Antarctica-bound UN chief urges action on global warming (AFP via Yahoo! News) UN chief Ban Ki-moon urged swift action on global warming on the eve of a visit Friday to the Antarctic to see the effects of climate change first-hand. [News Source]

Calif. sues EPA to get CO2 rules on cars

California sued the federal government Thursday to force a decision about whether the state can impose the nation's first greenhouse gas emission standards for cars and light trucks.

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Third of Africa coastline at risk from climate change: UN (AFP via Yahoo! News) Around a third of Africa's existing coastline could be swallowed up by rising water levels brought on by global warming, the United Nations' top environment official said on Thursday. [News Source]

Protest over ocean warming experiment Environmental groups assailed an Australian company's experimental dumping of urea in Philippine waters to try to fight global warming, saying Thursday the practice endangers marine life. [News Source]

Verheugen expects US to follow the EU’s lead on climate change (European Voice) Günter Verheugen, the European enterprise and industry commissioner, has expressed his hopes that the US will strengthen its policy on combating global warming, thus ensuring that European industry is not penalised by the EU’s ambitious action on climate change. [News Source]