House floats draft of energy and climate change bill (CNET) Green technologies stand to get further support with the bill, particularly in renewable energy and efficiency, but global warming provisions face a tough political fight. [News Source]

FGCU professor appears in national global warming ads (The News-Press) A Florida Gulf Coast University professor has taken a stand against the theory of global warming in a newspaper advertisement that has appeared in... [News Source]

Pricey ads signed by scientists slam Obama’s climate change talk. More than 100 scientists — including a number of Canadian government scientists and university professors — have signed a full-page Cato Institute newspaper ad denouncing U.S. President Barack Obama's remarks about climate change last November as "untrue." [News Source]

Concrete is remixed with the environment in mind. Major changes are being made in concrete production and use — changes that make use of basic research and are grounded, in part, in the need to reduce concrete’s carbon footprint. [News Source]

Coal is winner even in “green” Congress. Congress is set this week to begin testing whether it can turn the push for renewable energy sought by President Obama into reality. But the result is likely to fall short and, ironically, preserve the primacy of the most abundant and dirtiest fossil fuel: coal. [News Source]

In Bangladesh, disasters widen the road to slavery. In Bangladesh, climate change threatens to thrust millions more families into desperate conditions - further evidence that changing weather patterns and increases in natural disasters already are causing upheaval among the world's poorest communities. [News Source]

Bangladesh needs the West’s help, but isn’t waiting for it. Leaders throughout Bangladesh say the nation desperately needs money from the West to adapt to problems that the world's leading climate scientists agree are caused by the emissions of industrialized nations. [News Source]

Pricey ads signed by scientists slam Obama’s climate change talk. More than 100 scientists — including a number of Canadian government scientists and university professors — have signed a full-page Cato Institute newspaper ad denouncing U.S. President Barack Obama's remarks about climate change last November as "untrue." [News Source]

Concrete is remixed with the environment in mind. Major changes are being made in concrete production and use — changes that make use of basic research and are grounded, in part, in the need to reduce concrete’s carbon footprint. [News Source]

Urban beekeepers know it’s more than just honey and money. While commercial beekeepers struggle to stay in business and bees strive to stay alive, Kirk Anderson and his counterparts continue to preserve the local honeybee population, one insect at a time. [News Source]

Norfolk flood plans dramatically dropped. Devastating proposals to surrender 25 square miles of the Broads to the North Sea as an option for responding to climate change impacts have been officially dropped by government conservation advisers. [News Source]