Debris from Hurricane Ike fills Galveston Bay. The Texas General Land Office has pinpointed nearly 600 large pieces of underwater debris after surveying about one-fifth of the bay. Texas has set aside $39 million for the cleanup, the largest of its kind in the state’s history [News Source]

Cleveland-area nighttime temperatures indicate warming trend. Is global warming sneaking into Ohio under cover of darkness? That's what atmospheric scientists like Jeffrey Rogers want to know because nights have been slowly getting warmer here for more than a half-century. [News Source]

Art under threat from climate change: U.N. experts. Art treasures in tropical nations are under threat from climate change, which is likely to speed decay, United Nations experts said on Sunday. [News Source]

Climate change most affecting the mountains. The swift meltdown of the glaciers in Montana's Glacier National Park has led scientists to a surprising realization: Mountains are more susceptible to global warming than the lowlands around them. [News Source]

Kiribati Islanders seek land to buy as rising seas threaten. Kiribati, a Pacific island-nation in danger of being submerged because of global warming, may purchase land elsewhere to relocate its people, President Anote Tong said. [News Source]

Academic calls for urgent action to save Barrier Reef. A University of Queensland professor says Australia is a step closer to protecting the Great Barrier Reef, but more needs to be done to address climate change. Ove Hoegh-Guldberg says carbon emissions need to be drastically reduced to save the Great Barrier Reef. [News Source]

Analysis: Australia’s split weather system. It’s been called the Big Dry and the Big Wet – Australia’s weather is split between floods in subtropical Queensland, while southeast Australia and Tasmania suffer heat and drought that have stoked up an inferno. [News Source]

It will only get worse as climate changes. Australia faces "a very dangerous decade or decades" as climate change increases the intensity of fires and lengthens the bushfire season, scientists and environmentalists warn. [News Source]

Aged in danger as mercury soars. For the first time in 70 years, the mercury climbed well above 40C in Adelaide for six days in a row. This is consistent with some of the worst-case scenarios forecast for the eventual impact of climate change on the southern half of the continent. [News Source]

Bushfires and global warming: Is there a link? Scientists have a hunch rising temperatures due to human activity are making fire and flood more likely. [News Source]

Schools to monitor ‘green wave’ of spring. School children around Ireland have been asked to embark on a project to monitor the path of spring as it washes over Ireland like a 'green wave'. [News Source]