Global warming cracks ice sheets (Calcutta News) Scientists have once again been prodded into believing global warming is progressing faster than predicted. [News Source]

What will global warming look like? Scientists point to Australia (Newsday) Drought, fires, killer heat waves, wildlife extinction and mosquito-borne illness -- the things that climate change models are predicting have already arrived there, they say. Frank Eddy pulled off his dusty boots and slid into a chair, taking his place at the dining room table where most of the critical family issues are hashed out. Spreading hands as dry and cracked as the orchards he tends, ... [News Source]

RP among most vulnerable to climate change (Philippine Daily Inquirer) Citing studies validated by the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB), Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap said Asian countries, including the Philippines, were among the most vulnerable to climate change. [News Source]

Changing rains. Civilizations whose demise has been linked to shifts in rainfall include the Old Kingdom of Egypt, the Tiwanacu of Lake Titicaca and the Maya of Central America. [News Source]

Climate change poses challenges for the Connecticut coast. Tough choices confront Connecticut, especially its shoreline, as the planet inches toward what experts say is inevitable: swelling seas and intensifying storms as the effects of climate change are felt over the coming decades. [News Source]

A revived EPA takes on climate change and more. Under President Obama, the Environmental Protection Agency is starting to flex its muscles again, calling for tougher regulations, while criticizing Bush officials for dawdling on climate change, and catering to businesses and industry. [News Source]

Eco-warrior sets sail to save oceans from ‘plastic death’. Billionaire banking heir David de Rothschild plans a remarkable journey in a plastic boat to highlight the enormous 'garbage patch' caught up in the swirling Pacific Ocean currents. [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. [News Source]

Dutch poised to protect New York from the sea. New York's sea defences need major reconstruction to bring them up to the present-day standards of those in the Netherlands. So Rotterdam City Council, the Arcadis engineering firm and Amsterdam's VU University are going to help improve matters. [News Source]

Nuclear power lesser evil than global warming. With heightened worries about climate change, nuclear power has become a dilemma for the green movement. Nuclear power plants emit no greenhouse gases while coal-fired plants pour a third of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. [News Source]

‘In the Great Ship Titanic.’ Nobel physicist Steven Chu is out to revitalize U.S. industry and save the world — if he can. "The Earth is in the great ship Titanic, and it's going to take a half century to really turn the ship. But that doesn't mean we can't start doing it today, and we must," Chu says. [News Source]