‘Fingerprints of climate change’ chase plants to cooler climes (Contra Costa Times) n The effects of climate change are being felt all over - mountaintops and polar regions [News Source]

Tax-free financing for coal power plants under attack. Environmental activists and others are opening a new frontier in their fight against coal-fired power plants by questioning the use of tax-exempt bonds to help fund such projects. [News Source]

Can weeds help solve the climate crisis? An ecologist with the Agriculture Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is exploring what global climate change could do to mankind’s relationship with weeds. [News Source]

Forest invades tundra, and the new tenants could aggravate global warming. Encroaching conifer forests -- now growing above the Arctic Circle -- threaten to further spike the far North's already low-grade fever. [News Source]

Scientists work on short-term climate predictions. Strange as it might seem, it is easier to predict changes in the climate 100 years from now than one decade from now, say scientists gathering this week in Aspen. [News Source]

‘Rising seas threat to coastal towns.’ Rising sea levels are likely to have a profound impact on Cape Town in the not too distant future, in particular on the livelihoods and circumstances of poor people, according to an international climate change expert. [News Source]

Checking ‘plumbing’ in North. Devon Island, just south of Ellesmere, is one of best places on Earth to get a feel for ice sheets, perhaps the wildest card in the global warming equation. A scientific team is probing Devon's fastest flowing glacier from top to bottom. [News Source]

Not-so-perma permafrost. If you lived in the Arctic you'd already notice the effects of climate change. The Arctic sea ice is melting at a rapid and accelerating pace and it's having a dramatic effect on the permafrost, the permanently frozen tundra. [News Source]

Move it or lose it . The brewing menace of climate change threatens many species in California's rich flora, suggests a new analysis that models how the distribution of plants in the state may change over the next 100 years. [News Source]

Russia faces melting ice menace at critical facilities. Global warming could deal destructive blows to Russia's defence infrastructure over the next 22 years, a top official said in Moscow last week. [News Source]

Warming world sends plants uphill. Climate change has caused plants to seek cooler conditions at higher altitudes, scientists suggest. [News Source]