Life may be too hot for tuatara to handle. Male tuatara can look forward to a sexless, dateless and lonely future because of global warming, which could eventually lead to the living fossil's extinction. [News Source]

After 200 million years, all-male future spells doom for reptiles. The only survivors in the wild of an order of reptiles that scampered with dinosaurs could be wiped out because climate change will turn them all into males. [News Source]

Abandon coal for gas to help planet: StatoilHydro CEO. Old coal-fired power plants should be closed and replaced by cleaner gas plants to slash carbon emissions, the Chief Executive of the biggest gas producer in Europe said on Wednesday. [News Source]

Drivers on Canada West Coast now paying carbon tax. North America's first comprehensive carbon tax is now in effect in the Canadian West Coast province of British Columbia, greeted with complaints that some gasoline stations have used the tax as cover to raise prices more than necessary. [News Source]

G-8 climate scorecard shows US in last. The U.S. has done the least among the world's eight largest economies to address global warming, a study released Thursday found. [News Source]

World Bank approves climate funds before G8 summit. The World Bank on Tuesday agreed to establish two investment funds to help developing economies switch to clean-energy technologies to curb carbon emissions and help poor countries adapt to climate change. [News Source]

Avoiding climate change disaster is affordable, says PwC. Severe adverse effects from climate change can be avoided at a reasonable cost but only if politicians stop talking and start acting, a major report from PricewaterhouseCoopers said today. [News Source]

Carbon trade a threat to Australian firms - industry . Australian businesses, particularly large energy companies, will be forced to close doors unless they are allowed to pass on the cost of carbon emissions trading to consumers, big business warned on Thursday. [News Source]

Can bovine growth hormone help slow global warming?. Industry scientists say bovine growth hormone can by reducing the number of greenhouse-gas-emitting cows as it increases the remaining ruminants' output. [News Source]

G8: Japan showcases its environmental policy. Japan has one of the world’s most aggressive environmental policies, set both to meet 2012 emission reduction targets and to make the country -- which has no natural resources of its own -- less dependent on imports, according to experts meeting here. [News Source]

Climate concerns halt US coal plant. The US state of Georgia has blocked construction of a new coal-fired power station because of concerns over its carbon dioxide emissions. [News Source]