Cockroach King reigns as pest-killers discuss climate change (AFP via Yahoo! News) More than 100 of Southeast Asia's hardiest bugs measured up this week in Bangkok, where experts met to discuss new ways of controlling the pests, which they say are a major contributor to global warming. [News Source]

Green fuel for the airline industry. If airlines are to have any chance of staying aloft in a post-peak, carbon-rationed world, they must quickly find an alternative fuel with low emissions that also matches the stiff technical standards of jet kerosene. [News Source]

Invent our way out of crisis. As the emissions trading scheme that is to be the centrepiece of Australian climate policy is whittled away from all sides, the earlier warnings of critics are looking increasingly prophetic. [News Source]

State begins slow squeeze on emitters. The state's top 232 greenhouse polluters, ranging from Bluescope Steel to the Sydney Opera House, will be forced to cut their emissions from this year under new energy-efficiency laws. [News Source]

Leave your carbon footprint at the door. A North Carolina couple aims for a 'carbon free' home and offers a do-it-yourselfer's guide to cutting household fossil-fuel consumption. [News Source]

Calif signs climate pact with Mexican states, PG&E, Registry. California, six Mexican states, PG&E Corp. and the California Climate Action Registry signed an agreement Friday to cooperate on efforts to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. [News Source]

Save the planet? Buy it. Millionaires are purchasing entire ecosystems around the world and turning them into conservation areas. Their goal? To stop environmental catastrophe. [News Source]

Researchers feed algae carbon dioxide, sewage to increase oil production. Pond scum could someday provide abundant clean, green renewable fuel for America's vehicles. [News Source]

Forest defenders target snack foods, cosmetics. Indonesia's tropical forests, considered some of the world's great carbon sinks and hence a solid source of defense in the fight against global warming, are disappearing at the rate of 2.5 million acres every year due to clear cutting to make way for palm oil plantations. [News Source]

Speaker tells miners that humans causing global warming is bunk. An aide to Sen. Orrin Hatch used the friendly confines of the Utah Mining Association's annual convention Thursday to extol oil shale development and to dismiss global warming concerns. [News Source]

Three sectors eyed for cuts in CO2. At a key meeting in Africa next week, Japan will propose classifying industries and other activities into three sectors as part of international standards on reducing greenhouse gases, sources said. [News Source]