Coastal village living on the edge. Campaigners in Happisburgh, Norfolk - one of England's coastal villages at most immediate risk of destruction because of rising sea levels - are demanding more help for their community. [News Source]

New Zealand glaciers continue to shrink. The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research said the Southern Alps glaciers had lost 2.2 billion tonnes of permanent ice from April 2007 to March this year, the fourth-highest annual loss since monitoring started. [News Source]

Grasshoppers are recruited as climate change scouts. Grasshoppers, along with bush crickets, have been identified as the ideal insects for a public monitoring system in Britain. [News Source]

Paying to pollute. How effective has a cap-and-trade approach been in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions? How will the costs affect consumers and companies? [News Source]

Renewable energy may dim if tax break ends. From large-scale wind farms to solar panels on homes, schools and businesses, the renewable-energy industry is experiencing rapid growth in Wisconsin and elsewhere. [News Source]

Carbon traders compete in potentially lucrative market. There's 30 billion U.S. dollars floating in the air over China, but it won't be easy to grab it. It's China's carbon trading market. [News Source]

Making money from trading emissions. There's $30 billion floating in the air over China, but it won't be easy to grab it. It's China's carbon trading market. [News Source]

Motorists taxed on car efficiency by 2010. Motorists could be taxed for driving pollution-pumping vehicles under a Federal Government plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions from one of the fastest-growing sources of carbon pollution in Australia. [News Source]

The big push. The U.K. is one of Europe's low-carbon laggards. In the European Union, only Malta and Luxembourg generate less of their energy from renewable resources. Until recently, the U.K. hasn't had a pressing need to think green. [News Source]

Old-growth forests remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, helping to curb the greenhouse gases that drive global warming. Primary forests in temperate and sub arctic regions of the northern hemisphere are not protected by international treaties, and do not figure in climate change negotiations [News Source]

Investors press for disclosure of tar sands’ climate risk. A UK investment trust has teamed up with US and Canadian fund managers to halt Wall Street financial regulators softening the rules on tar sands, arguing that new rules should take account of the carbon impact of reserves disclosed by oil and gas companies. [News Source]