Vanishing animal migrations need saving, experts say. Habitat destruction and climate change are making migrations increasingly difficult for many species, but it's not too late to bring these visually spectacular and environmentally critical mass movements back, a new study finds. [News Source]

Climate change in action in Greenland. Climate change is change, and change happens over time. In some places of the world, that change is happening more quickly than in others, so quickly that we can almost catch it. One of those places is the coastal town of Ilulissat, Greenland. [News Source]

China’s bad air affects Alaska. Industrial pollutants from China's use of coal are plating out across the globe, including Alaska, brought by storms transporting tons of airborne chemicals that shower onto coastal waters and inland where they end up in the local food chain. [News Source]

Herpes hits French oyster industry. Scientists have identified a form of herpes as the culprit in a widespread viral outbreak that has killed as many as 8 billion French oysters in recent weeks. [News Source]

Arcachon Bay oysters banned after health scare. Authorities have banned the sale and consumption of oysters from the beautiful Arcachon Bay in south-western France following the discovery they may have been tainted by poisonous microalgae. [News Source]

Has global warming stopped? A new army of sceptics have mushroomed on Internet blog sites and elsewhere in recent months to challenge some of the most basic assumptions and claims of climate change science. [News Source]

Violence to rise as city gets hotter. Rising temperatures are likely to bring increased levels of violence to Melbourne by 2010, and are highly likely to by 2030, a report being considered by the city council finds. [News Source]

Once-mighty Darling drying up. The Darling River is flowing no more, with the iconic waterway reduced in places to a series of interlinked pools, because a combination of drought and upstream irrigation have brought the river to a standstill. [News Source]

Climate maps offer wildlife hope of sanctuary. For the tigers of the Sundarbans, where rising sea level poses such an overwhelming threat, calculating the impact of climate change is relatively straightforward. But predicting the prospects for many other species and ecosystems is more complicated. [News Source]

Postcard: Greenland. To understand what has happened to the earth's atmosphere--and, therefore, how our climate might change in the future--some ice-core scientists in the Arctic are training their eyes directly downward. [News Source]

Flood risk rises as Earth gets warmer. Flash floods are notoriously hard to predict, and worse, look set to increase in frequency as the Earth heats up through global warming. [News Source]