Residents in danger of flooding from global warming should be forcibly relocated: gov’t report. Residents in areas that are in danger of flooding due to global warming should be relocated to safer places, the Ministry of the Environment said in a report released on Wednesday. [News Source]

Develop drought-, flood-resistant crops to face climate change. Global warming will lead to increasing frequency of drought, which sometimes has greater negative impacts on crops than other natural calamities do, speakers at a seminar said yesterday. [News Source]

WWF urges Portugal to expand cork forests . Portugal is the world's largest producer of cork used in wine bottles but the density of trees in cork forests has fallen in recent years, threatening increased desertification as the dry, hot climate of the south moves north. [News Source]

Mass extinctions due to sea level changes, study says. The rise and fall of the seas may have a more lethal toll on Earth's life than asteroids and supervolacanoes, according to a new study. [News Source]

Kulongoski calls on state to cut carbon emissions. Biodiesel, wind power, solar cells -- those hold out hope for an "energy-secure" future as well as thousands of jobs for Oregonians, Gov. Ted Kulongoski said Tuesday. [News Source]

Riding new wave of answers. As the push to reduce our collective carbon footprint gains momentum, it's no surprise our attention is increasingly turning to renewable alternatives as a panacea for our energy ills. [News Source]

Planning a sustainable future. State Rep. Brad Witt began a discussion on how to train workers for jobs in renewable energy and energy efficiency, to manage local forests to store carbon and to make existing jobs economically, environmentally and socially sustainable. [News Source]

£108m scheme to save rainforest to be policed by satellite. Britain and Norway created a £108m fund yesterday to help save the world's second largest rainforest, central Africa's Congo basin, with the help of satellite imaging technology. [News Source]

Spy satellite will monitor illegal logging across six African countries. A spy satellite is to be trained on the vast rainforests of central Africa as part of a British project designed to protect them from illegal logging under plans to be unveiled today. [News Source]

$150m plan to slash energy use. Households and businesses must make deep cuts in their energy use under a State Government plan that mirrors the way water consumption was cut during the drought, with the ambitious aim of slashing the growth in energy consumption to zero. [News Source]

Space cameras to monitor forests. Plans to use a state-of-the-art camera onboard a satellite to monitor deforestation levels in Africa's Congo Basin have been unveiled. [News Source]