Solving the climate dilemma, one billion emitters at a time. A new framework for reducing carbon emissions takes a crack at the knottiest dilemma confronting a global climate solution: how to divvy cuts between rich and poor nations. [News Source]

Coal industry sees life or death in Senate climate debate. "The valley of death," is an economic chasm that the coal industry fears awaits it if the Senate approves climate legislation similar to what passed the House... [News Source]

Can artists save the world? The last five years have seen an unprecedented flowering of eco-awareness and activism throughout the arts, at home and abroad. From giant multiplexes to 50-seat fringe venues, artist are talking – and singing, and writing, and painting – about the planet's inexorable drift towards disaster. [News Source]

Solving the climate dilemma, one billion emitters at a time. A new framework for reducing carbon emissions takes a crack at the knottiest dilemma confronting a global climate solution: how to divvy cuts between rich and poor nations. [News Source]

Coal industry sees life or death in Senate climate debate. "The valley of death," is an economic chasm that the coal industry fears awaits it if the Senate approves climate legislation similar to what passed the House. [News Source]

Emerging El Niño set to drive up carbon emissions. Across the globe an emerging El Niño weather pattern threatens to cause droughts and floods and trigger a spike in planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from burning dried-out forests. Scientists say there is a very strong correlation between El Niño and drought in Southeast Asia. [News Source]

Can artists save the world? The last five years have seen an unprecedented flowering of eco-awareness and activism throughout the arts, at home and abroad. From giant multiplexes to 50-seat fringe venues, artists are talking – and singing, and writing, and painting – about the planet's inexorable drift towards disaster. [News Source]

Reefs could perish by end of century, experts warn. Increasingly acidic oceans and warming water temperatures could kill off the world's coral reefs by the end of this century, with dire consequences. "The kitchen is on fire and it's spreading around the house," warned one scientist. [News Source]

Beetle attacks - a natural event? Some environmentalists and scientists argue that the insects are a natural phenomenon, like forest fires, and play a vital ecological role. [News Source]

UN official seeks G-8 cash for climate change fund. Developing countries need money now to grapple with global warming, and the Group of Eight summit this week could energize troubled climate negotiations if it decided to make "significant" funds available, the top U.N. climate official said Monday. [News Source]

EU’s Barroso seeks two degrees Celsius pact at G8 summit. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Monday he will press the United States and other nations to limit global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius at this week's Group of Eight summit. [News Source]