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icebergs heading for New Zealand (E Canada Now) About 100 icebergs are heading for New Zealand and a warning has been issued for ships in the Southern Ocean . The icebergs were spotted off the South Island of New Zealand by plane. Global Warming Needs 'Wake-Up' Call: German Chancellor (580 CFRA Radio) British Prime Minister Tony Blair and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed Friday that they will try to bring global warming to the forefront of the world's agenda. While in London, the European leaders also will work together to encourage the United States to take a more active role in reducing emissions. UK protesters urge climate action (The Age) More than 20,000 protesters rallied in London ahead of international talks on climate change in Kenya, demanding that world leaders act to curb global warming. The event included a march from the United States embassy in protest against US President George W Bush's refusal to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on cutting climate-warming gases from fossil fuels. Global Warming Could Trigger Insect Population Boom (LiveScience.com) A rise in the Earth’s temperature could lead to an increase in the number of insects worldwide, with potentially dire consequences for humans, a new study suggests. New research shows that insect species living in warmer areas are more likely to undergo rapid population growth because they have higher metabolic rates and reproduce more frequently.

Activists push for action on global warming (Boston Globe) Scores of people fanned out from one end of Vermont to the other and from top to bottom on Saturday to urge lawmakers to make real progress in the fight against global warming. A $2,500 billion sun umbrella? (ZDNet.com blogs) A University of Arizona professor thinks he has a solution if we don't act fast enough to develop renewable sources of energy. He wants to reduce the temperature on Earth by building a massive space sunshade made of — hold your breath — 20,000 billions of very small spacecraft weighing about a gram and orbiting a million miles above our heads. A Kyoto primer (Canada.com) Kyoto, global warming and climate change have suddenly become buzz words at the heart of the latest political debates in Canada. The issue will be making worldwide headlines starting next week at an international conference in Nairobi, Kenya. Could the answer to global warming lie in the old ways? (Standard) Participants at the climate change meeting in Nairobi will be seeking to learn from the lifestyles of indigenous peoples while the biotechnology sector will sell genetic modification as a solution to climate change. Click here for previous news Click for this page's permanent location This site's RSS feed Include this news on your site for free

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