Space maps of forests from 1990s could aid climate. Photographs taken from space can track deforestation in developing nations and could be used along with cash incentives to safeguard trees and combat global warming, experts say as quoted by Reuters. [News Source]

Oxfam blasts rich nations over climate change. The aid agency, Oxfam says rich countries have let down poorer nations as talks wrapped up at the UN conference on climate change in Nairobi over the weekend. [News Source]

Clean energy activist group presents awards. Near the end of a year when domestic awareness of global warming rose significantly, a Canton-based activist group honored organizations and individuals Saturday evening for promoting renewable energy sources and conservation in Connecticut. [News Source]

Pombos defeat kindles environmental issues. Activists savored what they called the most successful mid-term election for the environmental movement since at least 1974. [News Source]

House control shift aids autism study. Democratic control of the House changes the nation's environmental agenda and affects a related topic that has stirred strong feelings: research on autism. [News Source]

Asia-Pacific smokestacks cleaner for cheap: U.S. A U.S.-led coalition of some of the world's top-polluting nations will help clean up industries from coal-mining to steel with "minimal investments", the U.S. chief climate negotiator said. [News Source]

‘No snow in Africa’ will be true. Why these glaciers are melting, and how they can be saved, are questions casting shadows on a UN climate change summit under way in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. [News Source]

Merkel demands US share the burden on climate protection.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday that Berlin would make the fight against global warming a centerpiece of its European Union presidency and press the United States to join the effort.

Ethical questions add new twist to climate-change debate. The efforts to reduce greenhouse gases, call not only for the best scientific data and economic analyses, but also for explicit consideration of the ethical issues involved. [News Source]

Climate warming ’seesaws’ between the poles. Researchers trying to understand sudden, seesawing changes in the Arctic's prehistoric climate have found some answers in an unusual place: buried in the Antarctic ice, half a world away. [News Source]

New sermon from the evangelical pulpit: global warming. As a deeply committed pastor, the Rev. Gerald Durley had long thought of himself as enlightened and involved when it came to issues that hurt people's lives until, he says, he saw the film "The Great Warming" last May. [News Source]