Cars, trucks stream inland in Texas as Ike nears. Cars and trucks streamed inland and chemical companies buttoned up their plants Thursday as a gigantic Hurricane Ike took aim at the heart of the U.S. refining industry and threatened to send a wall of water crashing toward Houston. [News Source]

Ike is rolling in, Texans are rolling out. Facing a hurricane that Gov. Rick Perry said could have "extraordinary impact," authorities ordered the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of residents of low-lying coastal areas, in addition to chemical plants and refineries. [News Source]

Gasoline prices ignore falling oil cost, spike as Ike heads toward Texas. Gasoline prices jumped to unprecedented levels in the wholesale markets Thursday as Hurricane Ike tore across the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to strike Texas and its refineries. [News Source]

Desperate Cuba charges US is ‘lying’ on storm aid. Reeling from almost nationwide destruction from hurricanes Gustav and Ike, cash-strapped Cuba Thursday charged the United States was "lying" about its stated willingness to help the communist country. [News Source]

Food aid arrives in Haiti but delivery is still difficult. Food and fresh water ran dangerously low on Thursday for thousands in the flood-stricken Haitian city of Gonaives, as governments and aid groups struggled to get aid to people. [News Source]

Haiti city hit by storms needs clean water, food. Floods that devastated a Haitian city and killed hundreds threaten to trigger a health crisis and fresh outbreaks of food riots in the impoverished Caribbean country, government officials and aid workers say. [News Source]

Knox hit with gas shortage. Knoxville-area drivers are seeing more bags on gasoline pumps today as a petroleum shortage from Gustav spreading throughout the Southeast hits local gas stations, groceries and convenience stores. [News Source]

Keeping carbon emission to 2005 levels not enough: study. Painting a grim picture, a new study shows that even if greenhouse gas emissions are fixed at 2005 levels, irreversible warming will lead to biodiversity loss and substantial glacial melt. [News Source]

A melting village. Kivalina's precarious situation has been worsened by a changing climate. The eroding village is running out of time: It has to move. [News Source]

Honey, climate change is shrinking the species. Ecologists say climate change will shrink species. [News Source]

Hot times. A new global temperature reconstruction, undertaken as a follow-up to the infamous 1998 'hockey stick' curve, confirms that the past two decades are the warmest in recent history. [News Source]