Ocean acidification threatens New Zealand paua, mussels. Global warming's evil twin, the increasing acidification of carbon dioxide-saturated oceans is threatening New Zealand's corals, crustaceans and shellfish. [News Source]

CO2 pollution makes oceans more acid. Carbon dioxide emissions must fall sharply to avoid inflicting acid damage to the world's marine ecosystems, more than 150 scientists warned on Friday. [News Source]

Global warming affecting U.S. from coast to coast. It's difficult to predict which areas of the U.S. will suffer the most from global warming, but it's safe to say no regions will be unaffected. [News Source]

Abu Dhabi looks to the sun to go green. What will be the effect of Masdar, the zero-carbon city of 50,000 committed zero-carbon-producing people, on the rest of Abu Dhabi, population 2 million, or on the other six Emirates? [News Source]

Let the light shine in. Classrooms at Rowland Hall upper and middle schools will be a little dimmer over the next several weeks - and possibly for many years to come. Both schools have pledged to use natural light instead of electricity to illuminate their classrooms, offices and hallways whenever possible. [News Source]

Lawsuit filed over Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Indeck Energy Services Inc. is challenging New York state's authority to join the 10-state pact, known as RGGI, without legislative approval. The company says it will lose millions of dollars under the program. [News Source]

Powering the future. BC Hydro must cut its greenhouse gas emissions but continue to meet the province's growing power needs, which means choosing either natural gas or electric power as a main fuel source. [News Source]

Ocean rubbish dump could lock away carbon. Dumping crop waste in the deep ocean could be one of the best ways to rein in global warming, say researchers who have weighed the pros and cons of a range of carbon-capture schemes. [News Source]

Carbon capture fine in theory but untested. The technology the Scottish Government is hoping will clean up fossil-fuel power stations has yet to be proven on an industrial scale. [News Source]

Fuel retailer, environmentalists support Rocklin biofuels station. It’s not often environmentalists and a fuel retailer agree on much in the era of global warming, but a new biofuels station in Rocklin is attracting the two and creating opportunities for Rocklin drivers to reduce their carbon footprint. [News Source]

Climate friendly refrigerator magnets. Researchers from the United States and China have discovered a new metal alloy that could make refrigeration using HFCs a thing of the past. HFCs happen to be tens of thousands of times more potent as greenhouse gases than carbon dioxide. [News Source]