Phasing out coal emissions might help fight global warming. A team of researchers have determined that the ongoing rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning of fossil fuels might be kept below harmful levels if emissions from coal are phased out within the next few decades. [News Source]

Flagship emissions trading scheme set to benefit UK’s worst polluters. A flagship European scheme designed to fight global warming is set to hand hundreds of millions of pounds to some of Britain's most polluting companies--with little or no benefit to the environment. [News Source]

Return to normal gas supply hinges on Ike’s ferocity. Gasoline became scarce along Hurricane Ike evacuation routes, and the domino effect went as far as the Carolinas as supplies veered toward the Gulf Coast, ready to restock where terminals closed and gas stations ran dry. [News Source]

Ike’s surge swamps lower St. Tammany. The storm crashed ashore in St. Tammany with a ferocity exceeding last week's Hurricane Gustav, and it caused the most flooding that many neighborhoods on or near the lake shore had seen since Hurricane Katrina three years ago. [News Source]

Relentless surf pounding Texas. As Hurricane Ike bore down on the barrier island city of Galveston, emergency officials estimated that 40 percent of its residents stayed behind despite strong warnings to flee. [News Source]

Colossal Ike lashes Texas coast. A colossal Hurricane Ike menaced the darkened Texas coast early Saturday, ensuring a sleepless night for thousands who huddled and waited to find out if a gamble to face the storm head-on could cost them their lives. [News Source]

What Hurricane Ike will do to gas prices. Almost a quarter of the nation's oil refining capacity was shut down in anticipation of the storm. [News Source]

Hurricane Ike threatens ‘massive flooding’ on Texan coast. Residents in parts of Texas were told to evacuate their homes or face "certain death" from flooding caused by the oncoming hurricane Ike. [News Source]

Global warming could cost Ohio its buckeyes. Environmentalists said Friday that climate change might push the growing range of Ohio's iconic buckeye tree out of the state, leaving it for archrival Michigan. [News Source]

Antarctic sea ice increases despite warming. The amount of sea ice around Antarctica has grown in recent Septembers in what could be an unusual side-effect of global warming, experts say. [News Source]

Climate change could devastate Philippines. Climate change could have a devastating impact on the Philippines, leading to widespread destruction of the country's flora and fauna and flooding the capital Manila, a NASA scientist warned here Friday. [News Source]