The Republican Party might have crafted its "greenest" political platform four years ago, leading some party strategists to predict that this year's guiding document will likely retreat on key environmental issues such as climate change. The wordsmithing now under way will create perhaps 50 pages of carefully enumerated principles that describe the priorities of a party with Mitt Romney at its helm. Go to story #1

HAMPTON COURT PALACE, England -- First it was birds and now it is bees that are finding their numbers under increasing pressure from sources as diverse as habitat loss, insecticide use and changing weather patterns. While many in the bird world are convinced that climate change is a major culprit for altering flowering times and therefore the relative abundance or lack of food sources, in the somewhat fustier apiarian world, the jury is out. Many, though, are willing to allow that climate change is likely to be a factor. Go to story #2