Climate change may increase mercury levels in seals used as food in North: study (CNews) Climate change in the Arctic may be boosting levels of highly toxic mercury in seals, one of the most commonly eaten traditional foods in the North. [News Source]

Climate Change: How The ‘2 Degrees Celsius Target’ Can Be Reached (Science Daily) If carbon dioxide emissions are halved by 2050 compared to 1990, global warming can be stabilized below two degrees. [News Source]

China to focus on renewable energy. China is battling air pollution and high costs for imported energy with an aggressive focus on renewable energy. China's government says it will have 100 gigawatts of wind-power capacity by 2020 - enough to power more than 60 million homes. [News Source]

Seeking to save the planet, with a thesaurus. The term 'global warming' turns people off, fostering images of shaggy-haired liberals, economic sacrifice and complex scientific disputes, according to extensive polling and focus group sessions conducted by a nonprofit environmental marketing and messaging firm in Washington. [News Source]

EPA rapidly reversing Bush policies. "Green" reversals have grown commonplace at EPA, where Administrator Lisa Jackson has systematically upended the agency's pro-industry tendencies of the past eight years, replacing them with decisions that strongly favor environmentalists. [News Source]

No Fish by 2048? The end of the line–Interview with journalist Charles Clover. Most of us know that there are problems with overfishing, but we don't think it will lead to a world without edible fish, or an ocean that will not be able to absorb carbon dioxide, worsening global warming. [News Source]

Energy Future Holdings ramps up efforts to get Congress to delay pay-to-pollute bill. When private equity titans Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and TPG bought Texas' largest utility in 2007, the new owners of one of the state's biggest polluters promised to support legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. [News Source]

Women, children feeling effects of climate change. The lives of women and children are particularly being affected by the growing problem of climate change, a United Nations official has warned. Changes in weather patterns have affected the physical growth and educational status of many children. [News Source]

Africa to monitor climate change. The African Union on Wednesday launched a satellite receiving station to track the effects of climate change on the world's poorest continent. Scientists warned that Africa, despite being the continent least responsible for climate change, will suffer the most from its consequences. [News Source]

Bureau blows hot and cold over Antarctica warm-up. The Bureau of Metereology has backed down from a claim that temperatures at Australia's three bases in Antarctica have been warming over the past three decades. [News Source]

Power plants could store carbon dioxide under North Sea. Millions of tons of emissions from Britain's power stations could be stored for centuries in rocks under the North Sea, a groundbreaking study has found. [News Source]