Ban: Economic Summit Should Tackle Global Warming (Scoop.co.nz) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for this weekend’s Washington summit on the global financial crisis to seize the opportunity to tackle global warming as well, stressing that such action would create jobs and boost the world’s economies. [News Source]

Ban: Economic Summit Should Tackle Global Warming (Scoop.co.nz) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for this weekend’s Washington summit on the global financial crisis to seize the opportunity to tackle global warming as well, stressing that such action would create jobs and boost the world’s economies. [News Source]

The ocean’s acid test. The world’s oceans – for so long a neat and invisible sink for humanity’s carbon dioxide emissions – are about to extract a price for all that waste. [News Source]

Local climate solutions constrain federal options. Frustrated for eight years by federal inaction, many states have passed boldly ambitious laws to stem climate change. A new Congress and president will be pressed not to undercut those goals. [News Source]

What will it take for D.C. to wake up to global warming? At a time when the phony debate over the science of global warming finally seems done—and with many scientists asserting that dramatic action is needed, now—why hasn't Washington done better? [News Source]

Satellites map cholera outbreaks. Researchers have developed a system for predicting cholera outbreaks using satellite monitoring of marine environments. They show cholera outbreaks follow seasonal increases in sea temperature. [News Source]

Himalayan glaciers may disappear by 2035. The glaciers in the Himalayas are receding faster than in any other part of the world and, if the present rate continues, a large number of them may disappear by 2035 because of climate change, warn Indian and foreign environmentalists and geologists. [News Source]

Dormice forced to take bird food because of climate change. The species are thought to be remaining active longer because of warmer weather or in order to get enough food as habitats shrink and competition increases. [News Source]

Maldives saving to buy new homeland in face of climate change. The Maldives' newly-elected president has said that his government will begin saving to buy a new homeland in case global warming causes the country to disappear into the sea. [News Source]

Maldives considers buying dry land if seas rise. The president-elect of the Maldives, a nation of 1,200 low islands in the Indian Ocean, plans to establish an investment fund so it can buy a haven for its citizens should global warming raise sea levels at a dangerous pace. [News Source]

Climate change drives Maldives to buy land. The Indian Ocean state of the Maldives will start to divert cash from its largest industry, tourism, to buy land in case rising sea levels submerge the country’s low-lying coral islands, spokespeople for the president-elect, Mohamed Nasheed, said on Monday. [News Source]