Study to predict climate change (BBC News) Researchers in Perth lead a £1.9m study into ways communities can adapt and benefit from climate change. [News Source]

Clash over plan to save tropical forests. Conservation and justice groups split over forest carbon trading amid fears that a 'land grab' could leave millions worse off. [News Source]

U.S. climate exchange farm deals raise questions. The largest U.S. greenhouse gas emissions market has paid farmers millions of dollars in the name of fighting climate change, but the money may have done little, if anything, to slow global warming. [News Source]

World heading towards cooler 2008. This year appears set to be the coolest globally this century; the principal reason is La Niña, part of the natural cycle that also includes El Niño, which cools the globe. [News Source]

Turbulent times for climate model. Researchers are running out of time to finish updating an important U.S. climate change model that has been hamstrung by the budget woes of its home institution, the National Center for Atmospheric Research. [News Source]

Observers spot 9 polar bears in open ocean. Federal wildlife monitors spotted nine polar bears in one day swimming in open ocean off Alaska's northwest coast, and environmental groups say the event is a strong signal that diminished sea ice brought on by warming has put U.S. bears at risk of drowning or dying from effects of fatigue. [News Source]

Warming threatens crucial Himalayan water resources, forum told. Climate change poses a serious threat to essential water resources in the Himalayan region putting the livelihoods of 1.3 billion people at risk, experts said Thursday. [News Source]

Northern Greenland glaciers showing fractures, large break; Is it global warming? In northern Greenland, a part of the Arctic that had seemed immune from global warming, new satellite images show a growing giant crack and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a major glacier. [News Source]

Melting Beaufort Sea busy this summer. The melting polar ocean has seen unprecedented activity, with icebreakers from China, Japan, Germany and the U.S. currently cruising waters off Canada's northern coast to gather geological data and conduct climate research. [News Source]

Delegates told to speed up talks on climate change. Africa already is suffering from "climate shocks," the president of Ghana told a 160-nation climate conference Thursday, joining a chorus of calls to speed up the pace of talks on a new agreement to rein in carbon emissions. [News Source]

Sealing the gap. The Antarctic ocean, with its vast tracts of ice and climatically crucial ocean circulation patterns, is particularly vulnerable to warming. But lack of access to the ocean beneath the ice has hampered knowledge of the region. [News Source]