U. prof urges lands protection against climate change (Deseret Morning News) A University of Utah law professor urged Congress Tuesday to fight global warming's potential to melt the glaciers in Glacier National Park or wither the Joshua trees in Joshua Tree National Park by expanding the park system or giving its units more legal power to protect against threats coming from nearby lands. [News Source]

Eagle’s Eye: Need to mitigate climate change now (Central Chronicle) The climate change has already begin to impact the availability of water, food and shelter. An insecure water future can trigger outbreaks of cholera, diarrhea,, dengue and chicken guniya- Sunita Vakil Action on a war footing is the need of the hour as our collective future depends upon it. [News Source]

Eagle’s Eye: Need to mitigate climate change now (Central Chronicle) The climate change has already begin to impact the availability of water, food and shelter. An insecure water future can trigger outbreaks of cholera, diarrhea,, dengue and chicken guniya- Sunita Vakil Action on a war footing is the need of the hour as our collective future depends upon it. [News Source]

Murray River water at lowest levels. The amount of water flowing into the stricken Murray River between January and March was the lowest for that quarter in the 117 years that records have been kept. [News Source]

Oil companies loath to follow Obama’s green lead. The Obama administration wants to reduce oil consumption, increase renewable energy, and cut carbon dioxide emissions in the most ambitious transformation of energy policy in a generation. But the world’s oil giants are not convinced that it will work. [News Source]

Secretive U.N. board awards lucrative credits with few rules barring conflicts. Closed-door workings of the United Nations' greenhouse gas offset trading program suggests that its secrecy could be covering serious conflicts of interest by board members, according to an insider's account. [News Source]

Ugandan farmers bear the burden of climate change. At 37, Isreal Wasswa was a well-off coffee farmer with 12 acres in Mukono District. Now, at 53, Mr Wasswa’s land can barely support him and his 12 children. In the new era of climate change, he can barely eke a living out of his coffee trees. [News Source]

Delegation questioning wildlife die-off at Joshua Tree Nat’l Park. More of the iconic Joshua trees are dying off than ever before, many of which litter the national park. One theory: climate change is causing more fires the Joshua trees can't recover from. Air pollution from Los Angeles may be another cause. [News Source]

EU: Earth warming faster. Global warming is likely to overshoot a 2 degrees Celsius rise seen by the European Union and many developing nations as a trigger for "dangerous" change, a Reuters poll of scientists showed on Tuesday. [News Source]

Marin, North Bay get $25 million federal boost for recycled water. Marin will see more recycled water in the coming years thanks to a $25 million federal grant to help green business landscapes, schools, parks and cemeteries without dipping into reservoirs. [News Source]

Good questions about energy plan. Premier Dalton McGuinty's Liberal government is right to try to make Ontario a greener province. [News Source]