Big conference on warming ends, achieving modest results. The UN conference on climate change ended Friday without establishing a timetable for future cuts in greenhouse pollutants. [News Source]

Global warming taking a grave turn (Financial Express) FRIGHTENING lack of leadership is a major cause for global warming, said the retiring UN Secretary General Kofi Anan addressing a gathering on climate change in Nairobi the other day. Poor people particularly in Africa bear the brunt of rising temperature. [News Source]

Congress set to take a new view of global warming. Nowhere is the shift of control in last week’s US mid-term elections more dramatic than in the influential Senate environment committee. [News Source]

Polar bear survival rate falls as climate warms. Polar bear cubs off Alaska are much less likely to survive compared to 20 years ago, a new study claims. [News Source]

Nairobi climate talks. At the latest world meeting on confronting climate change, environment ministers prioritized helping poor countries who are on the frontlines of global warming. But there was not much progress on the key issue of limiting emissions from the powerhouse countries. [News Source]

TXU details plan to cut emissions. TXU on Friday revealed the first details of how it plans to cut emissions by 20 percent while building 11 new coal-burning power units. [News Source]

Boxer sets agenda on environment. It wouldn't be an overstatement to say that the future of federal environmental policy lies in the hands of Barbara Boxer. The Democratic senator from California is slated to become the chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. [News Source]

Party shift may make warming a D.C. priority. Dramatic changes in congressional oversight of environmental issues may pump new life into efforts to fight global warming. [News Source]

Climate conference moves forward without US. The UN climate conference ended Friday with agreement on the next steps toward negotiating future cuts, a slow-paced timetable reflecting hope that the US, China and other outsiders will eventually join the controls regime. [News Source]

Talk of manipulating Earth’s climate. The idea seems like something out of a Superman comic: A machine or missile shoots tons of particles into the atmosphere that would block the sun's rays, cool down the overheated Earth, and reverse global warming. [News Source]

Green dreams. Until recently, Silicon Valley did not take much interest in the alternative use of its principal raw material, silicon. That has changed as California's entrepreneurs are piling into clean-energy technology. [News Source]