300,000 deaths annually due to climate change (The Star) WINDHOEK : Climate change accounts for over 300,000 deaths throughout the world each year and by 2030, the annual death toll from climate change will reach half a million people a year, reports Namibia Press Agency (NAMPA). [News Source]

UN to study security threat of climate change (The Star) UNITED NATIONS (AP): With glaciers melting and oceans rising, the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday expressed deep concern at the adverse impact of climate change and urged U.N. bodies to consider the possible security implications for all countries. [News Source]

UN to study security threat of climate change (GMA News) UNITED NATIONS - With glaciers melting and oceans rising, the UN General Assembly on Wednesday expressed deep concern at the adverse impact of climate change and urged U.N. bodies to consider the possible security implications for all countries. [News Source]

Climate Change Marketing (Advertising and Marketing Review) Advertising is always a product of its time, and we live in interesting times. It appears that we will be the first generation in the history of modern advertising to have to integrate climate change into our marketing and advertising strategies. [News Source]

Global Warming Conference offers education, energy saving ideas (Santa Paula Times) More than 70 people with an eye on the environment and concerns for what global warming is doing to Earth attended a conference Saturday to become educated on the issue and find out what they can be done locally to help globally. [News Source]

Agriculture Holds Key to Solving Global Warming (Environmental News Network) Agriculture, so often cited as a factor in global decline - for claiming natural grasslands that store carbon, soil erosion and pesticide runoff - could become a big part of the solution to global warming, according to a hopeful report by Worldwatch Institute released today. [News Source]

Fossil Teeth Suggest Animals Adapted to Climate Change (Wired News) By analyzing the chemical composition of fossil animal teeth, scientists discover that some species changed their diets in response to changing climate in order to survive. Though future climate change may be too fast for many species to adapt this way, the research suggests more flexibility is possible than previously believed. [News Source]

A&M study: Global warming worsens flooding (Galveston County Daily News) GALVESTON A study suggests climate change will increase hurricane-related flooding and storm damage on the Texas Coast. [News Source]

Tokyo turns dump into forest-island. Gazing down from a helicopter at a huge garbage dump in the middle of Tokyo Bay, architect Tadao Ando had an idea that became part of the city's Olympic dream -- to create a vast new "Sea Forest" and send a strong environmental message to boost efforts to counter global warming. [News Source]

Soviet legacy seen worsening climate change impact. A legacy of environmental neglect by the Soviet Union makes countries from Poland to Central Asia more vulnerable to climate change than previously expected, the World Bank said on Tuesday. [News Source]

Climate change threatens African farmland: study. Climate change could cost the African continent more farmland than the United States uses to plant its eight major field crops combined, according to a study published in the June issue of Environmental Science and Policy. [News Source]