German expert praises China’s will to tackle climate change (People’s Daily) China's newly-released white paper on climate change demonstrates that China has a strong "political will" to tackle global warming, said Miranda Schreurs, a German professor on climate policy. "Developed countries have a historical responsibility for climate change and they should take the lead and I think that's actually pretty well accepted by Europe, Canada, Australia and the United States ... [News Source]

A last push to deregulate. The White House is working to enact a wide array of federal regulations, many of which would weaken government rules aimed at protecting consumers and the environment, before President Bush leaves office in January. [News Source]

Polar warming ’caused by humans’. The rise in temperatures at Earth's poles has for the first time been attributed directly to human activities, according to a study. [News Source]

State of the Arab environment 2008: A lot has been achieved, but much more is still needed. Global warming compounds the critical situation now facing the Arab environment, according to a new report by the Arab Forum for Environment and Development. [News Source]

Climate change to help short-lived creatures. Climate change is likely to disrupt food chains by favoring animals with short lifespans over often bigger rivals that are worse at tolerating temperature swings, scientists said on Thursday. [News Source]

Are rising sea levels a bigger threat here than hurricanes? Hilton Head Island's deputy director of community development warns that rising sea levels threatens area beaches with erosion now, a problem many simply don't recognize. [News Source]

Expert: Amazon may lose 50 pct of tree species. Global warming could kill off half of the tree species in Brazil's vast Amazon jungle by 2050, a leading international climate change expert said Wednesday. [News Source]

World without frogs: combined threats may croak amphibians. New evidence shows that the herbicide atrazine—widely sprayed on crop fields throughout the region—is killing the frogs by helping the parasitic worms that feast on them. [News Source]

China hopes for step-by-step progress of low carbon economy. Developing the Low Carbon Economy (LCE), a strategic option to cope with global warming, should follow a step-by-step pattern in accordance with a country's situation, China's Vice Environment Minister Zhou Jian said here Thursday. [News Source]

Climate ideas put under spotlight. From the twilight zone of science fiction, the idea of "geo-engineering" is emerging into the harsher daylight of science fact - and I'm going to risk the prediction that we'll hear a lot more about it in the coming years. [News Source]

Engineering climate change. Britain's de-facto academy of sciences said on Thursday it is launching a major study into geo-engineering, the term covering a variety of weird and wonderful ideas for the fight against climate change. [News Source]