UN seek new leaders on global warming (AP via Yahoo! News) Virgin CEO Richard Branson offered Monday to set up an "environmental war room" to lead the world's efforts to find a fix for global warming. [News Source]

Ancient Global Warming Gave Bugs the Munchies (National Geographic) Current climate change might also cause insects to up their appetites, warns a new research study of a previous epoch's global warming. [News Source]

Warming could trigger insect food frenzy

Global warming could bring about a veritable insect explosion, if past performance is an indication of future gains, a new study found.

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Global warming brings out the bugs (Straits Times) CHICAGO - NEW research into an earlier chapter of global warming in Earth's history suggests the current period of climate change will accelerate crop damage and forest devastation, a study released on Monday said. [News Source]

UN chief calls for climate change action (AP via Yahoo! News) U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged all nations to join private companies, civic groups and individuals this year in sustaining "the unprecedented momentum" to fight global warming. [News Source]

U.N. chief calls for climate change action (USA Today) U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged all nations to join private companies, civic groups and individuals this year in sustaining "the unprecedented momentum" to fight global warming. [News Source]

UN chief calls for climate change action (The San Luis Obispo Tribune) U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged all nations to join private companies, civic groups and individuals this year in sustaining "the unprecedented momentum" to fight global warming. "If 2007 was the year when climate change rose to the top of the global agenda, 2008 is the time we must take concerted action," Ban said at the start of a two-day U.N. General Assembly debate to ... [News Source]

UN chief calls for climate change action (AP via Yahoo! News) U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged all nations to join private companies, civic groups and individuals this year in sustaining "the unprecedented momentum" to fight global warming. [News Source]

UN chief, NY mayor urge world action on climate change (AFP via Yahoo! News) New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined UN chief Ban Ki-moon here Monday in galvanizing world action to roll back climate change, which he described as one of the most important issues facing the planet. [News Source]

UN chief urges progress on a new climate change pact (AFP via Yahoo! News) UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday exhorted developed and developing countries as well as the private sector to speed up efforts to agree a new global pact to roll back climate change. [News Source]

U.N. chief, Bloomberg urge climate action

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged all countries to join forces with the private sector, civic groups and individuals to take action to address climate change this year.

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