New federal climate change agency forming (AP via Yahoo! Finance) The Obama administration on Monday proposed a new agency to study and report on the changing climate. Also known as global warming, climate change has drawn widespread concern in recent years as temperatures around the world rise, threatening to harm crops, spread disease, increase sea levels, change storm and drought patterns and cause polar melting... [News Source]

NOAA reorganization would provide more info on global warming (Washington Post) The Obama administration proposed a new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Service on Monday, reorganizing the agency so it can provide Americans with predictions on how global warming will affect everything from drought to sea levels. [News Source]

NOAA reorganization would provide more info on global warming (Washington Post) The Obama administration proposed a new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Service on Monday, reorganizing the agency so it can provide Americans with predictions on how global warming will affect everything from drought to sea levels. [News Source]

New federal climate change agency forming (AP via Yahoo! Finance) The Obama administration is proposing a new agency to study and report on the changing climate. Also known as global warming, climate change has drawn widespread concern in recent years as temperatures around the world rise, threatening to harm crops, spread disease, increase sea levels, change storm and drought patterns and cause polar melting. [News Source]

Obama-backed wind farm in Mass. meets strong resistance. The nearly decade-long fight over whether to construct a 130-turbine offshore wind farm near Martha's Vineyard has spurred numerous state and federal regulatory reviews. [News Source]

Rajendra Pachauri raises more eyebrows. The Indian head of the UN climate change panel, already under fire over errors in a key 2007 report, is raising eyebrows again after publishing a raunchy environmental novel and accepting help in promoting it from BP and the head of India’s biggest gas producer. [News Source]

Water at core of climate change impacts-UN experts. The main impact of climate change will be on water supplies, experts said on Sunday. Desertification, flash floods, melting glaciers, heatwaves, cyclones or water-borne diseases such as cholera are among global warming impacts inextricably tied to water. [News Source]

Seaweed beds, the ‘cradle of the sea,’ vanishing. The rich seaweed beds stretching 8,000 hectares and brimming with fish in the western coast of the bay off Shizuoka Prefecture have been transformed into a barren wasteland. Pollution, climate change, and other factors are suspects, but the exact causes are unknown. [News Source]

Unplugged: Goodbye cables, hello energy beams. Wouldn't life be simpler if power was invisibly beamed to your devices whenever you walked into a building with an electricity supply? A handful of companies are having a go at making it work. The technology is likely to meet some health and environmental objections along the way, however. [News Source]

Smarter farming key to saving Amazon rainforest. It's a simple system, long practiced in the U.S., of rotating crops instead of simply chopping down forest. But here in the state of Mato Grosso ("thick forest"), where ranchers and farmers have destroyed more of the Amazon than anywhere else, it's a relatively new idea. [News Source]

Conservationist: Colorado sees climate change effects. The head of one of the country's largest conservation groups is warning that Colorado is in the "bull's eye of climate change" and says the state's hunters and anglers are seeing firsthand the effects of warmer temperatures. [News Source]