Extreme Floods, Storms Seen Increasing in North America  [archive]
from Reuters, 6/20/2008
Floods, droughts and severe storms are likely to ravage North America more frequently as emissions of planet-warming gases rise, according to a U.S. government study.

Air Travel and Carbon on Increase in Europe   [archive]
by Elisabeth Rosenthal, New York Times, 6/22/2008
The boom in low-cost air travel has turned this corner of southern Spain into a thriving tourist destination, and retired plumbers and schoolteachers into Europe’s new jet set. But it has done more than democratize air travel and offer new vistas to working-class people. It has also opened a new dimension to the global warming crisis.

Global Warming to Spark Increase in US Wildfires   [archive]
from NewScientist, 6/21/2008
TODAY much of the north-western US wilderness is already a tinderbox, but thanks to global warming, wildfires will be scorching even more land every year by the end of the century.

Science

UW Scientist: Sea Level Change a Driving Force in Mass Extinctions [archive]
from The Capital Times, 6/21/2008
Professor Shanan Peters looked at data gathered by scientists over many years and analyzed what they found at about 600 locations all over the continental United States and Alaska, going back more than 500 million years. He found that changes in ocean environments related to sea level exert a driving influence on rates of extinction, which animals and plants survive or vanish, and the composition of life in the ocean.

NASA Launches Satellite to Track Ocean Levels, Monitor Warming [archive]
by Dan Hart, Bloomberg, 6/21/2008
NASA launched a satellite on a joint three-year mission with the French space agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales to measure sea-surface height as a way to monitor global climate change.

Carbon Market

A Green Coal Baron? [archive]
by Clive Thompson, 6/22/2008
Through a study of Jim Rogers, CEO of Duke Energy, this article explores current issues and questions in power conservation, clean energy and carbon regulation in the United States.

Big Businesses Seek Out Solar as Sector Heats Up [archive]
by Nichola Groom, Reuters, 6/20/2008
This month, several of the world's biggest technology and manufacturing companies made major moves into the burgeoning solar power business. That could be the start of a trend as corporate giants look to capitalize on the growing demand for cleaner energy sources.

Politics/Legislation

Florida Considers Greenhouse Gas Limits  [archive]
by David Fischer, AP, 6/22/2008
Florida — which could be among the most vulnerable states should dire global warming predictions of rising seas, shore erosion and monster hurricanes come to pass — is considering capping emissions of greenhouse gases and hoping fellow Southern states to follow suit.

Carbon Pollution Regulation in U.S. Moving Ahead With EPA Rules  [archive]
by Jim Efstathiou Jr., 6/20/2008
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, after seven years of declining to regulate carbon- dioxide emissions under President George W. Bush, is taking its first steps to control the main gas blamed for global warming.

The Dirty Truth About Clean Coal  [archive]
by Ben Elgin, Business Week, 6/19/2008
Get ready for the selling of "clean coal." A $40 million industry-sponsored marketing and lobbying campaign has launched, with one national television spot featuring a farmer, a teacher, and a woman in a white lab coat declaring: "I believe"—while a voiceover describes how coal can be burned in an environmentally friendly manner.