Ocean conference seeks ways to stem climate change (AP via Yahoo! Asia News) Participants in a major conference in Indonesia this week have a rare opportunity to seek political commitment to utilizing the world's oceans in the fight against climate change, a top official from the host country said. [News Source]

Global warming: OSU speaks (The Lantern) By Campus editor The vast majority of Ohio State students are convinced global warming is happening, according to a survey of 3,568 full-time OSU undergraduate students. The random, scientifically valid survey represents the views and knowledge of the university's 35,719 full-time, undergraduate students. [News Source]

Changes In The Sun Are Not Causing Global Warming, New Study Shows (Science Daily) With the US Congress beginning to consider regulations on greenhouse gases, a troubling hypothesis about how the sun may impact global warming is finally laid to rest. [News Source]

Scientists: No link cloud coverage and global warming (PhysOrg) With the U.S. Congress beginning to consider regulations on greenhouse gases, a troubling hypothesis about how the sun may impact global warming is finally laid to rest. [News Source]

Conference weighs how oceans reduce climate change (The Times of India) MANADO (Indonesia): The role oceans play in countering climate change will dominate talks between environmental experts from 120 countries meeting in Indonesia this week. [News Source]

Global warming critics appointed to science boards (The Globe and Mail) Harper government's actions are 'dreadful' and undercut public pledges to tackle climate change, leading glaciologist says [News Source]

Scandinavian royal heirs to study climate change in Greenland (EARTHtimes.org) Copenhagen - Danish Crown Prince Frederik, Norway's Crown Prince Haakon, and Swedish Crown Princess Victoria are due to visit Greenland at the end of May to study the effects of climate change on the world's largest island. The May 27 to June 1 visit... [News Source]

WORLD OCEAN CONFERENCE TO FACE CLIMATE CHANGE (Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News) MANADO (North Sulawesi), May 11 (Bernama) -- A global conference on oceans opened here today to highlight the threat from global warming that will accelerate the destruction of precious marine resources. [News Source]

China emerges as a leader in clean coal technology. China has emerged in the past two years as the world’s leading builder of so-called clean coal power plants, mastering the technology and driving down the cost. [News Source]

Buzzwords: Rephrasing Obama’s lexicon. In the debate over his top environmental goals, President Obama is backing away from "cap and trade." Not the policy. It's the phrase itself, deemed confusing by Democratic pollsters, that has all but disappeared from the president's vocabulary of late. [News Source]

Drought, politics trouble farmers in California. California is in its third year of drought, and many farmers in the state's crop-rich Central Valley are looking at dusty fields, or worse, are cutting down their orchards before the trees die. [News Source]