Great Lakes disappearing fast

(ClimateRadar.com) According to a Globe and Mail article, the Great Lakes, the larget body of fresh water on earth, is shrinking at an alarming rate. Global warming seems to be the culprit.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070924.LAKES24/TPStory/TPNational/Ontario/

Arctic Ice slowly recovering from worst year in history

(left, 2007 minimum compared to previous minimum set in 2005. Source NSIDC)
(ClimateRadar) According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, ice coverage in the Arctic is slowly recovering from the lowest coverage in recorded history. The apparent 2007 minimum was 4.13 million square kilometers (1.59 million square miles). It shatters the previous five-day [...]

Global warming to increase infectious disease: study

(AFP) Global warming likely will lead to an increase in infectious disease around the world, as viruses, microbes and the agents that spread them flourish, experts at a medical conference warned Tuesday.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hjaUrZsqGno4j-bxaN7y3dKf5nHA 

Arctic Summer Ice Thickness Halves to 1m

(PlanetArk) Large tracts of ice on the Arctic Ocean have halved in thickness to just 1 metre (3 ft) since 2001, making the region more accessible to ships, a researcher said on Tuesday.
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/44396/story.htm

Iceland to be ice free very soon

(News Yahoo) One day during a visit to the lovely country of Iceland last May, the retiring Icelandic ambassador to the United States, Helgi Agustsson, got a slightly devilish look on his face, then said suddenly to me: “There’s someone else you must see while you’re here in Reykjavik. He has a kind of… [...]

Global Warming effects on Alaska

(Earth Portal) Latest report on climate change effects in Alaska. More than anywhere else in the United States, Alaska has experienced widespread, adverse impacts from global warming, which are well documented and representative of some of the substantial costs associated with human-caused climate change.
http://www.earthportal.org/?page_id=70

Greenland warms to potatoes

“The price of potatoes was a headline,” says Professor Rosing. “That would have been a hilarious joke in Greenland a few years ago.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6993612.stm

Ice loss opens Northwest Passage

The most direct route through the Northwest Passage has opened up fully for the first time since records began, the European Space Agency (Esa) says.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6995999.stm

Africa: Continent Faces ‘Worst Effects From Global Warming’

Africa is still the most vulnerable and the least prepared continent to adapt to the consequences of climate change, experts have warned.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200709130059.html

Climate change affecting deep ocean floor

A study of the most remote forms of life on Earth has found that their splendid isolation on the deep seabed will not protect them from environmental catastrophes on the surface.
http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article2947394.ece