Climate Change: From Snowball Earth to Global Warming (Art Daily) Earth sunset, July 21, 2003 Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center ISS007-E 10807. An International Space Station crewmember took this photo of the sun setting over the Pacific Ocean. Anvil tops of thunderclouds are also visible. [News Source]

Climate Change: From Snowball Earth to Global Warming (Art Daily) Earth sunset, July 21, 2003 Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center ISS007-E 10807. An International Space Station crewmember took this photo of the sun setting over the Pacific Ocean. Anvil tops of thunderclouds are also visible. [News Source]

Court says no deadline for EPA on global warming. A federal appeals court refused Thursday to make a resistant Bush administration speed up a decision on whether greenhouse gases and global warming threaten public health and welfare. [News Source]

State renews climate battle. California's next great experiment starts today. The state Air Resources Board will outline this morning a plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2020 and prepare the state for much deeper cuts in the years beyond. [News Source]

EU reaches landmark deal to cap airline emissions. The European Union reached a landmark agreement Thursday to cap emissions from aircraft, raising the stakes in an increasingly ferocious battle with the United States over how to regulate global greenhouse gases. [News Source]

Discouraging driving crucial in warming battle. California's landmark law to fight global warming, made public Thursday by the state's air board, addresses a problem that planning groups say has been overlooked in most federal legislation: suburban sprawl. [News Source]

Higher temperatures aid West Nile transmission. Global warming could make West Nile virus more of a threat than it currently is, as warmer temperatures increase the rate of virus multiplication in mosquitoes, according to a UC Santa Cruz study. [News Source]

Climate race separates the weeds from the trees. In a large review of plant surveys, researchers have found that quick-breeding grasses are adapting quickly to climate change and moving up the sides of mountains, leaving the slower-growing trees behind. [News Source]

After branching out into Alberta, pine beetles take root. Warmer winters have allowed British Columbia's forest pest to become a permanent thorn in the side of the Wild Rose province. [News Source]

How river engineering is tied to US floods. In the past 7,000 years, the Mississippi River's really big floods came at times of rapid climate change, whether warming or cooling - a pattern researchers see in the "anomalous high frequency of large floods since about 1950." [News Source]

Green-collar jobs growth predicted. At least 3 million Australian jobs could change beyond recognition because of global warming, but net employment will show healthy growth if the nation adapts smartly, a CSIRO report has found. [News Source]