Marine plant life holds the secret to preventing global warming. Life in the ocean has the potential to help to prevent global warming, a new report concludes. This capacity to absorb emissions is under threat, however: the habitats are being lost at a rate of up to 7 per cent a year, up to 15 times faster than the tropical rainforests. [News Source]

EPA releases Bush-era endangerment document. U.S. EPA released a document on global warming today showing the Bush administration had concluded in December 2007 that greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles were endangering public welfare and needed to be regulated under the Clean Air Act. [News Source]

Record drought takes its toll on Arizona. Much of the US south-west has been in a drought since 1999, the most severe in more than a century, but it has been exacerbated by record warming. [News Source]

In New Orleans, uneven recovery awaits Obama. President Obama travels to New Orleans this week for a town hall meeting — and for a look at the recovery in the city battered by Hurricane Katrina four years ago. [News Source]

Manitoba puts $10M into new trust fund for UNESCO world heritage bid. In one of his last acts as Manitoba premier, Gary Doer is committing $10 million to pay for the province's bid for a UNESCO world heritage site. The designation would turn Manitoba's eastern boreal forest into an internationally protected area. [News Source]

Marine plant life holds the secret to preventing global warming. Life in the ocean has the potential to help to prevent global warming, a new report concludes. This capacity to absorb emissions is under threat, however: the habitats are being lost at a rate of up to 7 per cent a year, up to 15 times faster than the tropical rainforests. [News Source]

Climate change may mean slower winds. This summer scientists published the first study that comprehensively explored the effect of climate change on wind speeds in the U.S. Three decades’ worth of data seemed to point to a future where global warming lowers wind speeds enough to handicap the nascent wind industry. [News Source]

Record drought takes its toll on Arizona. Much of the US south-west has been in a drought since 1999, the most severe in more than a century, but it has been exacerbated by record warming. [News Source]

Sierra Club defends limits on mining. Limits on mountaintop removal coal mining won't end affordable electricity and could in the long run help improve the economy of the Appalachian coalfields, according to a new report released Tuesday by the Sierra Club. [News Source]

EPA releases Bush-era endangerment document. U.S. EPA released a document on global warming today showing the Bush administration had concluded in December 2007 that greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles were endangering public welfare and needed to be regulated under the Clean Air Act. [News Source]

Church: Climate crisis a chance to become human again. People should use the climate change crisis as an opportunity to become human again, setting aside the addictive and self-destructive behaviour that has damaged their souls, the Archbishop of Canterbury said today. [News Source]