COPENHAGEN, Denmark - September 16 - Nearly 100 activists from 21 countries gathered in Copenhagen over the weekend to begin to lay plans for a massive global mobilization against climate change that will focus on the UN Climate Conference scheduled to take place in Copenhagen in 2009.

The gathering of activists and organizations from around the world ended the weekend by issuing an international call to action against climate change and in support of climate justice.

KALISPELL, Mont. - September 15 - The public is invited to attend a series of free lectures starting Thursday, September 25, at Flathead Valley Community College (FVCC) in Kalispell.

- September 15 - In an interview with Prof. Minqi Li, The Real News Network's Paul Jay discusses China's contribution to the global climate change crisis.

WASHINGTON - September 11 - Higher than average Gulf of Mexico sea surface temperatures are currently fueling Hurricane Ike's increasing size and power and potentially large storm surge damage. Higher temperatures are part of a long-term trend that new scientific studies warn is intensifying the effects of major Atlantic storms like Ike.

WASHINGTON - September 11 - A British Court today acquitted six Greenpeace volunteers for attempting to shut down a coal-fired power plant in Kent on the grounds that they had a "lawful excuse" because the coal plant was causing so much property damage around the world due to global warming that it exceeded the property damage done through shutting operations of the coal plant.The Maidstone Crown Court heard testimony from NASA climate expert James Hansen, an Inuit leader from Greenland and the British Conservative Party's environment adviser.

SAN FRANCISCO - September 4 - In response to a scientific petition filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, the federal government announced today it was launching a full status review to determine whether three ice-dependent seal species that inhabit Alaskan waters warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act.