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Will Moving Endangered Species Save Them? July 18, 2008, CNN
A piece on the CNN web-page where Stanford biologist Terry Root is interviewed about the role of “assisted colonization” in saving species from climate change.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/07/17/saving.species.ap/index.html

Incentives For Carbon Sequestration May Not Protect Species July 9, 2008, Science Daily   Paying rural landowners in Oregon's Willamette Basin to protect at-risk animals won't necessarily mean that their newly conserved trees and plants will absorb more carbon from the atmosphere and vice versa, a new study has found.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080707170527.htm

Expect More Droughts, Heavy Downpours, Excessive Heat, And Intense Hurricanes Due To Global Warming, NOAA June 20, 2008, Science Daily
Details a scientific assessment that provides the first comprehensive analysis of observed and projected changes in weather and climate extremes in North America and U.S. territories recently released by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080619175522.htm

Even The Antarctic Winter Cannot Protect Wilkins Ice Shelf June 14, 2008, Science Daily  Ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula are important indicators for on-going climate change because they are sandwiched by extraordinarily raising surface air temperatures and a warming ocean. The Antarctic Peninsula has experienced extraordinary warming in the past 50 years of 2.5°C, scientists say.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080613104743.htm