Wheat yield on decline due to temperature rise. Global warming coupled with climate change will adversely affect wheat production in India, according to an industry study. [News Source]

June rain breaks 20-year record in Chandigarh. With 376.4 mm rainfall this year during the month, Chandigarh experienced the highest recorded June rainfall in the last 20 years - breaking the previous record of 256.6mm in 1988. [News Source]

Region’s 5-year wet streak hits a dry patch. Despite chronic storm threats and occasional drops of actual rain, a brown tide has crept across the Philadelphia region's landscape. [News Source]

Knowing the problem, searching for solutions. Despite the dire stakes, most Aspen Ideas Festival speakers on climate and sustainibility expressed a belief that humanity would solve the climate crisis. [News Source]

Scientists set forth proposals to tame climate. Scientists from 12 academies round the world have met in Tokyo to issue a statement on the inevitable long-term rise in temperature. [News Source]

Vt. officials lead on system for carbon emissions. Vermont has been instrumental in shaping the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which is designed to help the Northeast aggressively cut its carbon pollution levels. [News Source]

Brazilian ethanol plant sells carbon dioxide from its cane. Brazilian ethanol plants are squeezing as much value as they can from sugar cane. [News Source]

Challenges abound for Bush at last economic summit. Atop the summit agenda is reaching a deal that would set targets for reducing the pollution that causes global warming. But few expect major headway or concessions from Bush. [News Source]

EU ministers ‘discover’ biofuels not an obligation. European Union energy ministers announced during an informal meeting Saturday that they had been labouring for 18 months under the false impression that an EU plan to fight global warming included an obligation to develop controversial biofuels. [News Source]

Harper government not counting on climate deal with G8. Canada isn't expecting a new deal on climate change at next week's Group of Eight summit in Japan, Environment Minister John Baird said Saturday. [News Source]

President George W. Bush, World Leaders Lay Out Goals For G-8 Summit. Japanese prime minister Fukuda has made climate change the centerpiece of the meetings involving leaders from the U.S., Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Russia and Canada. [News Source]