Eco-Islam. Muslim scholars and leaders recently gathered in Istanbul to discuss and approve a 7-year action plan to address climate change, which includes plans for sustainable Muslim cities, reduced fossil fuel consumption, and a green Hajj. [News Source]

The biofuel future. If growing biofuels creates the same environmental problems that plague much of large-scale agriculture, then air and water quality might not really improve. Biofuels done badly, scientists say, could go very, very wrong. [News Source]

The seven terrors of the world. The world is facing a series of interlinked crises which threatens billions of people and could cause the collapse of civilisation, according to an international report out this week. [News Source]

Is a warmer world a sicker world? Some scientists are beginning to see the ecology of disease as far too complicated to support simple declarations about the impact of global warming. [News Source]

Recycling trash to electricity idea has residents nervous. A New Orleans company plans to recycle glass, metals and other materials and turn the rest of our garbage into electricity. But a host of critics claim the technology is untested, expensive and hazardous to the environment and public health. [News Source]

Alcoa razes rain forest in court case led by Brazil prosecutors. For thousands in the Juruti region of Para whose livelihood depends on wildlife and plants, everything changed in 2006. That’s when Alcoa Inc. started to bulldoze a 56-kilometer swath of the rain forest across hundreds of families’ properties to build a railway. [News Source]

Sage grouse unlikely focus of Wyoming wind wars. They used to mine coal in the abandoned town of Carbon. Now this patch of southern Wyoming is a battleground in the debate over what many hope will be the clean energy source of the future: wind power. [News Source]

Asian giants put the West’s targets for solar energy in the shade. For years India and China have been cast in the West as the biggest obstacles to international agreement on how to tackle climate change. Now they have challenged the West to match their bold plans to develop solar power. [News Source]

Deforestation is ‘key climate issue’. In Brazil deforestation is responsible for more than half of carbon emissions, while across the world it is blamed for up to 20% of the gases that are said to be heating the planet. Addressing this must be a key component of any global climate agreement, Britain's energy and climate minister says. [News Source]

Canadians want oil sands production cut. Provincial premiers will meet in Regina this week amid new poll results that show a majority of Canadians think oil sands production should be cut as Canada grapples with reducing greenhouse gases. [News Source]

India and China co-operate over Himalayan glaciers. India and China are to co-operate in monitoring the melting of glaciers in the Himalayas, a border region crucial to both countries’ water supplies and one over which they have gone to war. [News Source]