Cities taking lead in climate-change fight. Cities are on the cutting edge when it comes to investing in renewable energy. [News Source]

Climate change brings new options for UK farming (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Climate change provides many new opportunities for British farmers, like tea and energy crops, but also poses challenges including the threat of new insects and diseases, a British government minister said. [News Source]

A Bright Idea: How Changing Light Bulbs Helps Beat Global Warming (and Cut Bills) (Common Dreams News Center) A Bright Idea: How Changing Light Bulbs Helps Beat Global Warming (and Cut Bills) [News Source]

CBI boss faces climate change task (BBC News) Richard Lambert, the new head of the CBI, highlights climate change as a major challenge as he starts his new role. [News Source]

Confidence in ability to control weather dries up. China says its scientists make enough rain to fill the Yellow River; Moscow claims credit for sunshine for Red Square parades -- but confidence in other nations that humans can alter the weather has almost dried up. [News Source]

A bright idea: How changing light bulbs helps beat global warming (and cut bills). The low-energy light bulb and other efficient lighting systems could prevent a cumulative total of 16 billion tons of carbon from being added to the world's atmosphere over the next 25 years, according to a report by the International Energy Agency. [News Source]

Global warming affecting Scottish birds? A survey of Scottish birds finds that global warming may be having an effect, with some once-common birds moving north. [News Source]

Green fears grow as Britons binge on gadgets. Fear of the catastrophic consequences of global warming is finally prompting Britons to start changing their lifestyles, a survey said on Monday. [News Source]

Climate change may not benefit crops. Increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide may not be as helpful to crops as previously thought, according to a new study. [News Source]

Hurricane warning of $100bn loss. Insurers can expect to lose up to $100bn (£55bn) from the next hurricane to hit Florida after a surge in property values, according to Lloyd's of London. [News Source]

UK’s largest biofuels plant now at 58 pct capacity. Biofuels Corp plc. said on Friday its plant to produce biodiesel from vegetable oils, the largest in Britain, reached 58 percent capacity this month. [News Source]