Japan G8 Summit Should Tackle Food, Climate Change, Fukuda Says (Bloomberg.com) May 30 (Bloomberg) -- Japan's Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said this year's Group of Eight summit in Hokkaido should focus on how to ease food inflation and curb global warming. [News Source]

Under Pressure, White House Issues Climate Change Report (New York Times) The Bush administration, bowing to a court order, has released a fresh summary of research pointing to harmful impacts in the United States from human-caused global warming. [News Source]

U.S. issues climate report 4 years late

Under a court order and four years late, the White House Thursday produced what it called a science-based "one-stop shop" of specific threats to the United States from man-made global warming.

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Report: City folk produce less carbon While cities are hot spots for global warming, people living in them turn out to be greener than their country cousins, researchers at the Brookings Institution say in a report released Thursday. [News Source]

Rockefellers lose bid to change Exxon

Exxon Mobil Corp. chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson will retain both of those jobs after a highly public, Rockefeller-led push to separate the roles that failed again Wednesday.

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‘Eye-opening’ U.S. climate impacts report Climate change is increasing the risk of U.S. crop failures, depleting water resources and contributing to outbreaks of invasive species and insects, according to a new federal report. [News Source]

Markey Unveils Sweeping Climate Change Legislation (CBS News) Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) unveiled sweeping climate change legislation on Wednesday, laying down an ambitious marker in the ongoing congressional debate over how to address global warming. The chairman of the newly created House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, Markey was hand-picked by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to lead the charge on one of Pelosi’s ... [News Source]

Climate Change Already Affecting U.S. Water, Land, And Biodiversity, Report Finds (Science Daily) A new report finds that climate change is already affecting U.S. water resources, agriculture, land resources, and biodiversity, and will continue to do so. A list of 12 major results of global warming on the U.S. includes the invasion by exotic grass species into arid lands will result from climate change, causing an increased fire frequency. The growing season has increased by 10 to 14 days ... [News Source]

USDA says climate change affecting crops, livestock (USA Today) Climate change is increasing the risk of U.S. crop failures, depleting the nation's water resources and contributing to outbreaks of invasive species and insects, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a report released Tuesday. [News Source]

Exxon to cut funding to climate change denial groups (Guardian Unlimited) The oil giant has admitted that its support for lobby groups that question the science of climate change may have hindered action to tackle global warming [News Source]

Climate change in Greece will fuel forest fires: Nobel scientist (EARTHtimes.org) Athens - Global warming will curb rainfall and fuel forest fires throughout Greece, Christos Zerefos, one of two Greek scientists awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to combat climate change said Wednesday. From 2031 until 2060, Greece w... [News Source]