How climate change may be threatening national parks. Warmer temperatures and extended wildfires put Joshua trees in the Joshua Tree National Park in California at risk. But that may be just one way in which climate change is affecting our national parks. [News Source]

Estate plans for dunes rejected. The City of Cape Town's environmental management unit said the planned development was at risk because of future climate change-linked storm surges, and was "irresponsible" because it was within a particularly active and dynamic coastal dune system. [News Source]

Iowa corn growers lose $259 million each year to global warming. A report released today by Environment Iowa showed that Iowa corn growers lose $259 million a year because of global warming. [News Source]

Environment Ohio says corn affected by global warming. Corn likes it cool. That's the message a group of concerned officials and representatives with Environment Ohio were delivering at a press conference Thursday morning at Paul's Farm Market on Ohio 60. [News Source]

Ohio corn affected by global warming. A new report on Ohio's corn shows that global warming could cost corn growers more than $50 million a year. [News Source]

Seals and robotic subs monitor Antarctic climate change. Elephant seals equipped with electronic tags and robotic mini submarines using sonar were just two projects during the International Polar Year that aimed to investigate the effects of global warming in polar regions. [News Source]

Disease in a warming climate. Climate change takes the blame for many dim future prospects: rising sea levels, more frequent droughts and disappearing glaciers, to name just a few. But perhaps the warming trend should be absolved of responsibility for a predicted bump in the global burden of infectious disease. [News Source]

Algae genomes key to regulating carbon emissions. Scientists have decoded genomes of two strains of green algae, highlighting genes that allow them to capture carbon emissions and maintain the oceans' chemical balance, a study said Thursday. [News Source]

Cap-and-trade bill would propel Tenaska plant. A new climate change bill in Congress hangs a price tag on pollution and would propel forward the Tenaska "clean coal" plant proposed for near Sweetwater. But the $3.5 billion Tenaska Trailblazer Energy Center isn't dependent on cap and trade, a company official said. [News Source]

Ethanol raises cost of nutrition programs. The increased use of ethanol could cost the government up to $900 million for food stamps and child nutrition programs, a congressional report says. [News Source]

China puts fizz in bid to reduce carbon emissions. Recycled soft drink bottles and cans? Nothing new about that. But one Chinese company is now recycling the emissions from a power plant that puts the fizz in soda pop. [News Source]