New Orleans repeating deadly levee blunders. Signs are emerging that history is repeating itself in the Big Easy, still healing from Katrina: People have forgotten a lesson from four decades ago and believe once again that the federal government is constructing a levee system they can prosper behind. [News Source]

World Bank increases fossil-fuel funding despite pledge. A year after World Bank President Robert Zoellick pledged to "significantly step up our assistance" in fighting climate change, the development institution is increasing its financing of fossil-fuel projects around the globe. [News Source]

Sierra climate change puts range’s species on the run. Jim Patton, a retired professor of zoology at UC Berkeley, had his quarry: the tiny ash-gray alpine chipmunk, a Sierra Nevada native that is now one of the leading sentinels – and apparent victims – of climate change in the United States. [News Source]

Beauty spots to be devoured by sea. Some of Britain's most famous coastal landmarks will be radically changed or even lost because it is no longer possible to hold back rising seas and coastal erosion, according to the National Trust. [News Source]

Africa to pay for Europe’s “buy local” campaigns. In efforts to make quick and symbolic gains in Europe's otherwise failed policies to curb climate gas emissions, environmental and anti-globalisation politicians are aiming at Africa's few economic success stories: Exports. [News Source]

Chinese build new highway to “lost” Kenya. Residents of some African nations complain that China is undertaking a second colonisation by focusing on Africa's resources and dumping its cheapest goods there. [News Source]

Talking about the future of Mother Earth. At this year’s Indigenous Environmental Network conference held in Nevada, attendants from indigenous nations of the United States and Canada discussed energy and climate change as it affects indigenous peoples. [News Source]

10 polar bears are seen swimming in open water. Two federal officials confirmed that an unusually large number of polar bears were seen off the northern coast of Alaska recently. Rising temperatures have melted much of the ice platform on which they live and hunt for seals, making bear sightings more common. [News Source]

New rays of hope for solar power’s future. As the first commercial "concentrating solar power" or CSP plant built in 17 years, Nevada Solar One marks the reemergence and updating of a decades-old technology that could play a large new role in US power production, many observers say. [News Source]

Lawmakers aim to cut global warming by limiting sprawl. In what many observers are calling the most significant environmental bill of this year's state legislative session, builders and environmentalists have found a compromise they hope will limit global warming by changing where homes are built. [News Source]

Vision of energy expands. Scouring the Earth for new sources of clean, renewable energy, scientists and engineers are exploring some unusual nooks and crannies. [News Source]