US presidential candidates resist watering down climate plans. Both Obama and McCain are promising to implement radical cap-and-trade plans that would curb US carbon emissions - in McCain's case a 60 per cent cut below 1990 levels by 2050, in Obama's an 80 per cent decline. [News Source]

Shell to pull ‘greenwash’ ad on Canadian oilsands projects. A ruling by Britain's advertising regulator against oil giant Shell has prompted a new World Wildlife Fund campaign denouncing the petroleum company's "greenwash" tactics in promoting its Canadian oilsands projects. [News Source]

Climate at ‘a critical point,’ scientist says. The head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies says the global warming debate is over, and the issue has turned urgent. [News Source]

La Costa Canyon grad hot on climate change. To better understand climate change and learn how to get local communities involved, Rebecca Chan and 23 other students from across Canada and California gathered for a four-day conference held on the campus of UC San Diego. [News Source]

Climate change could threaten a green Willets Point. Amid all the controversy swirling around Willets Point, very few have questioned whether the city's "first green neighborhood" will eventually be submerged by water. [News Source]

Crash of the cottonwoods. Because they need seasonal floods and access to groundwater to reproduce and thrive, cottonwood trees say a lot about the health of a water supply. A century of overgrazing, logging and pumping has depleted and reshaped the San Pedro River. [News Source]

Scientists branch out to building robot trees. Madurai Kamaraj University's department of bioenergy and centre for biodiversity and forest studies is working to build 'robot' trees that will absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. [News Source]

Holding back the rising tides. Higher tides caused by global warming could soon turn Nova Scotia into an island, says local MP Bill Casey. [News Source]

African firms start to take action on climate change. With global warming expected to hit Africa hard, some companies in the "forgotten continent" are taking action themselves to fight climate change. [News Source]

New fund for carbon projects. Local companies which want to get carbon credits from their businesses yet face financial obstacles can now get a booster shot from the government. [News Source]

Norway agrees $60 mn carbon capture research. Norwegian research groups and industrial company Aker ASA agreed on Thursday to invest 317 million Norwegian crowns ($58.97 million) in a reseach project to capture greenhouse gases. [News Source]