Uganda: Climate change to hit poor nations hardest - experts. Poor countries like Uganda are likely to be hit hardest by climate change, experts have said. [News Source]

OSU prof cites gravity factor in Antarctic ice melt. Oregon will likely be one of the hardest hit areas as sea levels rise from melting glaciers caused by global warming, warns OSU Geosciences professor Peter Clark. Coastal communities now at sea level could be submerged, and even Portland could be affected, he said. [News Source]

Climate history ‘helps conserve’. Understanding a region's climatic history can help locate areas rich in species, scientists say. [News Source]

Council moves to bar commercial fishing in Arctic waters. In a move aimed at limiting harm to Arctic waters opened by global warming, a federal advisory board voted Thursday to ban commercial fishing north of the Bering Strait off Alaska's coast. [News Source]

Plight of polar bears captured in Arctic images. In his new book The Last Polar Bear wildlife photographer Steven John Kazlowski captures the growing plight of the creatures in their natural habitat. Kazlowski is touring the United States to raise awareness of the threat of global warming to polar bears. [News Source]

Carbon price falls to new low. The price of carbon has hit new lows as power generators and industrial companies continue to cash in credits under the emissions trading scheme to bolster their balance sheets. [News Source]

National Trust to insulate every castle in the country. Every mansion, light house, castle and farm in public ownership will be fully insulated by the National Trust in the next five years in a drive to make the nation's heritage more environmentally friendly. [News Source]

Emissions trading ‘won’t hurt inflation’. The Reserve Bank of Australia is confident the government's scheme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will not cause inflation to overheat and force it to raise interest rates. [News Source]

Angry salad? Sea lettuce combats global warming. Wiscasset High School senior Jared Snell is studying the rate at which sea lettuce can biologically gobble up carbon dioxide. He wants to design an organic system that limits the carbon dioxide emissions of polluting factories. [News Source]

Six-star energy rating proposed for homes. New homes across the country may be required to have a "six-star" energy efficiency rating within two years. [News Source]

The solution is under desert sands. At four sites across Abu Dhabi, the Government has come up with a simple solution to global warming: continue to burn fossil fuels and bury the emissions underground. [News Source]