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Media
Leading Journalists Discuss Sustainable Development Reporting at World Environment Center Colloquium (CSRwire, May 8)
Lime.com Rolls out the Green Living Animated Web Series --"Ms. Rabble" (CSRwire, May 7)
'Days' makes green pitch with a hitch [Soap opera features green wedding] (L.A. Times, May 7)
Scientist and activist David Suzuki guest-edits weekend edition of Vancouver Sun (Vancouver Sun, May 5)
Green Living & Social Trends
Taking a Practical Approach to 'Green' Living (NPR, May 4)
 Greening Has Immediate Health Perks (Time, May 3)
Small, Unexciting Steps Can Make Big Climate Leap (Planet Ark/Reuters, May 3)
A holiday at the end of the Earth: tourists paying to see global warming in action (Independent, May 3)
Business & Economy
GM Is First Automaker To Join Environmental Partnership (ENN/AP, May 9)
Citigroup Commits US$50 Bln to Green Projects (Planet Ark/Reuters, May 9)
Most Companies Lack an Energy Strategy, Research Shows (CSRwire, May 9)
Fourteen New Companies Join U.S. Climate Change Fight (GreenBiz, May 8)
Obama Criticizes Auto Makers For Opposing Tough Fuel Standards (Wall Street Journal, May 8)
Wal-Mart starts solar power test program (Yahoo News/AP, May 7)
Jobs Promises a Greener Apple (Yahoo News/Computer Business Online)
IT Industry 'as Polluting as Aviation' (GreenBiz, May 6)
British companies forecast chilly outlook in face of global warming (Guardian, May 4)
Buyer Beware, Carbon Cuts Not Always Real (Planet Ark/Reuters, May 3)
Commentary
Coal-fired danger burns for clean-energy solution (Orlando Sentinel, May 7)
The Terminator says go green (Times UK, May 6)
EPA defiance poses a grave threat (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 4)
Protect the rainforests [Op/ed by Jane Goodall] (Toronto Star, May 4)
Local Warming; A carbon dioxide wake-up call for the Washington region (Washington Post, May 2)
Ecosystems & Biodiversity
Tropical Plants May Acclimate As Rainfall Changes (TerraDaily/SPX, May 8)
Study ties coral disease to warmer oceans (Reuters, May 8)
Ecology In An Era Of Globalization (TerraDaily/SPX, May 7)
Migratory birds, whales confused by warming: U.N. (Yahoo News/Reuters, May 7)
Wildlife Caught In Web Of Internet Sales (TerraDaily/AFP, May 7)
Famous Caymans Coral Reefs Dying, Scientists Say (ENN/Reuters, May 7)
Mideast Conflict Slows Dead Sea Rescue (ENN/Reuters, May 7)
Poaching Rises in Zimbabwe's Game Parks, Report Says (ENN/Reuters, May 7)
Report Says Malaysia Seeks To Rehabilitate Borneo Rain Forests Marred by Logging (ENN/AP, May 7)
S Pacific to stop bottom trawling (BBC News, May 5)
Madagascar Creates Millions of Acres of New Protected Areas (National Geographic News, May 4)
World Bank Eyes $250 Million Deal To Save Forests (ENN/Reuters, May 4)
As the Climate Changes, Bits of England's Coast Crumble (N.Y. Times, May 4) Free site registration required
Feeling Warmth, Subtropical Plants Move North (N.Y. Times, May 3) Free site registration required
Growth in Wild Animal Trade Worries Brazil (ENN/Reuters, May 3)
Deforestation is fastest in Indonesia (ITV, May 3)
Probiotics could save frogs (news@nature.com, May 2)
Technology
Modified rice called nice for environment (San Francisco Chronicle, May 4)
Scientists Seek Ways To Bury Greenhouse Gases (EnergyDaily/AFP, May 3)
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Public Opinion & Surveys
Climate top concern with youth, poll shows (Vancouver Sun, May 8)
Green Building
IIDA, CoreNet Global and AIA Announce Winners of 4th Annual Sustainability Leadership Awards for Design & Development (CSRwire, May 8)
More low-income housing being built green (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 5)
