New planning laws will include duty to combat climate change. All new major infrastructure projects in England and Wales will have to be prepared for hotter summers, floods and other changes in the weather caused by climate change under new planning laws. [News Source]

Case of the absent lemmings. Changing weather patterns, producing the wrong kind of snow, have transformed the population dynamics of lemmings in northern Scandinavia. The knock-on effects have been felt throughout the ecosystem. [News Source]

Ice climbers feel the heat of climate change. Don Serl has been climbing long enough to be certain of two things: that climate change is a reality, and it's having an effect on the ice. [News Source]

The damage has already been done. Mozambican scientist Filipe Lucio, the senior scientific officer for the World Meteorological Organisation's disaster risk reduction programme, said Africa is committed to dramatic climate change for generations, until at least 2090. [News Source]

Build Arctic site now, panel urges Harper. With Prime Minister Stephen Harper's northern research station still years away from reality, an international panel says it is time to "start now" to build knowledge about the fast-changing Arctic. [News Source]

Climate change stifling lemmings. Packs of Norway lemmings aren’t necessarily headed off a cliff, but climate change in a part of that country certainly seems to have stifled population spikes of the oft-prolific creature in recent decades. [News Source]

Climate pushing lemmings to cliff. Climate change is bringing wetter winters to southern Norway, a bleak prospect for the region's lemmings. Scientists think the snow is not stable enough to provide winter shelter. [News Source]

Global warming threatens lemmings in Norway. Climate change may be responsible for shrinking lemming populations in Norway, a new study shows. [News Source]

Climate change pushing lemmings over the edge. Once famous for their numbers, Norwegian lemmings are disappearing, say scientists, who point an accusing finger at global warming. [News Source]

Climate may force pandas to move. Climate change could force pandas to move to different parts of China as patterns of bamboo growth shift in the future, it has been claimed. [News Source]

Proof of climate change in Sabah. There are distinct, measurable signs and actual events of global warming in Malaysia and Sabah, according to Prof. Dr Felix Tongkul, Centre for Natural Disaster Studies, Universiti Malaysia Sabah. [News Source]