Nepal’s Himalayan glaciers at risk due to global warming. The rise in global temperatures and climate change caused by greenhouse gases are posing risks for Nepal's Himalayan glaciers and glacial lakes, official media reported Wednesday. [News Source]

Australia beaches could be destroyed by gathering storm. The white sand beaches of Australia's east coast are under threat from "unprecedented erosion" that could transform the country's shoreline forever, scientists have warned. [News Source]

Terminal diagnosis for ocean creatures. Rising acid levels in the Southern Ocean will start destroying sea life within 30 years, three decades earlier than previously thought, Australian climate change researchers warned yesterday. [News Source]

Expect heat, intense storms and more drought, say KU scientists in climate change report. Higher temperatures, more intense storms and increased drought will plague Kansas this century because of rising carbon dioxide emissions, according to a study by Kansas University scientists. [News Source]

Storm historians forecast future. Coastal dwellers may soon face even more catastrophic storms, due to the combined effects of climate change and long-term oscillations in Australia's weather, says environmental planner Peter Helman from Griffith University's Centre for Coastal Management. [News Source]

Coast must prepare for climate change. Coastal councils have to rethink their approach to prepare for inevitable extreme weather events or suffer the consequences. [News Source]

2008 set to be about 10th warmest year. This year is on track to be about the 10th warmest globally since records began in 1850 but gaps in Arctic data mean the world may be slightly underestimating global warming, a leading scientist said on Tuesday. [News Source]

Maldives sinking? Searches for a new home. Fears of global warming are haunting the Maldives with its new president indicating that the island country will not shy away from buying 'land somewhere' that could act as an 'insurance' against global warming. [News Source]

Faced with rising sea levels, the Maldives seek new homeland. Mohamed Nasheed, who was sworn in Tuesday as the Maldives’ first democratically elected president, says that rising sea levels threaten to inundate the tiny Indian Ocean island nation. [News Source]

Still a long way to go in travel debate. Locavores may be doing more harm than good to the environment. Transport is such a minor part of food's environmental impact that British consumers are better off buying New Zealand dairy products. [News Source]

Farmers should be paid to protect ‘carbon banks’, says National Trust. Hill farmers should be given financial incentives to conserve peatlands, Britain's biggest carbon store, the National Trust said today. [News Source]