Lamborn seeks more shale exploration. Congressman Doug Lamborn has introduced legislation that aims at expanding oil shale exploration in Western states. [News Source]

Developing a greener Third World. Common cause must be found between rich countries and poorer ones, which resent the idea that they ought not pursue a similar, carbon dioxide-belching path to vitality. [News Source]

Leaders go missing in climate change battle. Facing up to the implications of climate change, we are witnessing the greatest failure of leadership Australia has seen. [News Source]

Making high-tech products for a low-carbon world. A scheme that puts a price on greenhouse gas pollution should include energy intensive industries like coal and aluminium, as long as the Federal Government provides targeted assistance to kick-start green manufacturing jobs in impacted communities. [News Source]

Climate change in Bangladesh: preventive measures. The impact of climate change is worldwide. For Bangladesh they are most critical as large part of the population is chronically exposed and vulnerable to a range of natural hazards. [News Source]

Climate change game-changer for China relations. Climate change is an economic issue, a national security issue, an environmental health issue and a moral issue. It is also an opportunity for the United States and China to make progress together on behalf of both of our citizens and, indeed, the entire world. [News Source]

High cost of ignoring the ocean. Humanity has taken the ocean for granted, polluting the sea and treating its resources as inexhaustible. Large areas of the ocean now are deficient in oxygen and nutrients as a result of overfishing, pollution, habitat degradation, and ocean acidification. [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]

Wisconsin’s wind-power opportunities blowing away. A report released today concludes that the Midwestern economy can capitalize on its wind resource and expertise in areas such as vehicle technology and energy efficiency if the US passes limits on greenhouse gas emissions. [News Source]