Twenty ideas that could save the world. We hear endlessly about the havoc unabated climate change will wreak. But the countless ingenious ideas for tackling the problem emanating from universities, thinktanks, front rooms and sheds across the planet get rather less attention. [News Source]

Children die in harsh Peru winter. This year freezing temperatures arrived almost three months earlier than usual; experts blame climate change for the early arrival of the intense cold, which began in March. [News Source]

Twenty ideas that could save the world. We hear endlessly about the havoc unabated climate change will wreak. But the countless ingenious ideas for tackling the problem emanating from universities, thinktanks, front rooms and sheds across the planet get rather less attention. [News Source]

British company barcodes trees to protect forests. Deep in the world's tropical rainforests, workers are hammering thousands of barcodes into hardwood trees to help in the fight against illegal logging, corruption and global warming. Deforestation accounts for about a fifth of global emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide. [News Source]

Children die in harsh Peru winter. This year freezing temperatures arrived almost three months earlier than usual; experts blame climate change for the early arrival of the intense cold, which began in March. [News Source]

Timber export ban to save forests, promote carbon-credit trading. Minister of Agriculture Chan Sarun on Thursday announced a Kingdom-wide ban on timber exports in a move aimed at protecting forests and promoting a future carbon-credit trading programme. [News Source]

The conservation imperative. Hot weather can jack up your electric bill, but area utilities are spending some big money to help customers lessen the blow, and looking to new technologies to make conservation even easier in the future. [News Source]

Chemicals to help coal come clean. By capturing CO2 emitted from coal-fired power plants and storing it in underground geologic formations, some believe they can continue to use coal while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Accomplishing this feat will not be easy, but chemical companies are lining up to help. [News Source]

Patent spat looms at climate change meeting. Ways of averting a damaging clash over patents at a climate change meeting later this year, pitting the US against the big emerging economies, will top the agenda at a conference organised by the UN’s intellectual property agency that opens on Monday. [News Source]

Is cap and trade Dems’ next ‘BTU’? Some House Democrats are nervously watching their Senate colleagues, hoping they aren’t stuck defending another controversial energy vote that ultimately is rendered an unnecessary risk by the upper chamber. [News Source]

Gore to meet climate sceptic Fielding. Environmental campaigner Al Gore has agreed to meet Steve Fielding, the climate sceptic senator who holds the key to an emissions trading scheme in Australia. [News Source]