Third-world stove soot is target in climate fight. Reducing soot from tens of thousands of villages in developing countries is a relatively simple climate fix that scientists say should be pursued immediately. [News Source]

New warning over ‘catastrophic’ sea level rise, scientists claim. Sea levels could rise by a "catastrophic" 10 feet by the end of the century – putting millions of people at risk of flooding with coastal cities such as London, New York, Tokyo and Calcutta submerged, according to a new study. [News Source]

Tricky course lies ahead for Browner on the environment. President Barack Obama's effort to remake federal energy and environmental policy will undergo some rigorous tests in the coming weeks -- and so will his environmental-policy czar, Carol Browner. [News Source]

Debating the climate benefits of ‘biochar.’ What if carbon dioxide could be trapped in a solid and inert material that also worked well as a fertilizer? Such a material--referred to as biochar--can be produced when organic matter like plant, food or animal waste is burned in a low-oxygen environment. [News Source]

Oslo sets limit on Arctic seabed, short of North Pole. Norway on Wednesday became the first Arctic nation to accept limits to its northern seabed, stopping short of the North Pole in a regional territorial scramble driven partly by hopes of finding oil and gas, which may become more accessible as global warming melts the arctic icecap. [News Source]

Organizers call regional emissions plan a success. Organizers and participants in the nation's only working cap-and-trade program for carbon emissions called the fledgling attempt to reduce greenhouse gas emissions a success Wednesday. [News Source]

Another approach to low-carbon coal. Of the various possibilities for turning coal into electricity without dumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, experts are betting on “integrated gasification combined cycle." Now, Tenaska Energy wants to add another candidate: hybrid I.G.C.C. [News Source]

Climate scientists living in Pollyanna world, says senator. National Party senator Ron Boswell clashed with some of Australia's leading climate scientists yesterday, accusing them of living in "a Pollyanna world" and putting jobs in jeopardy by calling for deep cuts to the country's greenhouse gas emissions. [News Source]

Obama wants climate bill mindful of WTO rules. The Obama administration wants to ensure that legislation being crafted by Congress to fight global climate change does not violate international trade rules and backfire on U.S. exports, the top U.S. trade official said in a letter to a Republican lawmaker. [News Source]

Prodded by petition, EPA reconsiders ocean pH limits. U.S. EPA is weighing a revision of standards aimed at preventing the acidification of marine waters. The effort marks the first time EPA has invoked the Clean Water Act to address ocean acidification. [News Source]

Climate change may halve Southern Africa cereal crop. Cereals production could fall by 50 percent in parts of southern Africa in the long term due to climate change, causing increased hunger and poverty, a researcher told an agriculture conference on Wednesday. [News Source]