Global warming boosting power of cyclones—study (Manila Standard Today) PARIS—Global warming is likely to boost the power of the strongest tropical cyclones, according to a study by American scientists. [News Source]

Everyone should have one meat-free day a week to tackle climate change, says UN (Daily Mail) Everyone should have one meat-free day a week to help save the planet, a leading expert on global warming has claimed. Dr Rajendra Pachauri said meat farming produces enormous amounts of greenhouse gases. [News Source]

The world in a test tube. From plug-ins to planktonic algae, technology is part of the solution to climate change. But which technology? [News Source]

The frugal cornucopian. Amory Lovins began making the case for resource efficiency decades ago, long before it became fashionable. Now things are going his way. [News Source]

Gustav’s lessons for New Orleans. The fatal failures of Hurricane Katrina were not repeated: levees and flood walls didn't collapse, pumps didn't break down, and most residents fled the coast before Gustav's landfall. [News Source]

Warmth opens Arctic routes, experts say. Leading ice specialists in Europe and the United States for the first time have agreed that a ring of navigable waters has opened all around the fringes of the cap of sea ice drifting on the warming Arctic Ocean. [News Source]

Glaciers facing massive meltdown, says UN report. THE United Nations says swathes of mountain ranges worldwide risk losing their glaciers by the end of the century if global warming continues at its projected rate. [News Source]

Is global warming worsening hurricanes? All these hurricanes in such a short period of time begs the question: are storms getting stronger, and if so, what's causing it? According to a new paper in Nature, the answer is yes — and global warming seems to be the culprit. [News Source]

The drowning ice. Scientists said they could no longer rule out a fast-track melting of the Greenland ice sheet — a prospect, once the preserve of doomsayers, that would see much of the world’s coastline drowned by rising seas. [News Source]

Sea level rise won’t be a “Hollywood Cataclysm”. Sea levels will rise a bit higher—but not catastrophically high—in the coming century, according to a new study. [News Source]

California aims to concentrate growth to cut use of cars. California is poised to pass the first law in the nation linking greenhouse gas emissions to urban planning, a departure from the growth approach that spawned the state's car culture and urban sprawl. [News Source]