Is global warming killing 300,000 people a year? (CNews) Climate-change disasters kill around 300,000 people a year and cause about US$125 billion in economic losses, mainly from agriculture, a think-tank led by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan reported Friday. [News Source]

World’s next big climate pact takes shape. This week, negotiators from 182 countries meet in Bonn, Germany to lay the groundwork for a post-Kyoto climate regime. The ultimate goal is to produce a new agreement that will cover developing as well as developed countries and pick up where the Kyoto Protocol leaves off. [News Source]

Study: Hurricane damage on Texas coast to worsen. Flooding and damage along the Texas Gulf Coast from major hurricanes is expected to be more severe in the coming years because of global warming, according to a study released today. [News Source]

Old wood is new coal as polluters embrace carbon-eating trees. Wood is becoming a hot commodity in a new low-carbon world. Power companies are burning trees because they’re renewable and can be cheaper than coal. Wood needs no permit to release carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas blamed for global warming. [News Source]

The seldom-seen devastation of climate change. In our visual culture, climate change remains oddly invisible. Few people can glimpse melting glaciers or perceive that seas levels are rising. We may feel hotter, but we cannot see carbon rising through the atmosphere as we drive our cars around. [News Source]

How we won acquittal of Kingsnorth six. If you see a fire in your neighbours' garden and you know they are out, you can break down his fence to prevent damage to his plants and to his bouncy castle. The defendants acted to put out the coal fire and save the Earth. [News Source]

Bio-diesel: Nigeria’s future “green gold” cash cow? The world's leading fossil fuels consuming nations are bent on shifting towards developing and consuming cleaner and less environmentally damaging fuel products that a now labelled "Green Fuels". [News Source]

Counterpoint: Climate change debate needs facts. House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson is helping lead a bipartisan effort to derail the use of a scheme known as "indirect land use change" that inflates the greenhouse gas emissions of corn-based ethanol. [News Source]

90 months and counting. Ten months have passed since pointing out that we have, at best, 100 left before a new, far more dangerous phase of global warming begins. The "chatter" of concern is getting louder. [News Source]

World’s next big climate pact takes shape. This week, negotiators from 182 countries meet in Bonn, Germany to lay the groundwork for a post-Kyoto climate regime. The ultimate goal is to produce a new agreement that will cover developing as well as developed countries and pick up where the Kyoto Protocol leaves off. [News Source]

160 Syrian villages deserted ‘due to climate change’ Some 160 villages in northern Syria were deserted of their residents in 2007 and 2008 because of a drought associated with climate change, with serious implications for peace in the region, according to a study released on Tuesday. [News Source]