Arctic sea ice reached record low this winter. Each winter the Arctic re-freezes, but the extent of Arctic sea ice refreezing in 2009 was far less than typical, as new images show. [News Source]

Ice loss sparks new climate change fears. Evidence of ice loss from both poles this week has sparked fresh fears that global warming is progressing faster than scientists had predicted. Arctic ice has thinned dramatically, as well as shrinking in area, according to US research. [News Source]

Will climate change spread disease? Mud-slinging has broken out among ecologists over a study suggesting that climate change might not spread tropical diseases far and wide after all. [News Source]

Will climate change whip up global wildfires? Climate change--and the searing temperatures it will bring--can conjure up images of expansive forest fires forcing people to flee their homes. But the first global model to rely on actual fire data shows a more nuanced picture. [News Source]

Arctic sea ice thinnest ever going into spring of 2009. Researchers say that as spring begins, more than 90 percent of the sea ice in the Arctic is only 1 or 2 years old. That makes it thinner and more vulnerable than at anytime in the past three decades, according to researchers with NASA. [News Source]

Study to research effect of climate change on denning. A new study will probe whether warmer temperatures are delaying when grizzly bears in Yellowstone National Park are retiring for the winter. [News Source]

Global warming will hit corn yields, costing US over a billion dollars annually. Corn's annual yield is more than twice that of any other American crop, but this behemoth crop is not without threats. A new analysis by Environment America, shows that lower yields of corn due to global warming will cost farmers 1.4 billion every year. [News Source]

Group calls on Congress to quell carbon. A new report from Environment America suggests that global warming could cost Indiana corn growers $98 million per year. [News Source]

How fast can carbon capture and storage fix climate change?. Most environmental groups agree that global greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced by at least 80 percent below 1990 levels by mid-century, a goal also shared by the Obama administration. But they differ on how that can be achieved. [News Source]

University of Utah professor urges expansion of U.S. parks. A University of Utah law professor urged Congress Tuesday to fight global warming's potential to melt the glaciers in Glacier National Park by expanding the park system to protect against threats coming from nearby lands. [News Source]

Activist: Claim of ‘green’ nuclear power is false. An internationally known writer and anti-nuclear activist got a warm reception from Vermont lawmakers as she heaped criticism on the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant and the atomic power industry. [News Source]