L. America, Caribbean Have Key Climate Change Role (Scoop.co.nz) The top United Nations climate change official today highlighted the crucial role that Latin America and the Caribbean countries - which scientists believe will bear the brunt of the effects of global warming over the coming decades - will play in addressing the problem. [News Source]

Global Warming Becoming Hot Topic In Law (CBS4 Denver) Global warming is a hot topic in science, government and now in law. Some states are now trying to sue industry over the effects of climate change. [News Source]

Climate change threatens West’s water, world’s crops (USA Today) The potential that global warming has to dry up water resources in the American West and the food supplies of 1 billion people in the poorest regions of Africa and Asia is the focus of two studies released today. [News Source]

Is Climate Change Making Us Sick? (Environmental News Network) Ask the people of Yorkshire. As a result of global warming, many homeowners this week are up to their waists in muddy water. And flooding could be just the beginning of our worries. This week a paper in the British Medical Journal gave warning that climate change could be particularly damaging to the health of people in the developing world, but research also suggests that it could be bad news ... [News Source]

Examining climate change (Contra Costa Times) PALO ALTO -- Stanford University sophomore Sabine Bergmann wants to focus her education on issues involving global warming. "I really want to spend my life and career on climate change," the 19-year-old said. [News Source]

Experts: World fells trees at ‘alarming’ rate

EDITOR'S NOTE _ A generation back, conservationists warned of a "well-hidden time bomb" in the destruction of rain forests. Today even more trees fall. This is the first in a three-part global series on deforestation, its threat to climate, and what may be done about it.

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