Alien invasion: Non-indigenous spiders thriving across Britain. It has emerged that numerous species of non-indigenous spider, some venomous, are spreading across England at an alarming rate thanks to rising temperatures. [News Source]

Scientists view both Obama, McCain as supportive. Obama and McCain promise to seek, not censor, government science advice and to restore the White House science adviser's office. [News Source]

Back to the future. In Wyoming's Big Horn Basin, the Big Red is the most vivid marker of an exceptionally torrid time--the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Through the Big Red, scientists hope to locate clues to help them reconstruct a long vanished world--as we hurtle towards our own rendezvous with climate change. [News Source]

Climate effort could be stalled by credit crisis. Costs of curbing global-warming emissions are a tough sell in U.S., Europe amid economic disruption and financial uncertainty [News Source]

Hot year spurs call for pollution control. Delaware and New Jersey are on track for one of their hottest years on record, continuing a weather trend that two environmental groups described today as clear local evidence of a dangerously changing global climate. [News Source]

Acidifying oceans. As carbon dioxide rises in the atmosphere, the ocean mops up much of the excess. Over the past two centuries, scientists estimate that its vast blue waters have absorbed something like 40 percent of the carbon dioxide we've thus far emitted. [News Source]

Scientists to probe Antarctica for sea rise clues. Scientists will visit a vulnerable part of an Antarctic ice shelf this year to work out if it will crack off in coming decades and perhaps trigger a rise in sea levels, they said Thursday. [News Source]

Climate change and hunting. Rising seas, drought, famine, mass extinctions--the environmental and economic disasters that a consensus of scientists has predicted to occur by the end of the century as a result of climate change are well known. [News Source]

Greenpeace: Climate change threatens China’s food safety. China is likely to face inadequate food supply by 2030 if the current climate change trend continues, warns a new Greenpeace report released Wednesday. [News Source]

Global warming threatens Australia’s iconic kangaroos. A new study has found that an increase in average temperature of only two degrees Celsius could have a devastating effect on populations of Australias iconic kangaroos. [News Source]

Climate change and hunting. The devastation of America's wildlife in the late 1800s and the dust bowl crisis of the 1930s were "just a warm-up for the main event" that the world faces today, the director of a hunter conservation group warned, and hunters must be pro-active. [News Source]