Global climate change: the stakes are high (Bangkok Post) Over the last several years the issue of global climate change, or perhaps better known as global warming, has appeared with ever greater intensity through multiple communications channels. [News Source]

Local universities seek to put focus on global warming (The Pantagraph) BLOOMINGTON — Both Twin City universities are joining more than 1,600 U.S. campuses this week in a coordinated effort to put global warming on the front burner of 2008 elections. [News Source]

Dickinson College to participate in national symposium on global warming (The Sentinel) Dickinson College will host a series of environmental events as part of a nationwide symposium designed to raise awareness about sustainability and climate change. [News Source]

Global Warming Awareness Day discussion set (Ada Evening News) ADA — The Environmental Health Science Club at East Central University will kick off ECU’s new College of Health and Sciences Student Leadership Series Thursday with “ECU Global Warming Awareness Day.” [News Source]

Iowa legislators debate global warming (The Courier) DES MOINES --- A dispute in the Iowa House over whether climate change is caused by humans has fueled a debate over whether the state should act to ease global warming. [News Source]

Climate change requires political will, activist says (The Burlington Free Press) McKibben kicks off week of collegiate focus on global warming issues. [News Source]

Local universities seek to put focus on global warming (The Pantagraph) BLOOMINGTON — Both Twin City universities are joining more than 1,600 U.S. campuses this week in a coordinated effort to put global warming on the front burner of 2008 elections. [News Source]

Climate change will be focus on campus (University Daily Kansan) Wednesday and Thursday about 50 professors from all departments will incorporate the issue of global warming into their lectures. The effort called National Teach-In, is sponsored by the national organization Focus the Nation. [News Source]

Sen. Whitehouse calls for stronger leadership to combat climate change (The Providence Journal) PROVIDENCE — U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse spoke to a packed auditorium at Brown University yesterday about global warming challenges that lie ahead and urged voters to elect a president that will lead the nation, and complement the Democratic majority in Congress, in pushing more progressive legislation to slow the effects of climate change. [News Source]

Sen. Whitehouse calls for stronger leadership to combat climate change (The Providence Journal) U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse spoke to a packed auditorium at Brown University yesterday about global warming challenges that lie ahead and urged voters to elect a president that will lead the nation, and complement the Democratic majority in Congress, in pushing more progressive legislation to slow the effects of climate change. [News Source]

Scientists Link Natural Gas Formation by Bacteria to Climate Change and Renewable Energy (PhysOrg) Natural gas reservoirs in Michigan`s Antrim Shale are providing new information about global warming and the Earth`s climate history, according to a recent study by Steven Petsch, a geoscientist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The study is also good news for energy companies hoping to make natural gas a renewable resource. Results were published in the February 2008 issue of Geology. [News Source]