Climate change measures crucial for Asia-Pacific: UN. UN experts warned Tuesday that Asia-Pacific nations and other developing countries need support to combat climate change as they face an intensification of extreme weather such as the Philippine floods. [News Source]

Climate change means more hungry children, greater investment in farming needed. Scientists fear climate change will mean 25 million more hungry children over the next four decades, with subsistence farmers in Africa and Asia particularly hard hit by global warming, according to a report issued Wednesday. [News Source]

City readies for climate change. The city’s response to climate change needs a paradigm shift in approach – from preparing to fight it to learning to live with it, experts agreed at a conference yesterday. [News Source]

Climate change has global impact. There's much to be learned from studying climate change in the Arctic. That message came out loud and clear at a Tuesday conference at Wingspread, "Climate Change in the Arctic: Global Implications." [News Source]

Canada asked to join nations in pumping greenhouse gases underground. Canada is being courted to form a group of countries that will commit to permanently storing greenhouse gas emissions underground on a large-scale by 2020, pushing an expensive but promising technology into the vanguard of the global warming fight. [News Source]

Carbon capture and storage technology can help solve climate change. Carbon capture and storage technology can play a major role in solving the problem of man-made climate change, but not without significant government support, according to scientists at an international workshop on CCS in Regina Tuesday. [News Source]

Rooftop gardens key to off-setting carbon. Replacing traditional roofs with gardens could help fight climate change, by acting as a carbon sink and cooling cities, say U.S. scientists. [News Source]

Chinese dam may be a methane menace. Marshland created when China's Three Gorges Reservoir is partially drained during the summer may be a significant source of the powerful greenhouse gas methane, researchers say. [News Source]

Groups challenge WA coal plant’s permit renewal. It's another round in the fight for cleaner air in Washington. [News Source]

Companies desert the climate deniosphere. Increasingly, companies are leaving trade associations that have taken positions at odds with what science is telling us about human-induced global warming — that it’s real and that we’d better address it sooner rather than later. [News Source]

Poorer states need ‘billions’ for global warning: World Bank. Developing countries will need up to 100 billion dollars (80 billion euros) a year for 40 years to combat the effects of global warming, said a World Bank report released in The Hague on Tuesday. [News Source]