Cattle corridor in climate scare. As Uganda feels the impacts of climate change, the worst scenario is reported in the cattle corridor, stretching from the northern region to the southwest region. [News Source]

Will the global warming bill cool the global economy? The bill's passage by the House is historic and will likely increase President Obama's leverage in global climate negotiations. Detractors, though, point to its economic costs and the limited nature of the final legislation. [News Source]

Congressmen call energy bill ‘disastrous’. The American Clean Energy and Security Act that passed the U.S. House of Representatives last week is either the first step in curtailing gases that may cause global warming or will lead to “the complete annihilation of the oil industry in the United States.” [News Source]

Fallow fields. Farming on river-fed floodplains cuts their carbon storage, suggests a new study. These floodplains are highly productive ecosystems covering more than 1.3% of the Earth's surface, but little is known about the quantities of carbon cycling through them. [News Source]

Drax protesters plead climate change cause to jury. Climate change protesters accused of hijacking a power station coal train managed to mount a vigorous political defence of their actions in court yesterday during hours of cat-and-mouse negotiations with a judge. [News Source]

Coal-state senator pledges to fight ‘cap and trade’ The junior senator from Wyoming, the nation's top coal-producing state, says he will do everything he can to prevent a climate-change bill from passing the Senate. [News Source]

Shutting out sun. Proposals to cool the planet using geoengineering — for example, by pumping reflective aerosols into the upper atmosphere — have been criticized on the basis that they would do little to solve ocean acidification. [News Source]

Drax protesters ‘not criminals.’ Environmental protesters who ambushed a coal train as it approached a power station told a jury Wednesday they believe they are not criminals. Louise Hemmerman, 31, said she took the action she did on the train because she had got nowhere pursuing the usual protest routes. [News Source]

Pipe dreams. A scheme to fertilize the ocean is unlikely to make any real contribution to carbon sequestration, scientists report. [News Source]

Obama’s climate leadership faces a test at the G8 forum. U.S. President Barack Obama, buoyed by a domestic victory on climate policy, faces his first foreign test on the issue next week at a forum that could boost the chances of reaching a U.N. global warming pact this year. [News Source]

China opposed to tariff plan in US climate bill. China said Thursday it opposed part of a landmark U.S. bill to cut greenhouse gas emissions, saying tariffs should not be imposed on countries that do not cut emissions. [News Source]