Report says severe weather to increase as earth warms. As humans emit more greenhouse gases, North America is likely to experience more droughts and excessive heat even as intense downpours and hurricanes increase, according to a new report. [News Source]

Burst levees force a town to consider its future. In Missouri and Illinois cities and towns, weary residents watch the river and think of the future. While no single flood can be ascribed to growing global influence on climate, the odds are tipping toward more intense extremes. [News Source]

Biggest firms call for huge cuts in emissions to start green industrial revolution. Heads of 100 of the world's biggest companies will today call on political leaders to agree huge cuts in greenhouse gases to stimulate a "green industrial revolution". [News Source]

Global warming changes Arctic way of life. Life in Greenland has changed a lot already and over the next 100 years, but global warming is likely to bring further ecological and social impact. [News Source]

Bangladesh set to disappear under the waves by the end of the century. Bangladesh, the most crowded nation on earth, is set to disappear under the waves by the end of this century – and we will be to blame. [News Source]

EPA to study Oyster River watershed. The Environmental Protection Agency plans to use the Seacoast's Oyster River watershed to study how to deal with the impending effects of global warming, officials announced yesterday. [News Source]

Bush administration links extreme weather to global warming. Droughts, heavy rain, heat waves, wildfires and intense hurricanes are more likely to affect North America because of global warming's effect on extreme weather, the Bush Administration's Climate Change Science Program said Thursday. [News Source]

Retreating Antarctic sea ice threatens southern whales. The retreat of Antarctic sea ice because of global warming will threaten already endangered migratory whales by reducing their feeding areas, the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) said on Thursday. [News Source]

Warming threat to krill, whales. Antarctic whales are threatened by shrinking foraging zones and the need to swim hundreds of kilometres further to find food because of climate change, a WWF report says. [News Source]

More extreme weather expected for U.S. As President Bush tours Midwest flood zones today, a new administration report on extreme weather warns that human-induced climate change is making heavy downpours more intense, with storms that used to occur every 20 years projected to occur every six by the end of the century. [News Source]

Iowa-like floods to increase with global warming. The chances for extreme weather in the U.S. such as the record rainfall and flooding in Iowa this month are increasing as worldwide temperatures rise, a government agency that researches climate change said. [News Source]