Big names debate global warming (Denver Post via Yahoo! News) Global warming prompted spirited debate Monday during a discussion of philanthropy that included media titan Ted Turner and former Irish president Mary Robinson. [News Source]

Global warming time bomb trapped in Arctic soil, study warns. Climate change could release unexpectedly huge stores of CO2 from Arctic soils, which would in turn fuel a vicious circle of global warming, a new study warns. Current models do not take this into account, some say. [News Source]

Drilling boom revives hopes for natural gas. American natural gas production is rising at a clip not seen in half a century, pushing down prices and reversing conventional wisdom that domestic gas fields were in irreversible decline. It is the cleanest fossil fuel. [News Source]

Betting on a hot market for syngas. Take a rusting, hulking pile of scrap metal, add a few tons of construction debris, and what do you get? In the case of Ze-gen Inc., a new source of energy. [News Source]

Nature reserve surrendered to rising seas. A major nature reserve is to become one of the first casualties of the rising seas around Britain. [News Source]

Billions of people suffer from acute water crisis. Climate change and China's ambitious hydro engineering projects are diverting water cascading from the Tibetan highland that source almost all the major rivers of Asia. [News Source]

Alpine melt reveals ancient life. Melting alpine glaciers are revealing fascinating clues to Neolithic life and the finds are also providing key indicators to climate change. [News Source]

Global warming could hurt ski resort values. Global warming could be the next factor to affect property values, at least in areas near ski resorts, according to a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. [News Source]

RSPB to protect nature reserve by surrendering marshland to the sea. The RSPB is to sacrifice part of Titchwell Marsh, on the north Norfolk coast, to protect its freshwater marshes and reedbeds, which are at risk of being being destroyed by the erosion of sea defences and rising sea levels. [News Source]

Climate change and the purpose of growth. The energy crisis is looming across the globe and so are the issues of pollution, environmental hazards, weather imbalance, and more commonly the dreaded word Global Warming! [News Source]

Global climate change may possibly destabilize populations and governments. International-security experts have suggested that climate-change-related damage to global ecosystems and the resulting competition for natural resources may increasingly serve as triggers for wars and other conflicts in the future. [News Source]