Fighting global warming — now where’s that magic bullet? (Crikey) The temptation for our politicians to look for magic bullet technological solutions to global warming is great. The notion that a technological deus ex machine will spare us from having to adjust our consumption patterns – and therefore spare politicians voter angst -- continues to fascinate (Freeman Dyson recently advocated genetically-modified carbon-eating trees ). [News Source]

Britain: a leader in tackling climate change? Far from it, says new report. Britain's true contribution to global warming is much higher than official figures show, ministers admit. And it has been rising rapidly at the very time that they have been boasting that it has been falling. [News Source]

Prospects dim for G8 climate change deal. Prospects that the G8 would reach a meaningful agreement to how best to fight global warming at their annual summit dimmed on Sunday. [News Source]

Airline companies try to find more ways to fly green. Although aviation represents only 3 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, that share is likely to rise as air traffic grows. [News Source]

Manure magic. Dealing with large amounts of manure on industrial livestock farms has never been easy, environmentally sustainable, or profitable, but that's starting to change. [News Source]

Ethereal, exotic and exceptionally fragile. As Canada's great butterfly census begins, some of those who study them see a darkening future for the insects and, by extension, for all life. [News Source]

Extinction warning: Orangutans fall victim to logging, planting. Orangutan numbers have declined sharply on the only two islands where they still live in the wild, and they could become the first great-ape species to go extinct if urgent action isn't taken, a new study found. [News Source]

Global warming may spoil India’s wheat crop. Amid record wheat output estimate, here comes the dampener: The country's wheat production may fall by about half a ton per hectare in 10 years if suitable steps are not taken to tackle climate change, says a study. [News Source]

Warming may cause rapid plant species loss on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Global warming could cause a dramatic decline in plant species diversity on the rangelands of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in southwest China, say Chinese and U.S. scientists. [News Source]

U.N. Climate Chief: Climate change to worsen global food crisis. The global food crisis will only worsen because of climate change, the United Nations climate chief said, urging leaders of the world’s richest countries meeting in Japan next week to set goals to reduce carbon emissions within the next dozen years. [News Source]

Penguin in a coal mine? Populations are dwindling from a combination of global warming and pollution. [News Source]