As the weather warms up, so too does the green news on climate change...

1. If we carry on as usual, climate change will bring water shortages in major U.S. cities. (Bloomberg)
2. By the 2020s, NYC could see heat-wave deaths rise by 20 percent (thanks again to climate change). (The Guardian)
3. You know it's bad when people wish for fire ants instead of the newly invasive 'crazy ants.' (MNN)
4. What the frack do we know? Turns out, not a lot. (Grist)
5. Landmark ruling in Indonesia gives millions of hectares of forests to Indigenous people. (Mongabay)

We've got some interesting news on the climate change front this morning.

1. America has its first climate change refugees. (Grist)
2. The Farm Bill has been approved by the House. (Huffington Post)
3. What's blue, provides over 80 percent of U.S. fresh water, and is suffering? The Great Lakes. (MNN)
4. They're supposed to protect the rhinos, but the black market is creating poachers out of park rangers. (NPR)
5. Looks like the bond between human and dog may be deeper than we thought. (National Geographic)

Elephant poachers, take note.

1. Elephants may be growing more aggressive to those who pose a threat. (Huffington Post)
2. Cuts in volcano monitoring? Thanks, sequester. (MNN)
3. The North and South Poles are shifting. Take a wild guess as to why... (Scientific American)
4. Awww! A pod of whales has adopted a deformed bottlenose dolphin. (National Geographic)
5. Struggling to be leaders in conservation with a circus-y past -- what's the future of zoos? (Conservation Magazine)

Take a sip of coffee and read what's on our green news radar this Monday morning.

1. Unless severe weather strikes this summer, the U.S. expects a record corn crop. (Wall Street Journal)
2. Is there human poop in your compost? (NPR)
3. Think everyone in the developed world has easy-access to safe drinking water? Think again. (The New York Times)
4. The habitats for common plants and animals will drastically shrink this century. (Huffington Post)
5. In case you didn't see it: Amazing Google Earth time-lapse video of how we've changed the planet. (MNN)

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Moths that drive cars? Frankenfish? Goats at airports? It's news of the weird this morning!

1. Chicago's O'Hare has new landscaping employees: goats. (MNN)
2. IUCN has released a list of the world's most endangered ecosystems. (Huffington Post)
3. Frankenfish or scientific marvel? Giant GM salmon await approval in the US. (Mongabay)
4. Finally, some not-so-terrible climate change news. (Grist)
5. University of Tokyo posted a video of moths driving cars. Really. (NPR)

How would you like a tree to light your way at night, rather than a streetlight?

1. A small group of bio-tech hobbyists and entrepreneurs are starting a project to develop plants that glow. (The New York Times)
2. Could remnants from the Cold War help bats? (BBC News)
3. Looks like the new cool thing for corporations is to be innovative and sustainable. (MNN)
4. Bee colonies are still collapsing, and crops are suffering, with no definitive culprit to blame. (NPR)
5. Amazing and weird: nature's most transparent animals. (National Geographic)

Bikes shares, sea turtles and wildfires are a part of this Monday's green news.

1. Want to help fight climate change? Then don't mention it. At all. (MNN)
2. The largest bike share is about to begin in the Big Apple! (Huffington Post)
3. The US won't jump on the EU's bandwagon to ban pesticides it blames for honeybee deaths. (The Guardian)
4. Wildfires are off to an early start in California, and north of LA has been evacuated. (Bloomberg)
5. Is there a bright future for the Loggerhead sea turtles that are hatching on east coast beaches? (Science World Report)

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The green news this morning has me wanting to move to Norway.

1. Say what? They have so little garbage because folks recycle so much that yes, Oslo is importing trash. (TreeHugger)
2. The Exxon Pegasus pipeline has leaked again, this time in Missouri. (Huffington Post)
3. Who paid for the effects of the horrible drought last summer? You did. (NPR)
4. This general is back at war -- this time, fighting rhino poachers in South Africa. (Bloomberg)
5. The first county in the nation has banned all drilling and fracking. (Grist)