Stark climate change warning - Yahoo! News

Stark climate change warning - Yahoo! News: "The report said warming, widely blamed on human emissions of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels, would cause desertification, droughts and rising seas and would hit hard in the tropics, from sub-Saharan Africa to Pacific islands."

Children bear brunt of climate warming: report - Yahoo! News

Children bear brunt of climate warming: report - Yahoo! News: "'Children are already bearing the brunt of climate change and there will be millions more children caught up in climate-related natural disasters every year,' said Jasmine Whitbread, head of Save the Children UK.
Business is already starting to feel adverse effects, according to another study on Friday by catastrophe risk modeling firm Risk Management Solutions.
It said financial losses from weather-related catastrophes had risen on average by two percent a year since the 1970s, and pointed to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2005."

U.N. Draft Cites Humans in Recent Climate Shifts - New York Times

U.N. Draft Cites Humans in Recent Climate Shifts - New York Times: "The latest United Nations assessment of the role of humans in global warming has found with “high confidence” that greenhouse gas emissions are at least partly responsible for a host of changes already under way, including longer growing seasons and shrinking glaciers."

Silicon Valley's "best brains" work on energy - Yahoo! News

Silicon Valley's "best brains" work on energy - Yahoo! News: "Although commercial success could take years, venture capitalists are pouring cash into solar power, fuel cells, wind energy, biofuels, new lighting microchips, 'smart' power grids, and other innovative energies."

Ethanol boom could worsen world hunger: study - Yahoo! News

Ethanol boom could worsen world hunger: study - Yahoo! News: "'If, all other things being equal, the prices of staple foods increased because of demand for biofuels, the number of food-insecure people in the world would rise by over 16 million for every percentage increase in the real prices of staple foods,' they wrote.
'That means that 1.2 billion people could be chronically hungry by 2025 -- 600 million more than previously predicted.'"

Britain's queen going green - Yahoo! News

Britain's queen going green - Yahoo! News: "Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has hired a team of consultants to carry out the first-ever audit of carbon emissions from her three official residences, a spokesman for Buckingham Palace said Tuesday."

AP State News - High court decision on greenhouse gases could benefit California - sacbee.com

AP State News - High court decision on greenhouse gases could benefit California - sacbee.com: "The state has been asking the EPA for authority to limit tailpipe emissions since 2005, but the agency has yet to grant the state a waiver to do so. Eleven other states have adopted California's tougher rules, which would force automakers to cut exhaust from cars and light trucks by 25 percent and from sport utility vehicles by 18 percent, beginning in 2009.
'This case explicitly states that the Clean Air Act permits regulating greenhouse gases ... and the court has now clearly said that carbon dioxide is a pollutant,' Brown told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. 'That paves the way for California's waiver.'"