Quoted: Just after sunset on one of the first mild nights of spring, Richard Reynolds parked his hatchback near a traffic circle in the London neighborhood of Hoxton. Tied to his roof were a potted honeysuckle and a dozen box hedge plants, spilling out of garbage bags. Trays of bright white Paris daisies filled the trunk, and cartons of variegated ivy were wedged in the passenger seat.

Quoted: Vast cracks in Arctic ice

Evidence of the break-up of the Arctic ice-cap has emerged from research during an expedition by the Canadian military.

Scientists travelling with troops found major new fractures in giant ice shelves in Canada's far north. David Shukman reports.

Quoted: What is RSS?
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an XML-based format for distributing and aggregating Web content (such as news headlines).

Using RSS, Web content providers can easily create and disseminate feeds of data that include, for example, news links, headlines, and summaries.

The UN News Centre provides a feed for top headlines, as well as feeds for news organized by subject and region.

Includes an excellent description of RSS feeds as well as links to seeral climate change feeds

Quoted: Really Simple Syndication, RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as news headlines, newly posted documents, latest vacancies or blog entries. An RSS document, which is called a "feed", "web feed", or "channel", contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible to keep up with UNFCCC's feeds in an automated manner which is easier than checking them manually. RSS content can be read using software called a "feed reader" or an "aggregator." You subscribe to a feed by entering the feed's link into the reader or by clicking an RSS icon in a browser that initiates the subscription process. The reader checks your subscribed feeds regularly for new content, downloading any updates that it finds.

Quoted: The United States development of directed-energy weapons – designed to advance protection of its forces, control of space, and the capacity to strike foreign targets at will – appears to be a seductive and effective route to guaranteeing US security in the 21st century. But, in the absence of any arms-control regime, the result could instead be a higher level of threat.

Quoted: Global trends indicate a looming environmental catastrophe, and engaging high school students around the world may be the only hope.

Quoted: A fabled Arctic shipping route from the Atlantic to Pacific is now open due to ice loss, Europe's space agency says.

Quoted: A thaw of Antarctic ice is outpacing predictions by the U.N. climate panel and could in the worst case drive up world sea levels by 2 meters (6 ft) by 2010, a leading experts said ...

Quoted: Arctic ponds that date back thousands of years are disappearing as global warming increases evaporation rates, a development that may alter the ecological balance in the frozen north, scientists said.

The researchers at Canada's Queen's University and University of Alberta examined two dozen ponds on Ellesmere Island, beginning in 1983. By 2006, they found many of the ponds were drying up over the summer, and others were shrinking.