Mass relocation planned as seas rise. The government is preparing to relocate people living on islands considered vulnerable to rising sea levels over the next three decades. [News Source]

Military to help eroding village move. The military will help an imperiled village in Western Alaska move to higher ground. Global warming is commonly blamed for the erosion in those villages and several others that are losing land more slowly. [News Source]

Great Barrier Reef could adapt to climate change, scientists say. The prediction of a prominent marine biologist that climate change could render the Great Barrier Reef extinct within 30 years has been labelled overly pessimistic for failing to account for the adaptive capabilities of coral reefs. [News Source]

What the public doesn’t get about climate change. One of the most frightening recent studies on climate change had nothing to do with icebergs or mega-droughts. Of 212 MIT grad students queried in the study, 84% failed to answer basic questions about greenhouse gas emissions correctly. [News Source]

EU carmaking nations sign CO2 deal. Italy stood by small car makers like Fiat on Friday, refusing to join France, Germany and Britain in a deal to cut carbon dioxide emissions. [News Source]

Correction: Jason and the secret climate change war (Times Online) An article on climate change ( News Review , September 7) stated that Ronald Reagan had commissioned a report about global warming from William Nierenberg, the distinguished American scientist. [News Source]

Spring rainfall at record low levels. Senior climatologist Blair Trewin said the decline in rainfall over southern Australia was "pretty much consistent with what we would expect with climate change". [News Source]

Recent hurricane history provides diverging interpretations on future of hurricane activity. A new study has shown how differing interpretations of the observational record can imply vastly different futures for Atlantic hurricane activity due to global warming. [News Source]

Chemical released by trees can help cool planet. Trees could be more important to the Earth's climate than previously thought, according to a new study that reveals forests help to block out the sun. [News Source]

Guardians of the past uncover green lessons for the present. Stately homes and ancient barns may creak and leak, but their locally sourced, sustainable technology is praised in a report published yesterday as a model for tackling climate change. [News Source]

Lyon hosts Eurocities eco-challenge conference. A conference held in the French city of Lyon this week has been helping European cities get to grips with ecological challenges. [News Source]