Africa: Curtains Fall On Climate Change Meeting in Nairobi (AllAfrica.com) The curtains finally fell on the two-week conference on climate change with rich countries resolving to help poor states tackle global warming effects in the future. [News Source]

U.S.: Climate Change Climate Changing (OneWorld.net via Yahoo! News) UNITED NATIONS, Nov 20 (OneWorld) - There are signs that key U.S. officials are ready to take on global warming, even as much of the world community failed to show its will to deal with the impending threat at a recent global conference. [News Source]

Nobel Laureates Pushing Bush to Act on Global Warming (Update1) (Bloomberg.com) Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Environmentalists concerned about global warming want the U.S. Supreme Court to turn up the heat on President George W. Bush. [News Source]

State emission credit may be hot commodity. Like gold and pork bellies, California's carbon dioxide emissions credits may someday emerge as the big thing on commodity markets. [News Source]

Finding the roots of faith. With concerns about global warming on the rise, many religious communities are joining the environmental movement. [News Source]

Fires in far northern forests to have cooling, not warming, effect. Research shows that while the carbon released by burning high-latitude forests of North America, Europe and Russia will no doubt have a warming effect, it will be less than an unexpected cooling effect. [News Source]

Don’t despair, says Gore, mood is shifting. People are caught in the headlights of the global warming crisis - so much so they are in danger of being run over, the former US vice-president Al Gore says. [News Source]

Mixed opinions on climate conference outcome. The British charity, Oxfam, said the conference had yielded little for Africa, the world's poorest continent, but the region most affected by the effects of climate change, including frequent droughts and floods. [News Source]

Slow talks could leave climate deal in ‘tatters’. A new global agreement to tackle climate change may be scuppered by cumbersome international bodies and a lack of political will, David Miliband, the Environment Secretary, fears. [News Source]

Unlikely new lawmaker rode winds of change. Scientist Jerry McNerney is just one of the underdog Democrats swept into office by voter outrage. He needs new suits, but he's already formed a climate task force. [News Source]

U.S. sees hope of U-turn on emissions. Until the recent U.S. mid-term vote, Inhofe chaired the Senate's environment committee. He adamantly, often rudely, blocked anything that hinted of action to curb climate change. [News Source]