Pollution forces Hong Kong firms to up expatriates pay. More than half of Hong Kong-based companies have been forced to improve their offers to expatriates put off by rising pollution, a new survey said Monday. [News Source]

Use of green ghost money on the rise in Taipei County. Residents of Taipei County in Taiwan burned a total of 950 tonnes of ghost money at environmentally friendly centralized facilities in the seventh lunar month of this year, according to county officials. [News Source]

Moscow supplies only a fraction of its own oxygen. Moscow, a city with about 11 million permanent residents, can itself produce only 10% of the oxygen it needs, a wildlife protection center expert said Monday. [News Source]

Economics of energy. The combination of high gas prices, advancing technology and Arkansas's variety of crops could bring the ethanol industry to the state. [News Source]

GOP tackles climate change. Eskew is one of three former advisors to Republican Gov. Carroll Campbell hired by Environmental Defense to map strategy for stemming global warming. [News Source]

Trees under the influence of ozone and CO2. In northern Wisconsin, they're finding that gasses such as carbon dioxide and ozone will change the makeup of what survives in a future forest. [News Source]

New program encourages students to walk or bike to school. A new program announced this summer by the Ohio Department of Transportation should help reduce the traffic congestion around schools and increase safety. [News Source]

The worlds greatest green inventions. Is it possible to go shopping with a clear conscience? Can environmentally sound products still be objects of desire? [News Source]

Greenhouse gas plan may waft across U.S. If history is any guide, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's pioneering plan to cap industrial greenhouse gases promises to enlist other states and, perhaps, the entire country in the fight to slow global warming. [News Source]

Tree-planting drive seeks to bring a new urban cool. Sacramento believes an answer for global warming is growing on trees. [News Source]

Big environmental case on Supreme Court docket . This fall, the US Supreme Court considers its most important environmental case in recent history, on whether the EPA should regulate greenhouse gases. [News Source]