Why Tiananmen Square could go from red to green (Guardian, May 4)
Zero-Carbon UK Houses 1/8th Dearer to Build - Report (Planet Ark/Reuters, May 3)
Government
Massachusetts Challenges Federal Energy Rules (Planet Ark/Reuters, May 8)
US Rejects 'High Cost' Global Warming Scenarios (Planet Ark/Reuters, May 7)
Head Of IPCC Warns Of Adverse National Security Impact From Climate Change (Think Progress, May 7)
Money Falls Short of Plans to Clear Bus Air (N.Y. Times/AP, May 6) Free site registration required
When Carbon Is Currency [10 states create cap-and-trade program] (N.Y. Times, May 6) Free site registration required
Minnesota Legislature Passes Country's Toughest E-Waste Bill (GreenBiz, May 5)
Bill Proposes Climate Study Focused on U.S. Defense (N.Y. Times, May 4) Free site registration required
Interior Secretary Says U.S. Must Focus on Preventing Species from Becoming Endangered (ENN/AP, May 4)
A big move on global warming [New Washington state law limits power from coal, sets goal for cutting greenhouse gases] (Tacoma News-Tribune, May 4)
U.S. Environment Satellites in Jeopardy, Scientists Say (ENN/Reuters, May 3)
International
UN program to fight global warming is target of criticism (International Herald Tribune, May 8)
UN Urges Climate Action; Nations Split on Tactics (Planet Ark/Reuters, May 8)
Asia Has Few Plans Yet to Deal with Rising Seas (Planet Ark/Reuters, May 7)
Question marks over China's climate commitment (Yahoo News/AFP, May 6)
Sarkozy Urges Action On Global Warming (TerraDaily/AFP, May 6)
Japan vows $100M to stem climate change (Yahoo News/AP, May 6)
Science triumphs over politics at UN climate change meeting (Yahoo News/AFP, May 5)
Bhutan To Pay for the Climate Sins of Others (ENN/Reuters, May 4)
US To Lock Horns Over Tigers And Whale Trade (TerraDaily/AFP, May 3)
Developing nations have slowed greenhouse gas rise (New Scientist, May 3)
Mediterranean nations launch climate change study (Yahoo News/AFP, May 3)
Climate Change
Scientists Retrieve Pristine Record of the Continent's Climate Cycles From Beneath Antarctica's Ross Sea (TerraDaily/SPX, May 7)
Global Warming Can Be Stopped, World Climate Experts Say (National Geographic News, May 4)
Arctic Leaders Blame Warming for Wolves, Suicide (ENN/Reuters, May 4)
Climate Change, Not Humans, Trounced Neanderthals (Yahoo News/LiveScience, May 4)
Rising sea levels threaten small Pacific island nations (International Herald Tribune, May 3)
Is the IPCC Doing Harm to Science? [Critics call panel 'alarmist'] (Spiegel, May 3)
Plants 'not to blame' for potent greenhouse gases (New Scientist, May 2)
Energy
U.N. raises doubts on biofuels (Yahoo News/AP, May 8)
Scientists look high in the sky for power [Jet stream could fill global energy needs, researchers say] (San Francisco Chronicle, May 7)
Nuclear Industry Welcomes Climate Report Backing (Planet Ark/Reuters, May 7)
Offshore Wind Proposal Gains Fans in Delaware (NPR, May 4)
Cats, not windmills, bigger threat to birds [Impact study on wind power] (San Francisco Chronicle, May 4)
Wind Farms May Not Lower Air Pollution, Study Suggests (N.Y. Times, May 4) Free site registration required
Religious Leaders Tour Kentucky Coal Mining Sites, Praying for End to Mountaintop Removal (ENN/AP, May 3)
Old King Coal Hard To Dethrone (EnergyDaily/AFP, May 3)
Physicist Searches for Alternative Fuel Technologies (PBS, May 2)
Pollution
Indigenous Peru Group Threatens To Sue Occidental (ENN/Reuters, May 4)
Kids breathing pollutants on aging buses (Yahoo News/AP, May 4)
Air pollution suffocates Calcutta (BBC News, May 3)
Jeans Firms Pollute Mexican City With Blue Dye (Planet Ark/Reuters, May 3)
Plastic Waste: More Dangerous than Global Warming (GreenBiz.com, May)
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