Pacific hit by dengue ‘pandemic’. A tiny harmless mosquito lands on its human prey in a small Pacific nation and begins to feast on their blood. [News Source]

Ohio average temperatures up 2 degrees. Climate change has sent the region's average temperature up 2% since 2000, according to a new report. [News Source]

Green Christmas more likely than a white Christmas. Christmas will be green, rather than white this year as changes in the climate mean that leaves are staying on the trees right into the winter. [News Source]

Our average temperature up 2 degress. Climate change has sent the region's average temperature up 2° since 2000, according to a new report. [News Source]

Impact of climate change on food source in Pacific unknown. The exact magnitude and nature of climate change impacts on food sources in Pacific island countries were relatively unknown, according to a report on climate change and food security in the Pacific. [News Source]

Report: Valley getting warmer. A new report on global warming says the Lehigh Valley is getting hotter. And the region isn't alone. [News Source]

Can cold showers and coral gardening save the reefs? The planet's coral reefs face a barrage of threats: burial by sediment eroding from deforested lands, strangulation by algae thriving on fertiliser runoff, overfishing of species vital for reef health, damage by anchors, toxic pollution - the list goes on and on. [News Source]

Study shows Reno significantly warmer in 2007. Reno's average temperature from 1971 to 2000 was 51.3 degrees and in 2007 was 55.3 degrees, a 4-degree increase over the historical average, and the second-highest increase of 255 U.S. cities included in the sample. [News Source]

Voluntary carbon offsetting not yet crisis victim. Battling climate change is so important to the image of many companies, and so cheap, that carbon offsetting is unlikely to be an early casualty of the financial crisis, delegates at a London conference said. [News Source]

Army of loft insulators to cut gas bills and tackle climate change. An army of loft insulators and draught-proofers is to be released on to the streets of Britain as Gordon Brown combines his fight against climate change with the need to provide jobs in an economic downturn. [News Source]

Unveiled: The solar-powered rickshaws that need less pedal power. A new solar-powered rickshaw could revolutionise journeys around busy cities. A fully-charged solar battery is designed to power the soleckshaw for a day's work and can be replaced at centralised solar-power charging stations. [News Source]