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The article offers news briefs related to environmental protection. A documentary film titled "An Inconvenient Truth," about global warming starring Al Gore, opens in theaters in May 2006. Whole Foods Market Inc. has purchased enough wind-energy credits to offset the power used by its 180-store operation. The National Football League planted some 2,500 trees near Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan to help make up for emissions created by powering lights, heating, and equipment during February 2006 Super Bowl.

The article reports on issues concerning motives behind the development of Web-based games Climate Challenge and CO2FX. The makers of these games explored the world to build a sustainable house just do the educators and environmental organizations behind other games in which users recycle lightbulbs while dodging obstacles.

The article reviews the film "Everything's Cool," by Daniel Gold and Judith Helfand.

The article discusses how casual clothing can save the planet. Japan's "Cool Biz" campaign urges businesses to combat global warming by using less air-conditioning during the summer and letting employees doff their ties and suit jackets. In winter, "Warm Biz" encourages workers to layer up and turn the heat down. Last year's efforts reduced carbon dioxide emissions by 460,000 tons. Mazda Motor Corp. offers its Japanese employees up to 1,500 yen a month if they walk to work.

This article informs that the research conducted by scientists from the Universities of New Mexico and Arizona, and published in the November 4, 2004, issue of Nature, shows a strong correlation between large fires and warm periods over the past 7,000 years. The polar bear may soon have company atop the already dwindling arctic food chain. Sightings of grizzlies in northern reaches where they were never seen before may indicate that warmer temperatures are allowing the brown bears to expand their range. The National Center for Atmospheric Research recently found that drought afflicts more than twice as much land as it did just 30 years ago, from between 3.8 and 5.7 billion acres in the early 1970s to as much as 11 billion in 2002. Rising temperatures are a key factor in the change. In the United States, drought in Arizona cost cattle-related industries almost $3 billion in 2002 alone. The researchers conclude that intact ecosystems are better able to adapt to climate change.

This article presents information on developments related to environmentalism in Great Britain. Greenness is next to godliness in the Church of England. At a meeting of its General Synod in February, the leadership voted to "make care for creation, and repentance for its exploitation, fundamental" to the church's "faith, practice, and mission." The motion also praised the British government for its stance on global warming and committed the synod to "lead by example" in making the lifestyle changes necessary to achieve sustainability. In other news from across the pond, Prime Minister Tony Blair has announced a plan to help mitigate the environmental impact of air travel by civil servants on official business. Officials are lobbying UK airlines to offer a similar option to the public at the time of booking, so eco-conscious travelers can pay up to make up for their jet-setting ways.

Provides information on the global changes in the environment as of April 2005. Benefits of global warming for shallow-water squid and octopuses; Decline of the krill population in the Antarctic; Role of the weather in the changes in tree colors.

Presents information on the significance of warm temperature to the changes in environmental cycles as of July 2004. Impact of warming temperature on the activities of plants and animals; Rise of the levels of carbon dioxide in 2003; Findings of a study on the tropical and subtropical regions of the Atlantic Ocean.

Relates events depicting the effects of global warming. Avalanches at the Matterhorn Mountain; Effects of summer on European lakes and streams; Incident of a mosquito-borne flu-like illness in West Nile.