Turning CO2 into chalk and sand. A new technique could make carbon sequestration economical on a large scale, while producing useful materials on the side. [News Source]

The kind of misery itched in memory. Polar bears might be endangered because global warming is melting their homes on arctic ice shelves, but one species is thriving: poison ivy. [News Source]

Allergic reaction to climate change. Alaska is on the frontlines of climate change, with temperatures rising four times more than the rest of the world. And with rising temperatures and more precipitation, allergies and stinging insects are also on the rise. [News Source]

Carbon caveat. Adding carbon compounds to ocean water can sometimes affect microbe communities in ways that result in less stored carbon dioxide than has been assumed. The oceans’ carbon storage is an important factor in predicting the severity of climate change. [News Source]

West Africa’s coastline redrawn by climate change. Rising sea levels caused by climate change will brutally redraw a 4,000-kilometre (2500-mile) stretch of west African coastline from Senegal to Cameroon by century's end, experts told AFP Friday. [News Source]

Experts sound global warming alarm at US senate session in RI. Witnesses testifying Thursday at a field hearing of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee said effects of global warming are being felt right now in Rhode Island and particularly in Narragansett Bay. [News Source]

Study to predict climate change. Academics in Perth are leading an international project to predict how climate change will affect communities and how they can prepare for it. [News Source]

Global warming blamed for big melt. The hike to Conness Glacier was much shorter 100 years ago. In the past century, the ice mass — located a stone's heave away from Yosemite's eastern border — has retreated up the steep, northeast facing mountainside below Mount Conness' jagged peak. [News Source]

CAT’s-eye view of ocean. Constant monitoring over time gives key data on global warming. [News Source]

Preparing for flooding in the Meadowlands. Scientists are setting up monitoring stations throughout the Meadowlands to chart rising sea levels and prepare for flooding that could result from global warming. [News Source]

Tanzanian scientist: Mt. Kilimanjaro snow not to go. A physicist from the University of Dar es Salaam has claimed that the snow cap on Mount Kilimanjaro would not disappear around 2017 as some scientists have suggested. [News Source]