Debris, climate change threaten new Hawaiian marine monument. A remote location and special federal protection can't shield a new Hawaiian national monument from debris, invasive species and climate change, according to a new report. [News Source]

Last stand. Having once covered much of Lebanon’s rugged terrain, the country’s cedar tree, prized throughout history and the unifying emblem of a divided nation, is under threat from a warming world. [News Source]

Large ice shelf expected to break from Antarctica. Satellite images released by the European Space Agency on Friday show new cracks in the Wilkins Ice Shelf where it connects to Charcot Island, a piece of land considered part of the peninsula. [News Source]

One Antarctic ice shelf disappears, another two threatened. One ice shelf in Antarctica has completely disappeared and another two have lost massive sections, as glaciers there are melting more rapidly than previously known due to global warming, according to two separate studies. [News Source]

As West warms, some fear for tiny mountain dweller. As the West's climate warms, the tiny pika has little choice but to scurry a little farther upslope to beat the heat. [News Source]

Lafarge aims to make concrete making cleaner. Lafarge SA, the world's top cement maker, plans a wind farm as well as carbon capture and storage in Britain as the energy intensive sector faces an uphill struggle to cut its carbon footprint. [News Source]

Law to elevate ’smart growth’. California lawmakers have made fighting climate change sound easy, regional officials suggested Friday. But the reality is, complying with laws that call for a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming is going to be anything but easy. [News Source]

Study: Low-carbon fuel standards are unlikely to reduce warming. A low-carbon fuels standard is likely to do little to reduce global warming emissions and can even be counterproductive, according to a paper published in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. [News Source]

Polish coal plant tops EU’s ‘dirty thirty’ list. Poland is home once again to Europe's dirtiest power plant, but German utilities still owned 11 of the 30 most polluting facilities in the European Union in 2008, preliminary EU data showed. [News Source]

Keeping art, and climate, controlled. As museum budgets shrink, energy costs spiral, and gradual climate changes make the traditional temperature control systems more costly to maintain, museum experts are rethinking this model. Should museums be adding to climate change? [News Source]

The grass is always greener. Governments are spending heavily in a bid to create green jobs. But saving the planet and creating jobs may be incompatible. [News Source]