It’s not you, it’s the sea: heat hurts shellfish relationships. Oysters, lobsters, mussels, sea urchins and abalone could be wiped off the menu by global warming, because ocean acidification will decrease their fertility. [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]

“Green” land grab could sow seeds of new conflict. Land and food prices are expected to remain high as a growing, richer world demands more land for settlement and food, while climate change threatens more droughts. [News Source]

Psychologists determine what it means to think ‘green’. Armed with new research into what makes some people environmentally conscious, psychologists are working to define a broader sense of eco-sensitivity that the group believes will translate into more public action to protect the planet. [News Source]

Global warming blamed for increased wildfire risk. Global warming and past forest management are making forests in the western U.S. more susceptible to fire while large wildfires are blamed with making climate change worse and putting unnatural stress on ecosystems, according to a report released Thursday. [News Source]

Global warming brings an early laying season for Britain’s birds. Climate change is causing familiar British birds to lay their eggs earlier, according to a survey of UK bird populations. [News Source]

West bracing for day the wells run dry. For all the chatter about climate change, the patterns of the rain continue to be something of a mystery, says Ilse Gayl, who heads the One Rain monitoring company. [News Source]

Global oxygen level falling, warn scientists. Compared to prehistoric times, the level of oxygen in the earth's atmosphere has fallen by over a third and in polluted cities the decline could be more than 50 percent. [News Source]

Is global warming putting garden birds at risk by making them lay their eggs earlier? Rising temperatures are making our best-loved birds lay their eggs earlier, say conservationists. [News Source]

Réunion aims for carbon neutrality. Hit by rising fuel costs and worried about the impact of global warming, particularly on its delicate flora and fauna, the island of Réunion has set itself the ambitious goal of eliminating all its greenhouse gas emissions. [News Source]

Maryland solar power grants prove popular. Once the state made its solar power incentives much more generous - up to $10,000 per home - dozens of Maryland families jumped on the solar bandwagon. [News Source]