Siberian heatwave brings chilling warning. Siberia is basking in its warmest November for 70 years, putting its permafrost, wildlife and even the human population at risk. [News Source]

EU seeks deadline on rich-nation emission targets.

The European Union is seeking a deadline today from industrialized nations gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, to fix greenhouse gas emission targets after the Kyoto Protocol compliance period running for the five years through 2012.

U.N. climate talks struggle to agree tiny steps. Global talks to widen a fight against climate change reached gridlock on their final day on Friday after scant progress overnight to encourage rich nations to help Africa. [News Source]

‘Africa needs to adapt to weather changes’. Delegates from 189 countries attending the 12th session of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Nairobi, due to wrap on Friday, have been grappling with ways to help African countries adapt to the effects of climate change. [News Source]

False alarm: Atlantic conveyor belt hasn’t slowed down after all. A closer look at the Atlantic Ocean's currents has confirmed what many oceanographers suspected all along: There's no sign that the ocean's heat-laden "conveyor" is slowing. [News Source]

U.S. stance on emission limits is `hard to understand,’ EU says . The reluctance of the administration of President George W. Bush to agree to cap U.S. greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming is difficult to comprehend, said European Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas. [News Source]

African lake’s iconic birds are vanishing. Clouds of pink flamingos rising on a million wings in generations of tourist photographs are dying and flying off--fleeing a seemingly fatal brew of environmental threats in a shrinking Lake Nakuru, their home for uncounted centuries. [News Source]

US group aims to help shipping industry go ‘green.’ International and US efforts to reduce greenhouse gas output have yet to target emissions from transport, the second-largest source of the gases. Now a Maryland-based nonprofit helps the industry to reduce its global warming burden. [News Source]

Pushing bankers on climate change. Developing countries will need $10 trillion in energy investments from here to 2030, the International Energy Agency estimates. The global warming nightmare is that those trillions will be spent on low efficiency, high pollution technology. [News Source]

California plots greenhouse-gas strategy. California's legislature has left it up to California's Air Resources Board to determine whether and how to use emissions trading. CARB hopes to set a national example. [News Source]

Global warming: Tibet’s lofty glaciers melt away. Ice fields on the roof of the world are disappearing faster than anyone thought, new research shows, as global warming speeds up the shrinkage of more than 80 per cent of the 46,377 glaciers on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau. [News Source]