FEATURED ARTICLE:
What Now for Our Feverish Planet?  [archive]
by Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 3/29/2007
As part of TIME magazine's feature issue on climate change, this article offers a macro overview of the possible strategies in the areas of business, architecture, politics and energy to curb global warming.

Climate Change 'Could Create 200m Refugees'  [archive]
by Jonathan Leake, The Times (UK), 4/1/2007
Equatorial lands that are home to hundreds of millions of people will become uninhabitable as food and water run out due to climate change, IPCC scientists will warn this week.

Climate Focus 'Brings Security'  [archive]
from BBC, 3/27/2007
Dealing with climate change would not only help the environment but bring a "peace dividend", UK Environment Secretary David Miliband has said.

Previewing a U.N. Climate Report: Species Are Going to Be Lost  [archive]
from AP, 3/30/2007
From the micro to the macro, from plankton in the oceans to polar bears in the far north and seals in the far south, global warming has begun changing life on Earth, international scientists will report next Friday.

On the Front Lines of Climate Change  [archive]
by Mark Hertsgaard, TIME, 3/29/2007
Global warming's shift from hypothetical to real means that we're all starting to think about the many ways global warming will affect us. This article surveys the ways in which various countries and cities have adapted.

Science

Overloaded Oceans [archive]
by Tony Haymet, Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 3/30/2007
An excess of fossil fuel-derived carbon dioxide is causing profound changes in ocean chemistry. These changes are some of the most pressing problems presented by the burning of fossil fuels, but they get little attention.

Carbon Market

California Eyes Joining EU Emissions Trading Scheme  [archive]
by Jeff Mason, Reuters, 3/30/2007
California hopes to link its planned emissions trading system to the European Union's market, boosting efforts to build a global mechanism to fight climate change, aides to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said.

EU Calls for Increased Use of Emissions Trading, Invites Public Feedback   [archive]
from AFX News/Forbes.com, 3/28/2007
The European Commission said it has issued a statement calling for increased use of emissions trading and environmental taxes, and has invited member states, other institutions and the public to give their opinion on the matter.

Kenya Starts Carbon Trading as Climate Change Hits Africa  [archive]
from jurnalo.com, 3/30/2007
Africa contributed very little to global warming and yet is suffering the most from climate change. In Kenya, some villages near the world-famous Maasai Mara nature reserve are to be integrated into the international carbon-trading scheme.

Op-ed: Carbon Trading Won't Work  [archive]
by Professor Michael K. Dorsey, published in the L.A. Times, 4/1/2007
An environmental studies professor from Dartmouth college claims that cap and trade schemes won't achieve the desired effect, arguing that experiments so far have favored big polluters without curbing global warming gases.

Politics/Legislation

A Politics of Global Warming: The Social-Science Resource  [archive]
by Professor Andrew Dobson, Keele University, published at OpenDemocracy, 3/29/2007
What kind of politics does climate change need? New understandings of the real drivers of human social behaviour can help provide an answer, says Andrew Dobson, a professor of politics.

Warming Debate Over; Let the Solutions Begin  [archive]
by Thomas Friedman, New York Times, 3/29/2007
Influential New York Times columnist hails California's governor for taking meaningful legislative steps to curb global warming, while criticizing the current administration for lack of taking any such steps.

Tax on Carbon Emissions Gains Supports  [archive]
by Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson, Washington Post, 4/1/2007
As lawmakers on Capitol Hill push for a cap-and-trade system to rein in the nation's greenhouse gas emissions, an unlikely alternative has emerged from an ideologically diverse group of economists and industry leaders: a carbon tax.

Campaigns Save Energy with Hybrid Cars  [archive]
by Nancy Benac, AP, 3/31/2007
This year's presidential candidates are trying to get good mileage out of getting good mileage. The candidates, who do a lot of talking about the need for greater energy efficiency, are not just asking who walks the walk but also, who drives the hybrid?

The Senate Going Green?  [archive]
by Brian Wingfield, Forbes, 3/26/2007
Several key lawmakers are taking various steps to create laws that will exert greater control over harmful greenhouse gases.