Mexico tourism boom kills coral quicker than climate change. Coral in areas such as Chitales, near the northern tip of a Caribbean reef chain stretching from Mexico to Honduras, are dying as people and cities put more stress on the environment. [News Source]

Threat to world’s biggest glacier. The latest report from the Icelandic government's Committee on Climate Change warns that by the next century, Iceland's glaciers will have all but disappeared, adding to the threat of catastrophic sea level rise. [News Source]

Farmers can cut carbon, if payments are right. The most widely supported proposal in Congress to control global warming would create a cap-and-trade system that would reward farmers who take steps to reduce emissions from fields and livestock operations. [News Source]

Financial crisis darkens outlook for climate talks. Wall Street's sickness and its contagiousness for the world economy are bad news for the already faltering effort to craft a new pact to tackle climate change. But so far the crisis does not appear to be impacting investment in clean technology. [News Source]

The price of being green. The next president will need to lay out a long-term strategy to both secure reliable supplies of energy and address global warming. The conundrum is that any plan to address global warming would, almost by definition, make gasoline and electricity more expensive. [News Source]

Climate change not a hot topic in South Africa. More than a quarter of South Africans have not heard about climate change, while only very few know either "a lot" or "a fair amount" about the subject. [News Source]

Gordon Brown urged to pay millions to stop oil firms destroying Amazon rainforest. Leaders of indigenous tribes in the Amazon, some of whom have had no contact with the outside world, will call on the UK to back a plan to stop vast areas of the rainforest being destroyed by oil companies. [News Source]

Ecologists fear EU diluting climate change battle plans. European Union plans to tackle climate change reach a crucial phase on Tuesday with votes in the EU parliament, amid fears among green groups that pressure from industry is watering the proposals down. [News Source]

Chinese official: challenges ahead in peaceful use of nuclear energy. The international community has to pay greater attention to the challenges facing the rapidly growing civil nuclear projects, Chen Qiufa, director of Chinese Atomic Energy Agency, said in a recent interview with Xinhua. [News Source]

Farmers change focus from shrimp to algae fuel. The body weight of many strains of algae is more than half oil, which can be refined to biodiesel that can be burned in diesel engines. [News Source]

Green power more complex than it seems. If you're willing to pay American Electric Power another $15 a month, the company will make sure all of the electricity that flows into your house comes from a wind farm in Illinois or Indiana. [News Source]