What is killing Chile’s coastal wildlife? No one knows exactly what has caused four apparently unrelated environmental disasters in as many months. Global warming has been blamed, as has overfishing, pollution and disease. [News Source]

Is solar power a rich man’s resource? If solar is going to take off in the Northwest, it will mean re-shaping our relationship with energy. Part of a series [News Source]

Greens make big gains in EU parliament. Riding a wave of public concern over climate change, the Green-European Freedom Alliance bloc captured 53 of the European Union Parliament's 736 seats, compared with 43 spots in the last 785-seat assembly. The Greens proposed a "Green New Deal" economic plan to invest in renewable energy. [News Source]

Pledges insufficient to hold back climate change, expert says. Yvo de Boer, the United Nations top climate change official, said on Monday that the pledges made so far were well below the target for emissions reductions laid down by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. [News Source]

NGOs draft global ‘treaty’ to tackle climate change. Frustrated by the way governments are dragging their feet on combating climate change, leaders of green NGOs from around the world have come together to present the climate treaty they want to see inked at a global summit scheduled to be held in Denmark in December. [News Source]

Fielding slammed over solar flare theory. Scientists have slammed Family First's Steve Fielding after he returned from the US suggesting solar flares rather than human activity are responsible for climate change. [News Source]

Slop buckets in every home as councils consider a ban on food waste in landfill. Every home could be forced to use "slop buckets" under Government plans to cut waste by banning households from dumping food scraps in landfill. [News Source]

Airlines reject new tax to fight global warming. The airline industry has rejected calls for a compulsory tax on international flights to help the world's poorest countries fight global warming. [News Source]

Climate change protest targets Australia smelter. Environmental activists tried to shut down Australia's second-largest aluminium smelter on Tuesday in a widening series of protests targeting the resources sector, blamed by green groups for dragging its feet over global warming. [News Source]

Airlines call for CO2 targets, climate fund. Some of the world's largest airlines called on Tuesday for the industry to set global emissions targets as part of efforts to include aviation in a broader climate agreement at the end of the year. [News Source]

China, US ‘crucial for climate pact’ - Swedish ambassador. The key to success for the Copenhagen conference on global warming will be having the world's two biggest emitters - the United States and China - on board, said the Swedish ambassador to China. [News Source]