Senators unveil bipartisan energy plan. In a possible breakthrough on energy, a bipartisan group of senators unveiled a compromise Friday that would preserve the oil-drilling ban off the West Coast while easing restrictions on exploration off the East Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico. [News Source]

Building a greener America. Fuming tailpipes and industrial smokestacks, it turns out, are less culpable for climate change than a set of offenders hidden in plain sight: buildings. [News Source]

Tiny particles could soon be fueling ‘clean tech’ industry. Environmentalists and nanotechnology haven't always been soulmates. [News Source]

Flowers are still here, but where have all the bees gone? In recent years, honey bees have begun to mysteriously vanish from their hives. [News Source]

The climate change smokescreen. Global warming scepticism is being manipulated by tactics reminiscient of an earlier campaign of denial, in which the aim wasn't to prove tobacco harmless but instead simply to cast doubt on the science. [News Source]

US government aims to tame hurricanes. With winds that rip apart buildings and can produce more power than a nuclear bomb, it would seem humans can do little against the devastating force of a hurricane. [News Source]

Melting ice threatens national park in Canada’s Arctic. A combination of melting permafrost and erosion means part of Baffin Island's Auyuittuq National Park will remain shut until geologists can examine the damage. [News Source]

Climate change, melting Arctic clearly linked: study. A provocative new study of the record-setting Arctic thaw that's unlocking the Northwest Passage and transforming Canada's polar frontier has, for the first time, drawn a clear connection between rising global carbon pollution and the retreat of sea ice. [News Source]

Arctic ice continues to thin. Santa is skating on very thin ice. In 2007 the sea ice at the North Pole was at its thinnest since records began. [News Source]

Record heat, flooding force Arctic park closure. Global climate change may have led to factors behind the partial closure of one of Canada's Arctic parks, says Parks Canada. [News Source]

Climate change puts seniors’ health at risk. Canada's elderly population -- expected to double in the next 25 years --will be especially hard-hit by the dire effects of climate change, warns a sprawling study by Health Canada. [News Source]