A refreshing idea for barnyard odor. Methane digesters may reenergize dairies and feed the regional grid, if farmers can afford them. [News Source]

Climate threat to polar bears: Despite facts, doubters remain. Wildlife biologists and climate scientists overwhelmingly agree that the disappearance of Arctic sea ice will lead to a sharp drop in polar bear populations. But some skeptics have persuaded the Canadian government not to take key steps to protect the animals. [News Source]

Maldives demands action on climate change. Global warming should be seen not as an environmental crisis but as a human rights issue that risks the lives, livelihoods and homes of millions of people, the president of one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change said. [News Source]

Tropic zones expanding due to climate change. Climate change is rapidly expanding the size of the world's tropical zone, threatening to bring disease and drought to heavily populated areas, an Australian study has found. [News Source]

Spain goes halfway on nuclear power. Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero had pledged to decommission nuclear plants once their 40-year lifespan expired. But then politics and the economy got in the way. [News Source]

Blair says saving energy is faster fix than C02 trade. Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair said saving energy and forests will yield faster reductions in greenhouse gases than trading carbon-dioxide allowances. [News Source]

Wisconsin wind power progress stalls because of outdated transmission system. Wind has become the nation's most viable renewable energy option but the network of wires moving electricity from power plants to end-users is old and unreliable. [News Source]

Just add lime (to the sea) - the latest plan to cut CO2 emissions. Putting lime into the oceans could stop or even reverse the accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere, according to proposals unveiled at a conference on climate change solutions in Manchester today. [News Source]

Devastation in Zambia as climate change brings early flooding. The Red Cross warns that global warming will lead to more disasters along the Zambezi river basin. [News Source]

Carbon deposits in arctic could worsen climate change. Thawing in the Arctic may lead to significant emissions of the greenhouse gases from the vast amounts of carbon, about twice as much as contained in the atmosphere, stored there. [News Source]

India says watered down climate text likely in Italy. A meeting in Italy this week of a 17-country group of the world's worst polluters that account for 80 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions will likely agree on a token joint declaration on climate change because President Obama will be chairing, Indian officials said on Sunday. [News Source]