British butterfly is evolving to respond to climate change As global temperatures rise and climatic zones move polewards, species will need to find different environments to prevent extinction. New research has revealed that climate change is causing certain species to move and adapt to a range of new habitats. [News Source]

Global warming takes huge financial toll, U.N. expert says DURBAN, South Africa — The U.N.’s top climate scientist cautioned climate negotiators Wednesday that global warming is leading to human dangers and soaring financial costs, but containing carbon emissions will have a host of benefits. [News Source]

Global warming takes huge financial toll, U.N. expert says DURBAN, South Africa — The U.N.’s top climate scientist cautioned climate negotiators Wednesday that global warming is leading to human dangers and soaring financial costs, but containing carbon emissions will have a host of benefits. [News Source]

Editorial: Global warming alarmism cooling Another frantic effort to redistribute wealth from developed nations to developing nations is under way, this time in Durban, South Africa. The excuse is the same old, tiresome claim that socialism writ large is necessary to save the planet from global warming.Fewer people are fooled every year... [News Source]

A brief history: the UN climate change conference Fr. Seán McDonagh is in Durban, South Africa, reporting on the UN Climate Change Conference 2011. He will be providing updates throughout the conference. [News Source]

The UN Pulls Back From Its Extreme Weather Claims Folks like Al Gore may claim that anyone with doubts about an asserted connection between global warming and an increasing severity of extreme weather events is an anti-science "denier," but the facts, and even the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, tell a different story. [News Source]

Are banks to blame for climate change? A report released by non-governmental groups at the climate talks in Durban, South Africa, said that major global banks bear responsibility for global warming by funding utilities and mining companies to build coal-fired power plants [News Source]

2011 one of hottest years on record. The world is getting hotter, with 2011 one of the warmest years on record, and humans are to blame, a report by the World Meteorological Organization said on Tuesday. It warned increasing global average temperatures were expected to amplify floods, droughts and other extreme weather patterns. [News Source]

Health imperilled by climate change: Report. Australians are being warned that their health is being put at risk by climate change. A Climate Commission report released Wednesday says climate change related injury, disease and deaths will continue to grow in decades to come unless sustained action is taken. [News Source]

Gulf of Mexico saltwater threatens rice, crawfish farmers. A rice and crawfish farming region on the low-lying southwest Louisiana coast has declared a state of emergency because a large freshwater basin that farmers rely on for irrigation is being spoiled by salt water from the Gulf of Mexico. Levees, oil drilling, hurricanes and sea level rise have contributed to the loss of the state's shoreline buffer. [News Source]

Forest-dependent communities lobby for end of UN’s REDD+ program. Organizations working with indigenous peoples living in forests say the United Nations program on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD+) is just another way for big corporates to reap huge profits. [News Source]