Premiers sound alarm on flu threat. Premiers and aboriginal leaders are urging swift and deep co-operation among all levels of government to deal with a flu threat that one leader says is careening toward Canada like a “truck coming around a corner.” [News Source]

Los Alamos lab works to quicken disease monitoring. Two out of every three diseases in humans originated in animals — witness the current swine flu pandemic — and a Los Alamos National Laboratory researcher believes that points to a need for better surveillance. [News Source]

Winds of change rock Wolfe Island. The future has arrived on Wolfe Island with a wind-turbine vengeance. And many ferry passengers will surely lament this summer that one of Ontario's more tranquil refuges has been turned into a wind-turbine theme park. [News Source]

Hot streak for solar power in Spain. After positioning Spain as the third-largest wind power producer after the U.S. and Germany, renewable energy companies are now racing for a foothold in the country's fast-growing "solar thermal" market. [News Source]

Help Pacific or face the consequences, Australia told. Australia must help its Pacific neighbours deal with climate change now or face a future stuck in the middle of constant regional conflict, the United Nations Asia-Pacific development chief has warned. [News Source]

Shut down. Pacific Greenpeace activists from Fiji, the Solomon and Cook Islands escalated calls for real action on climate change by shutting down coal loading at Australia's Hay Point Coal Terminal in Mackay at 6.30am yesterday. [News Source]

China hints at softer line in climate talks. Beijing hinted on Wednesday at room for compromise in global climate change talks, as its negotiator left open the possibility China could commit itself to reducing carbon emissions beyond 2012. [News Source]

Combet slams Fielding’s climate doubts. The federal government may have long given up any hope of convincing Family First senator Steve Fielding to support its emissions trading scheme, but now it's decided to stick the boot in. [News Source]

Kimberly-Clark joins Greenpeace to protect forests. Paper products giant Kimberly-Clark Corp joined forces with Greenpeace, pledging to conserve forests by getting wood fiber from environmentally responsible sources. Forest conservation is considered a key weapon against climate change. [News Source]

Britain must have ‘atomic ambition’ — with 40% of energy from nuclear. Former energy minister Malcolm Wicks said between 35 and 40 per cent of the UK's electricity should be generated from nuclear energy, thereby decreasing reliance on imported gas and cutting greenhouse gas emissions. [News Source]

Can National Parks be saved from global warming? The federal government must take decisive action to avoid "a potentially catastrophic loss of animal and plant life," in the National Parks, according to a new report which details the impact of global warming on the nation's parks. [News Source]