World-First Climate Change Deal From Bell Gully’s (Scoop.co.nz) Saving rare rhinos and valuable forests is not your everyday kiwi lawyers' job, but for Bell Gully's climate change team they're concluding a world-first deal in the tsunami-struck Indonesian province of Aceh, legal newswire LawFuel.co.nz reports. [News Source]

NASA helps fight global warming (KGO-TV Bay Area) A look at the aerial laboratory NASA is using to fight global warming. [News Source]

Dr. James Hansen: Twenty Years Later: Tipping Points Near on Global Warming (HuffingtonPost) Today, I testified to Congress about global warming, 20 years after I first alerted the public that warming was underway. There are striking similarities between then and now, but one big difference. [News Source]

Nation’s Spies Say Climate Change Could Spark War (Wired News) Environmental groups have been warning for years that global climate change could make already-tense parts of the world even worse, and even spark whole new conflicts. Now, in a classified national document, the nation's spies are saying pretty much the same thing. [News Source]

Kate Sheppard: James Hansen’s testimony on climate change should be a wake-up call to Congress (Guardian Unlimited) Kate Sheppard: James Hansen's testimony on climate change has made him a celebrity, but it sadly hasn't done much to influence Congress [News Source]

Obama’s campaign closely linked with ethanol. At a time when energy policy is a point of sharp contrast between the candidates, Barack Obama has advisers with close ties to the ethanol industry. [News Source]

Years later, climatologist renews his call for action. Twenty years after turning climate change into breaking news, James E. Hansen will tell a House committee on Monday that it is not too late to defuse what he calls the “global warming time bomb.” [News Source]

Green begins to fade. Canada's corporate executives have cooled in their enthusiasm for carbon taxes or "cap-and-trade" systems, as high oil prices and economic concerns make them leery of policies that will boost the cost of doing business. [News Source]

Mediterranean resorts menaced as stinging jellyfish arrive early. For the eighth successive year, the resorts of the north Mediterranean coast are threatened by a monstrous-looking primeval creature from the depths, the jellyfish. [News Source]

Starving fish killing Great Barrier Reef. Starving fish are killing sections of the Great Barrier Reef already weakened by climate change, an Australian scientist says. And some fish species also face extinction - with potentially serious consequences for commercial fisheries. [News Source]

Capturing carbon. It sounds too good to be true: a technology that reacts carbon dioxide with other molecules, locking it into a polymer backbone and putting it to better use than as an atmosphere-warming gas. [News Source]