Reuters - The world should safeguard coral reefs with networks of small no-fishing zones to confront threats such as climate change, and shift from favoring single, big protected areas, a U.N. study showed.

AFP - The glaciers atop Mount Ararat, the peak in eastern Turkey where Noah's Ark is believed by devotees to have settled after the biblical flood, have shrunk by 30 percent in surface area over the last 30 years, a researcher said Wednesday.

McClatchy Newspapers - FREDERICA, Del. — Conservative Republicans around the country are using cap and trade — a way to limit global-warming pollution — as a political weapon to attack GOP moderates as well as Democrats.

AFP - Estimates of the rate of ice loss from Greenland and West Antarctica, one of the most worrying questions in the global warming debate, should be halved, according to Dutch and US scientists.

Reuters - Increasingly erratic rainfall patterns related to climate change pose a major threat to food security and economic growth, water experts said on Monday, arguing for greater investment in water storage.

West Coast Green will take place September 30-October 2 at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. Organizers bill the event as "the world's leading interactive conference on green innovation for the built environment."

Green building now accounts for close to one-third of new U.S. construction. That's up from 2 percent in 2005, according to McGraw-Hill Construction, which tracks the industry. The U.S. Green Building Council, and its LEED rating system, have changed construction practice -- and policy -- around the country.

The first ever ?Eco-Precinct? will soon rise in Manila as a station for all environment-related offenses in the Paco area, a place with polluted waterways or ?estero? and streets littered with garbage.

Three locations in Frederick were hit with green water in the past 10 days

New Delhi, Sept 7 (PTI) Environment Ministry has given the green signal to the ambitious 1,820-meter long aerial rope-way across the Brahmaputra river connecting Guwahati and North Guwahati via Umananda Island in Assam.