If you think Treasure Coast summers are getting longer, you’re right. If you think it’s because of global warming, you’re wrong: It's really "local warming," thanks to a so-called heat-island effect, according to a professor emeritus in Florida State University’s geography department. [News Source]

Endangered sites see boom in ‘tourism of doom.’ The term was coined by sector specialists for the growing number of travelers flocking to far-flung corners of the planet to see endangered natural wonders before they disappear. [News Source]

Obama’s climate change initiative ‘best hope’ for salmon. U.S. President Barack Obama's commitment to addressing climate change is the best hope for the future of the Pacific salmon, former Canadian fisheries minister David Anderson told an international conference Tuesday. [News Source]

California farms, vineyards in peril from warming, U.S. energy secretary warns. California's farms and vineyards could vanish by the end of the century, and its major cities could be in jeopardy, if Americans do not act to slow global warming, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu said Tuesday. [News Source]

African ‘failed states’ warning. Half of Africa’s nations could become failed or failing states in the next decade if their governments did not address the global financial crisis and climate change, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said yesterday. [News Source]

Energy Secretary Steven Chu issues dire warning on global warming. The Upper Midwest and West could face water shortages and California's major cities could be in jeopardy if Americans do not act to slow the advance of global warming, Energy Secretary and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu said Tuesday. [News Source]

Weather watchers issue heatwave warning. Weather watchers warn Australians will have to get used to more heatwaves after the record-setting temperatures that have scorched the country's southeast so far this year. [News Source]

Get set to fry - more heatwaves coming. Australians will have to get used to more heatwaves after the record-setting temperatures that have scorched the country's southeast so far this year, weather watchers warn. [News Source]

Changing the way the world uses energy. A Senate committee has laid out sweeping principles it will use to craft global warming legislation. There are questions whether this is the right conceptual framework for addressing climate change. One academic argues a different approach. [News Source]

Brewer learns lesson about green marketing. As businesses recalibrate their environmental impact, breweries, of all places, seem to be struggling to outdo one another with efforts to turn amber ales green. [News Source]

Teens encourage parents not to idle cars. A cadre of concerned students gathered outside Belmont High School Monday afternoon to ask parents and guardians not to idle their cars while waiting for their children, and to thank those who turned off their vehicles. [News Source]