At last, Australia is picking up its game and taking a seat at Bali's climate change conference. Read about the Garnaut Review of Climate Change and its Economic Impact due in 2008, which will help Australia clarify its carbon emissions target for 2020.

Fall colors aren't what they used to be. The spectacular pumpkin-hued and crimson trees often go straight from dull green of late summer to rust brown. Experts point to climate change and warmer weather, which brings out fungi that attacks maples.

Climate change scientists are analysing Impressionist paintings - the sort that have vivid sunsets - to see what effect on world climate the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 had. This will help to understand how carbon emissions might affect our climate.

There's a new report, Climate Change in Australia - Sydney will have an annual temperature rise of up to 4.3 degrees by 2070. 10% rainfall decrease. More intense tropical cyclones & rising sea levels, more savage bushfires, more intense tropical cyclones.

The global economic boom has accelerated greenhouse gas emissions to a dangerous threshold not expected for a decade and could potentially cause irreversible climate change, said one of Australia's leading scientists.

We know the planet's cooking. But do we stop and think about the security consequences? Historical research shows that during cycles of warm (and cold) weather, societies can become destabilized, leading to civil unrest, uprisings, forced migrations etc.

50% of the English countryside has now disappeared thanks to urban intrusion. In the 1960s, only 26% had disappeared.Within 80 years, there will be no tranquil, green forests or countryside left. What a sad state for humanity!

CHICAGO - A panting border collie patrols a steamy Chicago beach, chasing away sea gulls before they can foul the sand. A sign asks beach goers to toss their trash in a bin and change their children's dirty diapers

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The internet's first green corporate governance network has been launched- a social network with the mission of helping to turn climate-related corporate decision-making into a public process and getting organisations to fight against climate change.