Forestry law change ‘will help’ global warming fight (The Herald) Scotland's largest landowner could soon be earning tens of millions of pounds a year from the profits of wind farms and hydro schemes on some of its 1.6 million acres of land, while making a real contribution to fighting global warming. [News Source]

Parched: Australia faces collapse as climate change kicks in. Leaves are falling off trees in the height of summer, railway tracks are buckling, and people are retiring to their beds with deep-frozen hot-water bottles, as much of Australia swelters in its worst-ever heatwave. [News Source]

Unilever blocking deforestation for palm oil. During the past two decades, an estimated two million acres have been felled annually in Borneo, which Indonesia shares with Malaysia and Brunei. With Jakarta planning to more than double the acreage of oil palm trees by 2011, activists are scrambling to form new alliances with the palm oil industry to stave off more destruction. [News Source]

Plight of the humble bee. Native British bees are dying out — and with them will go flora, fauna and one-third of our diet. We may have less than a decade to save them and avert catastrophe. So why is nothing being done? [News Source]

Many of nation’s green leaders from Bay Area. Today, Bay Area entrepreneurs, scientists and policymakers hope to join the vanguard of another revolution - one that aims to reinvent the way people use water, power their cars, build their houses and live their lives. [News Source]

The Maldives: Trouble in paradise. Rising seas are threatening to engulf the Maldives, so the president wants to buy a new homeland for his people. But is it really feasible for an entire country to relocate itself to higher land? [News Source]

A hotter, drier, smaller island. When the UN climate panel projected a top world sea level rise of 18 cm by 2100 it did not factor in the accelerating effect of warmer oceans on the polar caps. [News Source]

Fossils alter warming predictions? Fossil samples taken from the coast of New Zealand provide a 50-million-year-old weather record that may change they way scientists think about global warming predictions. [News Source]

Nineteen die as the blast of summer begins to take its toll. At least 19 people have died, power has been cut to hundreds of thousands of homes and city transport systems have been brought to their knees as a record-setting heatwave continues to bake much of southeast Australia. [News Source]

Australia scorched by heatwave set to be worst in 100 years. A record-breaking heat wave sweeping across southern Australia is being blamed for the 'sudden deaths' of at least 22 people in one city alone. [News Source]

Once-in-century Australian heatwave claims homes, lives. Australia's second-largest city Melbourne was struggling to cope Saturday with a once-in-a-century heatwave that has claimed dozens of lives and sparked wildfires that have razed up to 20 homes. [News Source]