Butterfly expert’s work part of new kid’s book on climate change (The News & Advance) ‘It is very comprehensive on many of the problems associated with global warming.’ - Lincoln Brower, Research biologist and expert on Monarch butterflies [News Source]

David Suzuki: Canadians must take personal responsibility for climate change (The Georgia Straight) Canada earned the dubious honour of winning the Colossal Fossil award at the climate change talks in Poland for doing more than any other country to impede progress. [News Source]

Airing a threat: Group fights coal plant expansion. Tulsa is already chagrined by the "F" it received on the American Lung Association test for ozone and air pollution. And it's unclear what the impact would be if one of the world's largest power providers builds a second coal-fired plant in this tiny Oklahoma town. [News Source]

The curse of carbon. Most people can appreciate the seriousness of rising sea levels. Much harder to grasp are most of the other consequences of global warming--and especially of the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. [News Source]

A survey of the sea: Plenty more fish in the sea? The sea is still deep, and fish may still be relatively cheap. But it costs much more than it used to--and is far from plentiful. Technology has made the elusive and inexhaustible into easy prey. [News Source]

The mystery of Antarctica’s speeding glacier. The 30 trillion litres of the Pine Island Glacier are melting far faster than the rest of the western Antarctic. Now a British team are sending a robot submarine under the ice to discover precisely why. [News Source]

4ft sea level rise by 2100-2013 threatened destinations include Manhattan, Maldives. According to a new report led by the U.S. Geological Survey, we "face the possibility of much more rapid climate change than previous studies have suggested." [News Source]

Study questions climate change. Sheffield University experts have discovered that the intensity of wind storms around the British Isles has not increased due to global warming. [News Source]

Polar bears in western Arctic going hungry. A blue-ribbon panel of experts under contract with the survey predicted that two-thirds of the world's polar bears — including all of those in Alaska and most of Canada's western Arctic — will be gone by 2050. [News Source]

Senegal: forecasting the future in an erratic climate. Now many traditional methods are becoming increasingly unreliable predictors of the weather due to climate variability, and African farmers already facing fluctuations need scientific data to help them adapt, farmers and climate experts say. [News Source]

The challenges for agriculture. Over the next 20 years the outlook for the UK farming sector is good but it is facing a number of challenges. [News Source]