Ban Pledges Support for Pacific Islands Over Climate Change (Bloomberg.com) Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The United Nations will create a climate change center to help Pacific island nations threatened by rising seas because of global warming, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. [News Source]

Ban Pledges Support for Pacific Islands Over Climate Change (Bloomberg.com) Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The United Nations will create a climate change center to help Pacific island nations threatened by rising seas because of global warming, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. [News Source]

Birds can’t keep up with climate change: study (TODAYonline) A bird flies over the sea after sunset. The habitats of wild bird species are shifting in response to global warming, but not fast enough to keep pace with rising temperatures, according to a study released Wednesday. [News Source]

Birds can’t keep up with climate change: study (AFP via Yahoo! News) The habitats of wild bird species are shifting in response to global warming, but not fast enough to keep pace with rising temperatures, according to a study released Wednesday. [News Source]

Climate change: US environmentalists claim global warming threatens small mammal (Guardian Unlimited) Lawsuit claims the American pika should be protected by the US Endangered Species Act [News Source]

Global warming threatens small mammal, lawsuit charges (The San Luis Obispo Tribune) Compared to the polar bear, the American pika is downright tiny. Weighing only 4 ounces to 6 ounces, this small, rabbitlike mammal with thick brown hair that lives on boulder-covered slopes near alpine meadows in Western mountain ranges, could represent the latest effort to use the Endangered Species Act to combat global warming. Environmentalists filed a lawsuit Tuesday in U.S. district court ... [News Source]

Sticks and carrots. From towns and counties to states to federal agencies, and even at the UN, governments are grappling with how to integrate environmental concerns into policies affecting people and the economy. [News Source]

Anti-regulation aide to Cheney is up for energy post. A senior Cheney aide is the leading contender to become a top official at the Energy Dept. This would put one of the administration's most ardent opponents of environmental regulation in charge of forming department policies on climate change. [News Source]

Spain sweats amid ‘water wars’ . Climate experts warn that the country is suffering badly from the impact of climate change and that the Sahara is slowly creeping north - into the Spanish mainland. [News Source]

Biofuels, batteries, and solar cells: The future of driving. In the next decade, people may have to decide whether they want to pump or plug-in when purchasing a new car. If plug-in hybrid electric vehicles click with consumers, the way we refuel our cars could start to change drastically. [News Source]

Living a green dream on Danish island. Concerns about energy security may run high elsewhere in Europe, but on the windswept Danish island of Samso the inhabitants have achieved a decade-long target of self-sufficiency in renewable power. [News Source]