Climate change pushes coral decline (The West Australian) The world’s marine reserves may be helping to restore local fish populations, but they are failing to protect fragile coral reefs from the harsh effects of global warming, a conference has heard. Dat [News Source]

Climate change committee report due (Liverpool Echo) The committee set up to advise ministers on climate change will make recommendations on a series of emissions cuts, amid calls to further toughen UK action on global warming. [News Source]

Climate change committee report due (Evening Standard) The committee set up to advise ministers on climate change will make recommendations on a series of emissions cuts, amid calls to further toughen UK action on global warming. [News Source]

Church chimes in on climate change (Holliston Tab) State Rep. Carolyn Dykema, D-Holliston, helped the Rev. Dr. David L. Fountain ring the bell at First Congregational Church in a Saturday event sounding an alarm about global warming. [News Source]

Wong delays emissions target. Australia's delay in announcing its 2020 greenhouse target until after a UN summit is a defensive move suggesting the Government will not take a lead in post-Kyoto talks. [News Source]

UN global warming talks weighed down by financial crisis. The two-week UN climate conference in Poznan, Poland, is meant to put governments on track for a new global deal to save the climate that leaders can approve in Denmark in a year's time. [News Source]

Energizing the commonwealth. Coal - the resource that has helped power the state and fortified the backbone of the state’s economy for years - figures prominently in the energy plan released by Gov. Steve Beshear. [News Source]

UT scientist drops research that he says pollutes. Going with his conscience, an astronomy professor at the University of Texas has decided to back out of a NASA project that he spent about a decade working on because he thinks it excessively harms the environment. [News Source]

Girl Guides introduce environmental star-rating for schools. The Sri Lanka Girl Guides Association announced that a compulsory environmental star-rating would be introduced for all government and private schools in Sri Lanka with the approval of the Ministry of Education. [News Source]

Egypt’s Red Sea Resort becomes a Tourism Earth Lung. Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt’s Red Sea Resort last week became the second Earth Lung destination of the world, an initiative in which Sri Lanka is heavily involved. [News Source]

Not so Old MacDonald: Young farmers tend to the land to fulfill their dreams. Slotnick said the strong interest in local farming has been steady for a decade, propelled by younger people who don't see the job as an obscure hobby but as part of a solution to problems such as global warming. [News Source]