Document is critical of E.P.A. on Clean Air. The internal government memorandum challenged the scientific and economic basis of a proposed finding that climate-altering gases are a threat to human health and welfare. [News Source]

Climate change threatens millions on Asian coasts. Around 100 million people risk losing homes and livelihoods unless drastic steps are taken to protect Southeast Asia's biologically diverse coral reefs, which could be wiped out in coming decades because of climate change, a report said Wednesday. [News Source]

Climate change may drive refugees to Australia. An Australian scientist warns climate change may drive a wave of economic refugees from south-east Asia and the Pacific to Australia. [News Source]

Legarda: Climate change an imminent danger. The casualties and devastations caused by recent typhoons in Luzon showed that “climate change is an imminent and present danger,” Sen. Loren Legarda said here on Monday. [News Source]

Climate change affecting development. The environment state minister has warned that climate change is affecting development, and she noted that malaria and water-borne diseases were thriving because of the changing climate resulting from environmental destruction. [News Source]

Scientists warn on ocean acidification. Bluff's oyster fisheries in Foveaux Strait may be at the top of a hit list of species vulnerable to increasing acidity levels in the oceans, New Zealand scientists say. [News Source]

Report warns against Coral Triangle collapse. Experts have warned that the richly diverse coral reefs of the Coral Triangle around southeast Asia will disappear by the end of the century if action is not taken against climate change. [News Source]

Climate change endangers coral Triangle: WWF. Climate change could wipe out an ocean wilderness said to be the world's most diverse by the end of the century if nations do not drastically cut emissions, the environmental group WWF said. [News Source]

Key coral reefs ‘could disappear’. The world's most important coral region is in danger of being wiped out by the end of this century unless fast action is taken, says a new report. [News Source]

Coral Triangle at risk from climate change - WWF. Southeast Asia's biologically diverse coral reefs will disappear by the end of this century, wiping out coastal economies and sparking civil unrest if climate change isn't addressed, conservation group WWF said on Wednesday. [News Source]

Australia ‘must act on climate to north.’ Tens of millions of people in the Coral Triangle region to Australia's north will lose their livelihoods, sparking a vast humanitarian disaster, if the world fails to take effective action on climate change, a new study says. [News Source]