Boston, MA, April 5, 2007 - Responding to the growing public interest in global warming, The Christian Science Monitor has launched a new long-term initiative to focus greater coverage on the causes and effects of global warming and its impact on climate change. This coverage will appear both in the Monitor's daily newspaper and online at www.csmonitor.com/globalwarming/.

The Monitor intends to be a key source for all wishing to better understand global warming and will offer original content on climate change, resources for understanding the latest scientific research on the topic, and suggestions on how individuals can alter their habits to prevent global warming and greenhouse effect.

"Our website, in particular, improves the way that the Monitor can help readers understand a subject that for many years has been a source of confusion and contention, but is now recognized as an issue that demands attention from everyone," said Monitor Editor Richard Bergenheim when speaking about the Monitor's commitment to global warming coverage. "We want to help people understand what steps can be taken to mitigate effects of global warming and how we can adapt to climate change."

As part of its global warming coverage, the Monitor will begin a new series on adaptation that will examine how people are coping with climate changes that have already altered how people live. The first report on Thursday, April 5, will examine how individuals are adapting to water-related challenges caused by changing weather patterns.

Every Thursday, the Monitor publishes in print and online a Weekly Media Survey, a synopsis of global warming-related issues and events.

In addition to offering links to all its coverage of global warming, the Monitor's global warming website, www.csmonitor.com/globalwarming, will expand in the coming weeks to offer slide shows, audio and video reports, charts, graphs, interactive options, and a myriad of links to global warming resources.

Visitors to the Monitor's website can sign-up for a free weekly e-newsletter on the environment.

Other topics addressed will include: causes of global warming; effects of global warming; global warming myths; global warming prevention; greenhouse effect; greenhouse gases; an inconvenient truth; pollution; and reports such as the UN IPCC report on climate change.