Global Warming and Climate Change News

Coral Reefs And Climate Change: Microbes Could Be The Key To Coral Death (Science Daily)
Friday April 04th 2008, 5:13 pm

Coral reefs could be dying out because of changes to the microbes that live in them just as much as from the direct rise in temperature caused by global warming, according to scientists. Tropical ecosystems are currently balanced on a climate change knife edge. [News Source]

Bangkok climate change talks close (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Friday April 04th 2008, 3:43 pm

The first formal talks to draw up a replacement to the Kyoto climate change pact wound up in Thailand on Friday with plans for another seven rounds of negotiations in the next 18 months to tackle global warming. [News Source]

Policies in line to handle climate change (North Lake Tahoe Bonanza)
Friday April 04th 2008, 9:05 am

Policies to reduce the amount of fine sediments and nutrients entering Lake Tahoe are on the right track to handle climate change, according to a Tahoe Environmental Research Center scientist who recently released a new study on global warming and... [News Source]

The costs of climate change (Miami Herald)
Friday April 04th 2008, 3:03 am

BANGKOK, With global markets in turmoil and the United States threatened by recession, negotiators at a climate change conference are asking: can nations afford to make rapid cuts in emissions to fight global warming without going into an economic tailspin? [News Source]

Reduce Global Warming With Your Cell Phone (PollutionOnline)
Friday April 04th 2008, 2:44 am

The Wireless Source issued a challenge recently for individuals and organizations to attain a "carbon neutral" status by the end of 2008. Simultaneously they introduced a program supported by Carbonfund.org to lead the fight against global warming climate change, making it easy and affordable for any individual, business or organization to eliminate their climate impact by recycling used mobile ... [News Source]