Walkers tackle global warming
The new sidewalks on U.S. 7 got a workout Monday when more than 500 people walked from Shelburne to Burlington to put global warming in the political spotlight. The 49-mile walk called "From the Road Less Traveled: Vermonters Walking Toward a Clean Energy Future," began Thursday in Ripton, the hometown of writer and event organizer Bill McKibben.

BA President speaks out on the challenges of climate change and science education
Policies that prepare the world to adapt to climate change are now just as important as efforts to mitigate its likely effects, according to Frances Cairncross, President of the BA and Chair of Britain's Economic and Social Research Council. "Adaptation policies have had far less attention than mitigation, and that is a mistake," says Ms Cairncross, "...we need to think now about policies that prepare for a hotter, drier world, especially in poorer countries. That may involve, for instance, developing new crops, constructing flood defences, setting different building regulations, or banning building close to sea level."

Minister issues global warming alert
The current trends in global warming will have adverse effects on the tourism industry, Environment minister Prof Kivutha Kibwana has said. He said the rise in temperatures would lower sea levels, leading to the destruction of seashore structures. "Sea levels will rise, flooding coastal areas. Heat waves will be more frequent and more intense, while droughts and wildfires will occur more often," he said. "We should put in place plans to adapt to imminent climatic changes and which will affect the tourism sector," Kibwana told a workshop on climate change for African negotiators in a Naivasha hotel on Monday.

Shade trees fight global warming in Calif
acramento, Calif., has decided that when it comes to battling global warming Mother Nature knows best and nothing is better than planting a tree. For the past 16 years, Sacramento has been planting hundreds of thousands of shade trees designed to lower temperatures and trap greenhouse gases, the Washington Post reports.

World 'must adapt' to climate change
Climate change efforts should focus on dealing with the effects of global warming rather than just trying to prevent its increase, a leading scientific expert claimed today. Frances Cairncross, president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA) and chair of Britain's Economic and Social Research Council, believes that it is an "enormous" and "very difficult task" to bring down carbon dioxide emissions, which is linked to global warming. As well as attempting to carry out this mitigation, governments should aim to adapt to the situation and to develop policies "that prepare better for a hotter, drier, world", Ms Cairncross argues.