AFP - Polluters releasing more than their share of the so-called greenhouse gases responsible for global warming would be slapped with fines under a plan unveiled Friday by opposition Liberals.

AP - Former Vice President Al Gore has collected nearly 300,000 electronic signatures asking Congress to take action on global warming, Gore said in an entry on his Web site Friday. Gore said the signatures demonstrate "that hundreds of thousands of people share my sense of urgency" on climate change. Gore is scheduled to testify before Congress about the issue Wednesday.

AP - JetBlue canceled nearly three-fourths of all scheduled flights across the country Friday — most in the New York area — because of a winter storm on the East Coast. Aiming to avoid criticism about persistent delays and problems that followed a storm last month, the discount airline had canceled about 400 of its 550 flights by mid-afternoon.

Reuters - Big U.S. airlines and their affiliates canceled more than 2,000 flights on Friday as a late-winter storm hit the Northeast's biggest cities, airline and government officials said.

AP - The Bush administration will examine whether a growing number of species, including polar bears affected by thinning sea ice, are at risk from global warming and need federal protection, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said Friday.

AFP - A United Nations bird flu conference will take place this month in Italy charged with implementing a global strategy for the vaccination of threatened species, organisers said Friday.

Reuters - Canada's energy industry would have to cut its carbon emissions by up to 46 percent or pay billions of dollars a year in penalties under a climate change plan by the opposition Liberal Party.