New battle expected after Gov. Sebelius vetoes coal-burning power plant bill. It’s a showdown over coal-burning power plants again. On Monday, as expected, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius vetoed legislation that would allow construction of the two 700-megawatt plants in southwest Kansas. [News Source]

Rise in multiple allergy sufferers. Specialist UK clinics have told the BBC they are seeing a significant rise in the number of patients suffering from several allergies at once. [News Source]

For Alaska’s Inupiat, climate change and culture shock. For the Inupiat people of northern Alaska, whales are a way of life. Now, however, climate change is pushing the whales further north, making it harder for the Inupiat to catch them. That environmental shift is threatening the culture's fundamental roots. [News Source]

Piñon pines in danger, Biosphere study shows. Piñon pine trees, a foundation of ecosystems in the Southwest, will die faster and in greater numbers as rising temperatures from global warming intensify the effects of even short droughts. [News Source]

Driller thriller: Antarctica’s tumultuous past revealed. We know that Antarctica froze 35 million years ago. We do not know whether its ice sheets have stayed frozen or melted and reformed many times since then. It is an urgent question to help us predict how Antarctica's ice will react as temperatures rise. [News Source]

Creatures in acidic waters offer glimpse into oceans’ future. Liquid carbon dioxide bubbling out of an undersea volcano makes the surrounding water so acidic that few creatures can live in it. But the animals that do survive are remarkable, reports biologist Verena Tunnicliffe. [News Source]

Add erosion to Alaska’s climate woes. Adding to the woes of polar ice-melt and shrinking glaciers, erosion rates have doubled along a stretch of the northern Alaska coast in the last 50 years, according to recent research. [News Source]

The dire fate of forests in a warmer world. A new University of Arizona study indicates that hotter temperatures associated with unchecked global warming will make trees significantly more vulnerable to drought than they are today. [News Source]

Drought-stricken pines may die five times faster as temps rise. A slight increase in temperature could see drought-stricken trees die five times faster than they do now, a University of Arizona researcher says. [News Source]

Study shows climate change could kill Nevada state tree. Widespread deaths of Nevada's state tree and many others could occur when future droughts combine with a warming climate, a study released Monday suggested. [News Source]

Trees in trouble: massive die-offs predicted with global warming. An experimental study of pinon pines at Biosphere 2 in Arizona shows that an increase in temperature makes the species more susceptible to die-off during drought. [News Source]