FEATURED ARTICLE:
Scientists Detail Climate Changes, Poles to Tropics  [archive]
by James Kanter and Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times, 4/7/2007
From the poles to the tropics, the earth’s climate and ecosystems are already being shaped by the atmospheric buildup of greenhouse gases and face inevitable, possibly profound, alteration, according to the IPCC.

Scientists Feel Climate Report Is Too Weak  [archive]
by Seth Borenstein, AP, 4/7/2007
The 23-page IPCC summary released certainly didn't sound diplomatic. But it was too much so, scientists said.

The Rich-Poor Divide of Global Climate Change  [archive]
by G. Pascal Zachary, San Francisco Chronicle, 4/8/2007
The warming of the Earth, however menacing to the rich people in temperate countries such as Germany or the United States, presents a dire and immediate threat to the poor in tropical countries.

Reports from Four Fronts in the War on Warming  [archive]
by Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times, 4/3/2007
The New York Times takes a look at how climate change is being felt in four different places: Malawi, The Netherlands, India and Australia.

Science

How a Tiny Frog is a Deadly Portent of What Awaits and Overheating Planet   [archive]
by Alistair Dalton, The Scotsman, 4/7/2007
The Harlequin Frog in Costa Rica provides an example of the ripple effects species extinctions can have within ecosystems.

Making Sense of Melting Ice   [archive]
by Mary Carmichael, Newsweek, 4/2/2007
From now until March 2009, as part of the International Polar Year, 63 nations will funnel $1.7 billioninto polar research, aiming to determine which changes in the frozen landscape are natural, which are man-made and which, if any, are preventable.

Project Aims to 'Seed' Oceans to Heal Them   [archive]
by Jane Ayers, USA Today, 4/2/2007
In a bid to restore plankton populations, an eco-restoration firm named Planktos launched the ship Weatherbird II early in March from Washington, D.C., on a two-year project to "seed" the oceans with iron ore dust.

Carbon Market

EU 2006 Carbon Data Show Emission Targets Too Lax  [archive]
from Reuters, 4/3/2007
In the European carbon market, the EU handed out too many free emissions permits to heavy industry in 2006, undermining the first phase of the bloc's flagship weapon against climate change, preliminary data showed.

EU Shows Carbon Trading is Not Cutting Emissions   [archive]
by David Gow, The Guardian (UK), 4/3/2007
Some US states want their own 'cap and trade' scheme but the evidence is proving that permits are so generous they fail to curb industry.

UN-Backed Carbon Trading Plan to Reduce Greenhouse Emissions On Track for Completion  [archive]
from jurnalo.com, 3/30/2007
The International Transaction Log (ITL) allows industrialized countries that have signed up to the Kyoto Protocol, which seeks to curb global warming, to link their national registries to the central hub of a settlement system that will deliver traded allowances from sellers to buyers.

Venture Capitalists in Silicon Valley  [archive]
by Leonard Anderson, Reuters, 4/4/2007
Venture capitalists in Silicon Valley have been searching for the next big thing in high-tech for years, but now many have switched to greener pursuits -- finding technology to help cut global warming.

Politics/Legislation

FEATURED ARTICLE:
CO2 Ruling Heats Up Debate on Emissions  [archive]
by Robert Manor and Rick Popely, Chicago Tribune, 4/5/2007
In the coming years everything from cars to dishwashers to steel mills is likely to be required to consume energy more efficiently as a result of stricter environmental regulations expected to come on line to combat greenhouse gases.

For the Chief Justice, a Dissent and a Line in the Sand  [archive]
by Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, 4/8/2007
Aside from the Supreme Court's directive to the EPA, this week's ruling was significant because the majority widened access to the federal courts and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. expressed his displeasure at the decision.

Go Green? Go West  [archive]
by Ronald Brownstein, Los Angeles Times, 4/8/2007
Today, from the Rockies to the Pacific, a new political axis is emerging that could transform the national debate over energy, the environment and global warming.

Bush Splits with Congress and States on Emissions  [archive]
by Felicity Barringer and William Yardley, 4/3/2007
A day after the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government had the authority to regulate heat-trapping gases, President Bush said he thought that the measures he had taken so far were sufficient.