China, U.S. discuss climate change (UPI) BEIJING, June 8 (UPI) -- Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang, praising the U.S. stand on climate change, called for substantial cooperation on the issue between the two nations. [News Source]

Climate Change Tops Ban’s Talks With Officials (Scoop.co.nz) New York, Jun 5 2009 5:10PM Climate change figured prominently in Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s recent talks with senior officials from the United States and Japan, his spokesperson announced today. [News Source]

Eastday-China calls on substantial co-op with U.S. on climate change (Eastday.com) Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang (1st R) meets with Todd Stern, U.S. special envoy for climate change, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, on June 8, 2009. [News Source]

China urges co-op with U.S. on climate change (China Economic Net) Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang met with U.S. special envoy for climate change Todd Stern on Monday, calling for more dialogues and substantial cooperation with the United States on climate change. [News Source]

Health, climate change vie for boost in US Congress (Deepika) WASHINGTON, Jun 7 (Reuters) Barack Obama may be pressuring Congress as no US president has for decades as he aims to get two big domestic goals passed this year -- reforming health care and fighting global warming. [News Source]

Climate vows insufficient to hold back climate change, expert says (Deutsche Welle) As climate change talks in Bonn enter their final week, negotiators have failed to elicit promises to curb greenhouse gas emissions by as much as the environment requires, a UN official says. [News Source]

Climate bill would help poor pay for energy Low-income families will receive hundreds of dollars a year to help pay higher energy bills if Congress enacts the first-ever limits on the gases blamed for global warming, according to a new analysis. [News Source]

Climate bill would help poor pay for energy Low-income families will receive hundreds of dollars a year to help pay higher energy bills if Congress enacts the first-ever limits on the gases blamed for global warming, according to a new analysis. [News Source]

For China-U.S. talks on climate, issues old and new. For months the United States and China, by far the world’s two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, have been warily circling each other in hopes of breaking a long impasse on global warming policy. [News Source]

Apocalypse now. The idea of apocalypses has been around as long as religion. But the notion that the world as we know it is about to end - this time with an environmental rather than a religious-inspired bang - lately has been making inroads in more mainstream and progressive-leaning circles, including some of the most respected thinkers about science and society. [News Source]

U.S. foresees a thinner cushion of coal. Coal provides nearly one-quarter of the total energy consumed in the U.S., and by federal estimates, the country has enough in the ground to last about 240 years. But the estimate, recent findings show, may be wildly overconfident. [News Source]