Thailand: World Governments Start Talks On Climate Change Agreement (Sin Chew Jit Poh) BANGKOK, THAILAND: Governments from nearly 200 countries will launch discussions Monday (31 Mar) on forging a global warming agreement, a process that is expected to be fraught with disagreements over how much to reduce greenhouse gases and which nations should adhere to binding targets. [News Source]

World governments start talks on climate change agreement (AP via Yahoo! Malaysia News) Governments from nearly 200 countries will launch discussions Monday on forging a global warming agreement, a process that is expected to be fraught with disagreements over how much to reduce greenhouse gases and which nations should adhere to binding targets. [News Source]

Levin to testify before Senate on global warming next week (Yale Daily News) Days after announcing that Yale will host a national conference on climate change in April, University President Richard Levin has confirmed that he will testify next week in front of the U.S. Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee as Congress prepares to take up debate on a bill that would cap greenhouse gas emissions. Levin, who has made sustainability one of the pillars of his ... [News Source]

Cities worldwide switch off their lights to raise awareness about global warming (AP via Yahoo! Singapore News) The iconic Opera House and Harbour Bridge went dark Saturday night as Sydney became the world's first major city to turn off its lights for this year's Earth Hour, a global campaign to raise awareness about climate change. [News Source]

Cities worldwide switch off their lights to raise awareness about global warming (AP via Yahoo! Malaysia News) The iconic Opera House and Harbour Bridge went dark Saturday night as Sydney became the world's first major city to turn off its lights for this year's Earth Hour, a global campaign to raise awareness about climate change. [News Source]

Sciam Observations Blog: Will the U.S. solve the climate change problem? (Scientific American) Either the ingenuity unleashed by the United States own special mix of free markets and government regulation will solve the climate change crisis or the rest of the world, having witnessed an American government content to stick its head in the sand, will forcibly compel the country into a green future. [News Source]

Earth Hour blackout highlights global warming (AFP via Yahoo! News) Australia's largest city was shrouded in darkness on Saturday night as it launched a worldwide campaign stretching from Sydney to San Francisco to highlight global warming. [News Source]

Climate change threatens human rights: UN (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) The United Nations has officially declared that climate change is a threat to the human rights of people living in small island states. [News Source]

World cities start going dark as part of efforts to fight climate change (AP via Yahoo! Malaysia News) Lights dimmed and flickered out in New Zealand and Fiji on Saturday as the two countries became the first to launch Earth Hour, a global campaign to raise awareness about climate change. [News Source]

Holt: India ill-equipped to fight climate change (Courier-Post) Energy-hungry India wants to clean up its air but has a long way to go before it can do its part to combat global warming. [News Source]

‘Time to highlight the human face of climate change’ (Mail and Guardian) Climate change is now officially a human rights issue, as the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday passed a resolution on the subject, recognising that the world's poor are particularly vulnerable. [News Source]