Trends in Global News Coverage Trends of Climate Change or Global Warming These figures show newspaper coverage of climate change or global warming in 50 newspapers across 20 countries and 6 continents. The charts were prepared by Max Boykoff at the University of Colorado and Maria Mansfield at Oxford University. [News Source]

Rising seas threaten the island nation of Palau The Island nation of Palau is dealing with dramatic changes in their environment and some have pointed the blame at global warming and climate change. [News Source]

Peter Bromhead: Anthropogenic global warming issues On yet another dreary commuting foray to North America, I had the opportunity to converse at length with an eminent climate scientist over anthropogenic global warming issues.My flight companion was part of an international climate... [News Source]

Peter Bromhead: Anthropogenic global warming issues On yet another dreary commuting foray to North America, I had the opportunity to converse at length with an eminent climate scientist over anthropogenic global warming issues.My flight companion was part of an international climate... [News Source]

Pressure builds on pipeline decision. It’s going to cost 13 billion dollars to build a system of pipelines to carry oil from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast of Texas. The Canadian crude is thick and gooey but it could help reduce U.S. reliance on Middle Eastern oil. Yet critics contend the cross-country pipeline could wreak environmental havoc. [News Source]

Rising seas threaten Georgia’s economically vital salt marshes. Like the tides on which these estuaries depend, Georgia's 100-mile coastline has waxed and waned for thousands of years, surviving by shifting miles in the process. And it's doing so once more; again driven by warming oceans and melting glaciers. [News Source]

Two degrees of separation. Climatologists fear global 
temperatures may be reaching 
a dangerous tipping point. 
Can humanity handle the heat? [News Source]

Twilight of the glaciers. I was in northwest Montana most of all to experience the namesake glaciers, which, I had recently learned, might be around for only another decade or so. Given that a century and a half ago there were 150 and now there are 25, the trip makes me an enlistee in the practice known by a somewhat prickly term: last-chance tourism. [News Source]

Water crisis offers chance for unity over strife. As record-breaking temperature highs and rapidly melting ice caps fuel fears about impending "water wars," some experts in Washington say that the threat of full-blown conflict is exaggerated, adding that robust institutions and solid treaties could transform water crises into international cooperation. Not everyone, however, shares this optimism. [News Source]

Fuel economy deal a template for debt talks, Obama says. Flanked by 11 auto executives and a display of some of the most cutting-edge vehicles on the road, President Barack Obama drew parallels between the debt showdown in Congress and a landmark agreement his administration has reached to ramp up fuel economy standards. [News Source]

Costly sewer program may have little benefit. Seattle and King County propose spending more than $1.3 billion on combined sewer overflows, raising rates that already are among the highest in the country. Yet it will make little difference to the water quality of Puget Sound. [News Source]