Plant trees on campus, DepEd orders all schools. Beginning this school year, all public and private schools nationwide will be required to plant trees on their campuses as part of the Department of Education's contribution to the effort to lessen the effects of global warming, according to a DepEd circular. [News Source]

Air board’s ambitious plan to battle warming. California's air board, for years an obscure state agency, will take center stage this week when it unveils a blueprint for the nation's most aggressive fight against global warming. [News Source]

Sick salmon. As climate change heats up rivers, fish like Alaskan King Salmon are getting infected with “ich,” a parasite that interferes with their run up the Yukon River to spawn. [News Source]

Going green: New report shows thousands of potential jobs created as focus shifts to environment. Green is in: signifying more than color, the word green represents what may be the key to future economic growth in this region. [News Source]

Preacher traded man’s law for God’s. Alan Gantzhorn became an expert on environmental cases during his stint as a Georgia assistant attorney general. Now, as pastor of a rural Molino church, he has to deal with a whole new set of environmental problems. [News Source]

Arctic officials say flood waters no longer eroding land under town. Officials in a remote Baffin Island community said Saturday conditions appear to have stabilized after a flash flood looked as though it might wash the community away from underneath. [News Source]

Tibet prepares plan to fight environmental hazards. Tibet is planning an "ecological security" plan to counter threats from global warming and rapid development to glaciers and grasslands on the roof of the world, its top environmental official said. [News Source]

Hunted, rammed, poisoned, whales may die from heartbreak, too. More than two decades after the start of a leaky moratorium on whale hunting, the most majestic of sea mammals have made little headway in recovering their once robust populations, say experts. [News Source]

Changing climate will lead to more extreme weather conditions in the future. Droughts, heavy downpours, excessive heat, and intense hurricanes are likely to become more commonplace as humans continue to increase the atmospheric concentrations of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. [News Source]

Northwest Natural’s big pipes, big dreams. Global warming, it turns out, means big business for NW Natural. At no time in its 149-year history has this stodgy, local gas monopoly occupied such a controversial spot in Oregon's energy picture -- or enjoyed the prospect of such handsome returns. [News Source]

For geoengineers, all the world’s a lab. The next frontier in environmental science -- particularly climate science -- may involve using the Earth itself as a platform. Will the costs be too great to bear? [News Source]