Global warming could gulp Sabarmati: Panel 12 Jul 2008, 0336 hrs IST, Rahul Mangaonkar,TNN (The Times of India) AHMEDABAD: The Sabarmati riverfront development project could be under threat. The National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) has thrown up a scenario which may end up with the Sabarmati river disappearing altogether. [News Source]

U.N. warming program draws fire. A United Nations program designed to combat global warming has started doing something no one expected: It is subsidizing fossil-fuel power plants that spew millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere annually. [News Source]

EPA won’t act on emissions this year. The Bush administration has decided not to take any new steps to regulate greenhouse gas emissions before the president leaves office, despite pressure from the Supreme Court and broad accord among senior federal officials. [News Source]

A quarter of the world’s corals face extinction. The first comprehensive review of tropical coral species reveals that over one-quarter reef-building coral species already face extinction. Corals join frogs and toads as the most threatened group of animal species on the planet. [News Source]

Warming spells trouble for fish. Global warming of the oceans will likely cause the extinction by 2050 of dozens of fish species that cannot migrate to colder waters. [News Source]

Study: Global coral crisis is in full bloom. A new research paper in the journal Science says as much as a third of the world's coral species may now be headed toward extinction, thanks to problems ranging from destructive fishing boats to ocean waters warmed by global climate change. [News Source]

A time to sow? GM food could curb cost of staples. As world food prices surge and shortages loom, genetically modified crops look increasingly tempting as a way to raise agricultural yields without using more energy or chemicals. [News Source]

Antarctic ice shelf ‘hanging by thread’: European scientists. New evidence has emerged that a large plate of floating ice shelf attached to Antarctica is breaking up, in a troubling sign of global warming, the European Space Agency said on Thursday. [News Source]

Study links global warming to more smog. U.S. environmental regulators quietly published a draft study on Thursday that linked global warming to higher levels of smog that could harm human health, a report green groups said stood in contrast to the Bush Administration's slow movement on climate change. [News Source]

Australia faces food crisis as rivers reach new low. The drought in Australia's main food bowl, the Murray-Darling Basin, has worsened, with record low inflows into the river system. The dire assessment follows a warning that Australia – the world's driest populated continent – could expect the frequency of heatwaves to increase tenfold. [News Source]

China to urgently boost GM crop development. China has said it must urgently step up the development of genetically modified crops as it faces mounting challenges to feed its 1.3 billion people due to shrinking arable land and climate change. [News Source]