Climate change to bring more whale beachings (SpaceDaily) SYDNEY, April 2 (AFP) Apr 02, 2009 Experts studying the mass beaching of whales along Australia's coast have warned that such tragedies could become more frequent as global warming brings the mammals' food stocks closer to shore. [News Source]

Obama climate plan hits Senate bump The Senate is making it tougher to pass the cap-and-trade legislation President Barack Obama wants as part of an effort to reduce global warming. [News Source]

Chilean-British chamber of commerce combats climate change - Chile (Business News Americas) The Chilean-British chamber of commerce has created a climate change committee to combat global warming in an integrated fashion, committee president Arturo Errázuriz told BNamericas. [News Source]

Senate makes it harder to pass global warming bill (AP via Yahoo! News) The Senate is making it tougher to pass the cap-and-trade legislation President Barack Obama wants as part of an effort to reduce global warming. [News Source]

Plant growth gene may shape global warming (Moldova.org) British scientists say they have made a discovery about plant growth that might have an enormous impact on crop production as global warming increases.Researchers at the universities of Leicester and Oxford say they've identified a gene that's responsible for controlling plant growth in elevated temperatures.Dr. Kerry Franklin of the University of Leicester Department of Biology led the study ... [News Source]

Plant growth gene may shape global warming (UPI) LEICESTER, England, April 1 (UPI) -- British scientists say they have made a discovery about plant growth that might have an enormous impact on crop production as global warming increases. [News Source]

Oil sands development: A health risk worth taking? Canada’s vast oil sands deposits are lauded as a secure source of imported oil for the United States. At the same time, however, oil sands present troubling questions in terms of the environmental health effects associated with their development. [News Source]

Democrats unveil climate bill. The debate on global warming and energy policy accelerated on Tuesday as two senior House Democrats unveiled a far-reaching bill to cap heat-trapping gases and quicken the country’s move away from dependence on coal and oil. [News Source]

Is wasting energy uncivilized? It's Energy Wasting Day: Turn up the thermostat, leave the lights on and be profligate and self-centered about energy consumption. That's the message from one advertisement from The Climate Group. [News Source]

Calif. standard could lead way on fuel economy. Future federal fuel-economy standards would have to match the global-warming gas reductions of California's controversial limits on cars and trucks under a draft energy and climate-change bill unveiled Monday by House Democrats. [News Source]

Great chance for the planet, says Nicholas Stern. Sir Nicholas said it would be a tragic waste of an opportunity if this week's G20 summit did not agree to devote a large portion of each government's recession-fighting spending to climate change. [News Source]