Conservation group sues to protect walrus. A conservation group went to court Wednesday to force the federal government to consider adding Pacific walrus to the list of threatened species. [News Source]

Whales and dolphins stranded in noisy seas. The songs that whales and dolphins use to communicate, orient themselves and find mates are being drowned out by human-made noises in the world's oceans, U.N. officials and environmental groups said Wednesday. [News Source]

Noisy oceans ‘threaten sea life.’ Noises sea creatures use to communicate are being drowned out by noises from commercial shipping, new military sonar and climate change. At stake is the survival of whales and dolphins. [News Source]

Lekki, Bayelsa may sink. A substantial part of the highbrow area of Lagos State may go under in the next fifty years, if the predictions of experts in oceanography are anything to go by. [News Source]

Carbon trading: Environmental godsend or giant shell game? There is lively debate over whether cap-and-trade really does much to fight global warming. [News Source]

Japan set to announce emissions credit deals. Japan, the world's fifth-biggest polluter, will announce within weeks its first set of deals to buy greenhouse gas emission rights from east European nations, a senior Japanese official said, helping it offset its own emissions surpluses. [News Source]

At URI, climate expert offers solutions to global warming. For three months scientists have warned about the perils and dimensions of global climate change in special presentations at the University of Rhode Island. [News Source]

Stanford researchers investigate how plants adapt to climate. Stomata are essential for the survival of plants and, by absorbing carbon from the atmosphere, play a significant role in maintaining the health of the planet. [News Source]

Eco-problems of the 80s return to haunt us. One of the first empirical studies to look at how global warming is affecting ecosystem health has found that the wet winters of recent years have hampered the recovery of streams from damage caused by acid rain decades ago. [News Source]

North Atlantic cold-water sink returns to life. Scientists have found evidence that convective mixing in the North Atlantic, a mechanism that fuels ocean circulation and affects Earth's climate, has returned after a decade of near stagnation – thanks, perhaps, to a dramatic loss of sea-ice in the Arctic during the summer of 2007. [News Source]

‘Climate change forecasters do not know how global warming will affect the world,’ top physicist claims. Climate change forecasters should admit that they cannot predict how global warming will affect individual countries, a top physicist said today. [News Source]