Environment, global warming to take ASEAN spotlight - Feature (EARTHtimes.org) Manila - Amid the increasing threat of global warming, the environment and the impact of climate change will take the spotlight in November at the leaders' summit of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Singapore. Leaders are expect... [News Source]

Climate Change Threatens Siberian Forests (Science Daily) Catastrophic forest fire outbreaks in Siberia are happening more frequently because of climate change, new research suggests. In Central Siberia alone, fires have destroyed 38 000 square kilometers in the extreme fire year of 2003. In that year the smoke plumes were so huge that they caused air pollution as far as in the United States. An international team of scientists believes that Siberian ... [News Source]

Decisive Global Action Needed On Climate Change (Scoop.co.nz) Top United Nations officials joined leading experts today in urging decisive action on a global scale to combat the challenges posed by climate change. [News Source]

Climate change threatens Siberian forests (EurekAlert!) In Central Siberia alone, fires have destroyed 38 000 km2 in the extreme fire year of 2003. In that year the smoke plumes were so huge that they caused air pollution as far as in the United States. An international team of scientists believes that Siberian fires are influenced by climate change. [News Source]

Global warming debate is stormy (Miami Herald) Hurricanes are forming twice as often as they did a century ago, largely because of global warming caused by humans, according to a new scientific study. [News Source]

Global warming debate is stormy (Miami Herald) Hurricanes are forming twice as often as they did a century ago, largely because of global warming caused by humans, according to a new scientific study. [News Source]

UN chief urges new climate change deal by 2009 (AFP via Yahoo! News) UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday appealed to all countries to do their utmost to seal a new climate change deal by 2009 and have it in force by the time the Kyoto protocol expires in 2012. [News Source]

UN General Assembly to hold informal debate on climate change (AFP via Yahoo! News) The UN General Assembly is to kick off a two-day debate on climate change Tuesday to lay the groundwork for upcoming high-level international meetings on how to tackle the burning issue. [News Source]

Saving Bangladesh from Global Warming (Technology Review) Researchers seek fine-scale impact maps for a nation endangered by climate change. [News Source]

Brazil, Alarmed, Reconsiders Policy on Climate Change (New York Times) Brazilian policy makers have begun showing signs of new flexibility in the tangled, politically volatile international negotiations to limit human-caused global warming. [News Source]

Climate change to top agenda in meeting of EAS ministers (Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News) _ Climate change and energy issues are expected to top the agenda of a meeting of foreign ministers from 16 Asia-Pacific nations in Manila on Tuesday as the international community gears up for a series of key international conferences aimed at curbing global warming, Japanese officials said. [News Source]