Futuristic ‘MonoMobile’ inventors ride into Dayton. The concept electric car called the Liberator drives on roads using battery power, then could hook to an overhead track for longer travel - the MonoMobile- allowing the battery to recharge while the driver relaxes or works. [News Source]

Government puts carbon capture on fast track. The government has stepped up the pace of change in the battle against global warming by announcing a shortlist of bidders for its carbon capture and storage demonstration project and outlining a proposed new legislative framework for "clean coal". [News Source]

Insurers criticized for new rate models. Scientists say the jury is still out on whether rising sea temperatures will cause more hurricanes to hit U.S. coastlines. Yet some insurance companies are boosting premiums based on assumptions that they will. Others are withdrawing from coastal communities altogether. [News Source]

Grasslands face severe desertification despite protection. China grasslands are still suffering severe desertification despite government funding of more than 10 billion yuan($144 million) in the past eight years to protect and restore them, an agricultural official said on Monday. [News Source]

Antarctica slides with daily ‘quakes’. The earthquakes that rocked the St. Louis area in April are mere hiccups compared to the massive earth rattlers that a Washington University professor and his colleagues have detected from a river of ice in Antarctica. [News Source]

Crustaceans, squid found where once there were fish. Researchers are pointing fingers at global warming again, saying it has caused dramatic shifts in some aquatic communities in which fish populations die off and crabs, lobsters and squid take over. [News Source]

Penguins seen as ‘canaries in climate coal mine’ The 200,000 Magellanic penguins from the Punta Tombo colony on the Atlantic coast of Argentina have become the canaries in the global warming "coal mine," signaling the effects of climate change on oceans through their rapidly declining population. [News Source]

Bangladesh wants SAARC fund for climate change. Bangladesh has proposed the creation a fund to fight climate change in densely populated South Asia, which experts say is vulnerable to rising seas, melting glaciers and greater extremes of droughts and floods. [News Source]

Oregon utility rates expected to climb in the next few years. Customers will likely see higher bills as PGE and NW Natural face growing demand and surging costs for fuel and climate mandates. [News Source]

Bovine growth hormone ‘could cut CO2 emissions’. The use of bovine growth hormone to boost milk production could cut emissions of greenhouses gases substantially, according to a study that makes a strong environmental case for the controversial cattle injections. [News Source]

Global carbon price needed, Shell says. The capture and storage of carbon dioxide to reduce emissions can only work if the market for the greenhouse gas becomes global, the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell PLC said Monday. [News Source]