As U.S. shifts on climate, qualms in Europe remain. The European hosts of the Group of 8 summit meeting welcome the United States' shift on climate change. But the new stance also worries them, in part because they fear that the U.S. is working toward an independent deal with China. [News Source]

Studies foresee dilemma over forest carbon storage. Scientists conclude in two government-funded studies that forests in the Pacific Northwest have a huge potential to store more carbon to combat global warming, but not if they are heavily thinned to prevent wildfire. [News Source]

Making a cash cow out of manure isn’t easy. Agriculture accounted for almost a third of U.S. methane emissions in 2007. The industry has so far escaped looming mandatory reductions from California and the federal government. But it also has had trouble making a financial case for reducing methane emissions voluntarily. [News Source]

It ain’t easy going green. Connecticut residents trying to make environmentally friendly changes to their homes and businesses report running into any number of problems, from building inspectors ignorant about green technology to neighbors concerned about aesthetics. [News Source]

Swimming in the bay is risky. If you hadn't thought twice about dipping your toes in the cool waters of a local creek or the Chesapeake Bay, a new report might make you think again. [News Source]

As U.S. shifts on climate, qualms in Europe remain. The European hosts of the Group of 8 summit meeting welcome the United States' shift on climate change. But the new stance also worries them, in part because they fear that the U.S. is working toward an independent deal with China. [News Source]

San Francisco Public Utilities Commission pursues underground water-storage plan. The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is pursuing a plan to store water underground that can be pumped out in time to supply customers in a drought, given the uncertainty of California's water future. [News Source]

Studies foresee dilemma over forest carbon storage. Scientists conclude in two government-funded studies that forests in the Pacific Northwest have a huge potential to store more carbon to combat global warming, but not if they are heavily thinned to prevent wildfire. [News Source]

Making a cash cow out of manure isn’t easy. Agriculture accounted for almost a third of U.S. methane emissions in 2007. The industry has so far escaped looming mandatory reductions from California and the federal government. But it also has had trouble making a financial case for reducing methane emissions voluntarily. [News Source]

Thin ice the norm in the warming Arctic. The thick durable sea ice that routinely cloaked much of the Arctic Ocean in colder decades in the 20th century is increasingly relegated to a few clotted places along northern Canada and Greenland, according to the latest satellite analysis of the warming region. [News Source]

Kaua‘i’s warm, wet future. Global warming and one of its major byproducts — sea-level rise — will not swallow the Hawaiian Islands whole, but will gradually creep into people’s lives, University of Hawai‘i professor Dr. Chip Fletcher warned the Kaua‘i Planning Commission. [News Source]