Help wanted for green jobs. Though the "win-win" perkiness of the phrase has inspired some media cynicism, "green jobs" is not just a campaign buzzword or a liberal fantasy. Environmentally sound job creation and training is happening right now, all over the country. But progress can be slow. [News Source]

Iowa’s green energy policy struggle. Prairie winds and rich soil make Iowa fertile ground for developing alternative energy sources from wind turbines and biofuels. But the landscape is also a reminder that achieving energy independence is a formidable challenge and making an agricultural economy green is not easy. [News Source]

Tidal power divides the greens. One single project could provide an enormous boost to Britain's renewable energy problems. Engineers have long fantasized about harnessing all the energy from the river Servern--and with climate change and energy security now pressing political problems, ministers are beginning to take them seriously. [News Source]

Green beginnings. The new president puts the pedal to the metal on fuel efficiency for cars and the new Congress pumps billions into clean energy investment-proof that change has come to Washington when it comes to dealing with climate change. [News Source]

Science loses out when ice caps melt. As glaciers retreat, they are taking their historical records with them. Losing this data means losing important history about the long-lasting impacts of natural climate, said glaciologist Lonnie Thompson. [News Source]

Million Ponds project aims to restore number of freshwater sites to pre-industrial levels. Charity to restore ponds to pre-industrial levels, protecting threatened species and helping them to survive global warming. [News Source]

Old growth forests near Chester part of tree study. Old growth trees around the West are dying faster than ever before because of climate change, researchers say. [News Source]

Disease, aided by global warming, threatens coral reefs. The coral reefs of the Caribbean are an underwater paradise of life and color. But there's trouble in paradise. And a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution sees global warming as a key culprit in turning that paradise into a dead zone. [News Source]

California heads for a third dry year in a row. The water content of the snow piled on the Sierra Nevada Mountains and elsewhere in the state sits at 61 percent of normal. “We may be at the start of the worst California drought in modern history,” said Lester Snow, director of California’s Water Resources Department. [News Source]

Acid oceans ‘need urgent action’. The world's marine ecosystems risk being severely damaged by ocean acidification unless there are dramatic cuts in CO2 emissions, warn scientists. [News Source]

Antarctica warms, which threatens penguins. New evidence from satellites and weather stations suggests that way down south, Antarctica is feeling the heat. And that’s not good news for penguins. [News Source]