Threat: Those Who Accept Global Warming But Refuse To Change
(Free Internet Press) "You have to pinch yourself. Until now the Sun has denounced environmentalists as "loonies" and "eco beards". Last week it published "photographic proof that climate change is real". In a page that could have come straight from a Greenpeace pamphlet, it laid down 10 "rules" for its readers to follow: "Use public transport when possible; use energy-saving lightbulbs; turn off electric gadgets at the wall; do not use a tumble dryer ... "

Giant hole melted in northern ice cap
(Baltimore Sun) Something unusual is going on in the Beaufort Sea, a remote part of the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska. Over the past six weeks, a huge "lake" bigger than the state of Indiana has melted out of the sea ice. Within the past week, this "polynya" - a Russian word for any open water surrounded by sea ice - finally melted through a part of the ice that separated it from the open ocean, forming a kind of bay in the planet's northern ice cap.

Group proposes 11 ways to reduce pollution
(Asbury Park Press) New Jersey can reduce carbon dioxide emissions, a leading cause of global warming, by more than 7 percent over the next 20 years if it pursues an 11-step plan, according to Environment New Jersey, the group that advanced the plan Thursday.

African Climatologists Meet In Accra
(Daily Graphic) Climatologists from African countries are meeting in Accra to brainstorm on the issue of climate change which is affecting Ghana and other African countries, in order to fashion out ways to cater for the effects of the change.

Antarctic ozone hole will last two more decades, say scientists
(Raw Story) A large ozone hole over the Antarctic will persist for the next 20 years despite reduction in ozone-destroying gases, scientists from the World Meteorological Organization said Friday. The latest statistics show the hole is bigger this year than last year but falls short of the records recorded in 2000 and 2003.

Siberia's Frozen Wasteland 'Facing Meltdown'
(Life Style Extra) Climate scientists issued a Doomsday warning today after discovering the vast frozen wasteland of Siberia is facing meltdown. Spring has been advancing by up to a day a year across the icy untamed frontier - for more than two decades, according to research.

Big game can help protect ecosystems from global warming
(Canoe.ca) Polar bears aren't exactly living large these days. Not only is their habitat shrinking due to global warming, but so are their genitals thanks to industrial pollutants. A paper published in online edition of the journal Environmental Science and Technology detailed the bears' most recent plight. Researchers with the National Environmental Research Institute in Denmark looked at the genitals of 100 polar bears from Greenland and found that the higher the levels of certain industrial pollutants in their systems, the smaller their genitals, and therefore the less likely they were to be able to successfully reproduce.