Teen launches climate change nonprofit (The Kansas City Star) A 17-year-old Palo Alto, Calif., girl has launched what she hopes will become a nationwide youth movement focused on global warming. [News Source]

U.S.official warns of global warming (UPI) WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- A U.S. energy official has acknowledged that responding to global warming while meeting energy needs will be one of the greatest challenges faced by humanity. [News Source]

Delta deadlock. Century-old levees within the delta grow ever weaker, raising prospects of a Hurricane Katrina-like catastrophe. It might happen after an earthquake. Or it might happen as sea levels rise amid global warming. That it eventually will is viewed as certain. [News Source]

State joins suit filed against the EPA. Washington has joined 11 states, the city of New York and the District of Columbia in a federal lawsuit intended to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to use its regulatory authority to better fight global warming. [News Source]

Climate change consensus obscures candidate differences. Both presidential candidates support the need to curb greenhouse gases believed to cause global warming, but there are key differences in how they would implement a significant overhaul of the country’s energy infrastructure. [News Source]

Talking directly, and kindly, to believers in the eco life. Living green is not for the faint of heart. What roach killer should one use? How should one deal with environmentally oblivious in-laws? Can one generate electricity while exercising on a StairMaster? [News Source]

Rising sea buries Ghana village. Off Ghana, the Atlantic Ocean is rising. Every few years, residents must leave their homes and build new ones farther back. But Totope has no place left to run. If climate change predictions run true, it could be a preview for many coastal areas. [News Source]

Biden on the environment. Although not always considered one of the top "green" members of Congress, Biden has been a consistent supporter of federal action and policies to protect and clean up the environment. [News Source]

Climate change linked to longer pollen seasons. Add increased suffering for people with ragweed allergies to the list of problems caused by climate change, a new study suggests. [News Source]

Rising rivers threaten more misery in India. Rising rivers in eastern India swamped new areas and destroyed homes on Tuesday affecting more than two million people, as frustrated villagers beat up officials and others remained glued to weather radio bulletins. [News Source]

Japanese study finds worrying loss of blubber in whales. The team from the Institute of Cetacean Research in Tokyo, set up to analyse the results of the scientific whaling programme, says its study offers the first evidence that global warming could be harming whales, because it restricts food supplies. [News Source]