China calls for action on climate change (AAP via Yahoo!7 News) Rich nations should alter their lifestyles to help tackle global warming, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said at the start of a two-day meeting on climate change. [News Source]

EU Energy Remedy for Africa May Jumpstart Global-Warming Talks (Bloomberg) Nov. 7 (Bloomberg) -- A deadlock in international global warming negotiations may be snapped with help from a surprise proposal by the European Union to share renewable-energy technologies with African nations. [News Source]

EU Energy Remedy for Africa May Jumpstart Global-Warming Talks (Bloomberg) Nov. 7 (Bloomberg) -- A deadlock in international global warming negotiations may be snapped with help from a surprise proposal by the European Union to share renewable-energy technologies with African nations. [News Source]

Might Obama anoint a ‘climate czar’?

Environmental groups see Barack Obama’s victory as a chance to undo the Bush legacy on global warming, and one idea they are discussing is the idea of a White House “climate czar”.

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The dirty side of ‘clean’ coal. Larry Gibson's land was once a low hill in a rugged hardwood forest. Then the coal miners came with their dynamite and their trucks, blowing the tops off neighboring ridges and pushing hundreds of feet of mountains into the valleys below. [News Source]

Obama victory signals rebirth of US environmental policy. President-elect Obama will shred the Bush administration's energy policies and introduce a major climate change bill in an attempt to bring the US back into the international environment fold according to his senior advisers. [News Source]

Taking on King Coal. The future of coal will dictate the future of the climate, and environmentalists are fighting new plants with every weapon in their arsenal. [News Source]

Ottawa swoops in with climate-change offer. Less than 24 hours after the election of Barack Obama, Canadian cabinet ministers begin calling for a pact that would keep emissions down while protecting Alberta's oil sands projects. [News Source]

Voters narrowly approve high-speed rail bond. California voters are green-lighting the nation's most ambitious high-speed rail system, approving a nearly $10 billion bond to speed bullet trains capable of topping 200 mph between the state's major metropolitan areas. [News Source]

Massive cleanup continues long after Hurricane Ike. Hurricane Ike produced a staggering amount of debris, and it may take months for Galveston, Houston and coastal parishes in Louisiana to dispose of what some say is record destruction waste. [News Source]

Climate change to hit electricity, dams, footpaths. All forms of infrastructure in Australia including electricity, dams, roads and even footpaths will be severely affected by climate change, a new report has found. [News Source]