Climate change report due today (Perth Now) THE draft report of the Garnaut Review into the impact on Australia of climate change will be made public at lunchtime today. [News Source]

Why Canada is the best haven from climate change (Independent) A group of islands with the potential to develop into a tourist paradise has been named as the country least equipped to withstand the effects of climate change. [News Source]

Cornell’s Project Budbreak encourages citizens to study local effects of climate change (Cornell News Service) For most people, climate change seems an intractable problem, involving such distant issues as melting Arctic ice and threatened polar bears. But now, concerned citizens can get involved by studying the effects of global warming on plants in their own backyards. [News Source]

California fights extreme heat. Heat waves that once lasted days could instead last for months. That adds up to dangerous conditions, especially for the elderly. [News Source]

Hot future shock: heat wave temperatures to soar. Recent computer models are predicting a dramatic increase in temperature, leading to extreme heatwaves worldwide. [News Source]

Bush makes final push for global climate deal. In his final months in office, President Bush is mounting a last-ditch effort to forge a new global deal to limit greenhouse-gas emissions but finds himself once again at odds with much of the rest of the world on how to address climate change. [News Source]

Where’s the global food crisis taking us? In five years' time, we could be living in a world where millions are dying in famines with no food aid to hand, regular storms and droughts wipe out acres of crops, and skyrocketing food prices have created global political panic, food experts say. [News Source]

Some species could be wiped out 100 times faster than feared, say researchers. Endangered species could become extinct 100 times faster than previously thought, scientists warned yesterday in a bleak reassessment of the threats to global biodiversity. [News Source]

Deep trouble. Global warming is forcing North Sea fish to head to greater depths. [News Source]

Penguin chicks frozen by global warming? With daytime temperatures above freezing, unusual rains soaked young Adélie and gentoo penguins not yet equipped with water-repellent feathers. At night, when the mercury dipped below freezing, the wet chicks froze. [News Source]

Humans, global warming threaten penguins. A U.S. scientist says global warming, fishing and petroleum pollution are all contributing to declines, some severe, in many species of penguins. [News Source]