President Bush has designated three Pacific island areas (a total of 195,280 square miles) as national monuments to protect them from commercial fishing, calling it the "largest area of protected sea in the world." (via Foreign Policy)

Video game consoles in the U.S. use enough energy to power the city of San Diego (pop. 1,300,000) for a year.

Last month was the second warmest October in history since records of monthly temperatures began in 1880.

Americans drove less – 12.2 billion miles less – this past June than the same month a year ago. It's the eighth month in a row that driving declined across the U.S.

In an effort to combat global warming, New York City will join 20 other U.S. cities to measure the carbon footprint of its municipal services, including fire and police departments, government buildings and waste services. Paul Dickinson, CEO of the Carbon Disclosure Project: "If you don't measure these emissions, you cannot manage them."

American retailers like Wal-Mart, Kohl’s and Whole Foods Market are installing solar panels on roofs of their stores not only to cut electricity costs, but to meet a December 31 deadline for tax incentives.

Nearly half of all primates in the world face extinction due to the burning and clearing of tropical forests, according to The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Like, except for some gorillas. At least 100,000 gorillas have been discovered living in a swamp in Africa.

California and five other states – Connecticut, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania and New York – are suing the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to regulate greenhouse gases from planes, boats and industrial vehicles.

Global warming has caused an eight-square-mile ice chunk to break off from the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf in Canada, the largest piece to fall off from the region in three years.

Car maker Ford Motor Co. is planning to shift from making trucks and SUVs to smaller, fuel-efficient vehicles. Ford's U.S. sales dropped by 14 percent in the first six months of this year. General Motors announced a similar move last month.