Daffodils defy Devon’s big freeze. According to gardening experts with the National Trust at Killerton, England the daffs are defying the weather and flowering weeks earlier than nature intended. [News Source]

If you think it’s hot now, wait until next year. NSW was bracing for a heatwave today as the Australian Bureau of Meteorology published its annual report showing last year to be one of the hottest on record and predicting more scorching temperatures this summer. [News Source]

Industrial injection. For more than a decade, Exxon Mobil scientists have been injecting a dense, gooey, liquefied gas carbon-dioxide mixture -- the unmarketable by-product of fossil fuel exploration -- more than three miles deep into the rock beneath southwest Wyoming. [News Source]

More abused than used. The sea is hideously polluted. Over 60m litres of oil run off America’s streets and find their way into the oceans each year. Even more alarming is the plague of plastic. But the sea can be harnessed for energy, and to store carbon. [News Source]

US agricultural carbon credit market evolving. The main U.S. market for greenhouse gas credits will soon impose new rules designed to bolster the credibility of the carbon credits it sells. [News Source]

R.I. agrees to develop low-carbon fuel rules. Rhode Island and 10 other Northeast states have agreed to develop a regional low-carbon fuel standard to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks. [News Source]

Electricity supplier to reduce emissions. Platte River Power Authority is the first utility in the state to commit to the Colorado Climate Action Plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. [News Source]

Tees conference to focus on climate change. Middlesbrough, England’s second major climate change conference will aim to help local authorities across England tackle global warming. [News Source]

Space elevators needed for space solar power? It might sound like the piling of one unlikely science fiction idea on top of another - but the small band of enthusiasts who believe machines called space elevators could one day become a reality say their technology could one day save the planet. [News Source]

Failed: Holyrood misses green building targets. Public buildings run by the Scottish Government have failed miserably to achieve acceptable standards of energy efficiency, The Scotsman can reveal. [News Source]

Our coal blamed in letter to Obama. Australia's miners have slammed a leading NASA scientist for warning US president-elect Barack Obama that Australia's coal exports are contributing to the earth's destruction, saying he has picked the wrong culprit. [News Source]