CANBERRA (Reuters) - Scientists were watching on Monday for a collision between a giant iceberg and an Antarctic glacier, which could free up sea lanes to America’s McMurdo Station and help penguins reach crucial feeding areas.

The iceberg B15-A, which is about 100 miles long and contains enough drinking water to supply the world for several months, was once part of the major B15 iceberg which broke off the Ross Ice Shelf on the edge of Antarctica five years ago.

Complete article: Scientists Watch for Antarctic Iceberg Collision (Reuters)

Canadian officials, who are considering regulations to reduce carbon dioxide exhaust from cars and trucks, are spending a few days this week getting a firsthand look at their primary inspiration: California.

Although Canada has not decided whether it will follow California’s lead by requiring automakers to cut greenhouse gases to combat global warming, the country’s environment minister noted Monday that doing so could have a powerful cumulative effect.

Complete article: Canada Considers Copying California’s Greenhouse Gas Law (LA Times)

Burying carbon dioxide produced by Australia’s power stations would cut the long-term costs of reducing greenhouse emissions, a new report suggests.

The study also found Australia is in a prime position to take advantage of the technology because of its high reliance on fossil fuels and an abundance of storage sites.

Complete article: Burying CO2 emissions would aid climate (Sydney Morning Herald)

Academics are investigating the potential of distributed computing to increase the efficiency of renewable forms of energy

Researchers claimed on Monday that grid computing may be the answer to managing the increasing number of renewable energy sources that could eventually be integrated into the UK’s power network

Brunel University and Imperial College London are part of the GridCC organisation which is investigating how distributed computing can be used to create a real-time computing grid to coordinate inexpensive, reliable, cheap and sustainable energy supplies.

Complete article: Grid computing to combat global warming (ZD Net UK)

Global warming is more than just a theory to Germany’s most famous winter resort, where a worrisome shortage of snow in recent decades has forced the Alpine village to reinvent itself.

Garmisch-Partenkirchen gained worldwide fame as the venue for the 1936 winter Olympics, but the picturesque town of 27,000 has now become more reliant on summer tourism because rain falls more often than snow in winter.

Complete article: Shortage of snow worries German Alpine resort (Deccan Herald)

An oil-free New Zealand is on the Green Party’s agenda.

At the party’s “Picnic for the Planet” on Waiheke Island yesterday, co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons warned of an oil crisis within 10 years.

“The end of cheap oil is coming towards us with the force of a tsunami and New Zealand is not ready,” she said.

Complete article: Greens predict oil crisis in 10 years (New Zealand Herald)