State ‘failing to grasp’ urgency of climate change. The head of a new expert panel on climate change has criticised the State Government's performance in cutting greenhouse emissions, arguing that senior ministers fail to comprehend the scope and urgency of the problem. [News Source]

Long-term solutions needed to counter global warming. Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Friday said that long-term solutions were needed to deal with the problems of global warming and climate change. [News Source]

Beijing smog report: How bad? To Veerabhadran Ramanathan, an atmospheric scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, the Summer Olympics are just a sideshow to the real excitement: air pollution studies. [News Source]

Governor’s plan for Honeywell money slammed. A state utility regulator said a $1 million pollution fine paid by Honeywell International Inc. should go to help the community most harmed, not to a regional "cap and trade" program aimed at cutting greenhouse gases. [News Source]

Pop chirp bite crunch chew. The ultrasonic din of dying trees inspires a new kind of research to save forests from beetle attacks — and battle climate change. [News Source]

If not oil, should we drill for natural gas off Jersey’s shore? The specter of an oil spill ruining New Jersey beaches is keeping state officials from even considering the potential benefits of what could be vast supplies of natural gas discovered nearly three decades ago about 90 miles off Atlantic City. [News Source]

Farms in Brazil and India must adapt or roast in heat. Farmers in Brazil and India may suffer less from climate change than previously assumed – if they can continue to adapt to hotter weather. [News Source]

Acid ocean imperils more than shells. Rising ocean acidity could reduce fertilization of marine invertebrates and might eventually wipe out colonies of sea urchins, lobsters, mussels and oysters, according to a study. [News Source]

Palo Alto teen launches climate change nonprofit. The 'Inconvenient Youth' group trains high schoolers to be global warming activists as part of a campaign founded by 17-year-old Mary Doerr. [News Source]

Carnegie researchers develop new method to counter greenhouse gas emissions. Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new method that estimates the amount of greenhouse gas emissions across all tiers of the entire supply chain for all industries. [News Source]

The old motor roars back. The internal combustion engine is more than 100 years old, but it still has a future. [News Source]