in Beijing on Monday. [News Source]

India, Japan sign pact on global warming (AFP via Yahoo! News) Japan signed a deal Monday to help fast-growing India fight global warming as the two countries look ahead to a framework after the landmark Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. [News Source]

Global Warming Remedies Seen Costing Less Than Climate Change (Bloomberg.com) April 23 (Bloomberg) -- A United Nations draft report says laws to curb global warming may reduce world production less than 5.5 percent by 2050, a cost that economists see as a bargain compared with the price of doing nothing. [News Source]

India, Japan sign pact on global warming (AFP via Yahoo! News) Japan signed a deal Monday to help fast-growing India fight global warming as the two countries look ahead to a framework after the landmark Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. [News Source]