75 million Asia-Pacific climate refugees. Pacific Islanders, aiming to secure their very survival in the face of climate change, are calling for immediate commitments from the developed world to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 45 percent by 2020. [News Source]

For Senate, a climate of competing interests. Environmentalists want a tighter cap on emissions. Electric utilities want a looser one. The nuclear industry wants loan guarantees for new reactors. Even God, apparently, wants something from the Senate's climate change bill. [News Source]

Nobel halo fades fast for panel on climate. As the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change gears up for its next climate review, many specialists in climate science and policy are warning that it could quickly lose relevance unless it adjusts its methods and focus. [News Source]

Opinions differ on cause of UAE dust. An enormous concentration of dust heading towards the UAE from Iraq captured by a Nasa satellite, Terra, last week shows incontrovertible evidence of man’s harmful impact on the planet, experts say. [News Source]

Nobel halo fades fast for panel on climate. As the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change gears up for its next climate review, many specialists in climate science and policy are warning that it could quickly lose relevance unless it adjusts its methods and focus. [News Source]

For Senate, a climate of competing interests. Environmentalists want a tighter cap on emissions. Electric utilities want a looser one. The nuclear industry wants loan guarantees for new reactors. Even God, apparently, wants something from the Senate's climate change bill. [News Source]

75 million Asia-Pacific climate refugees. Pacific Islanders, aiming to secure their very survival in the face of climate change, are calling for immediate commitments from the developed world to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 45 percent by 2020. [News Source]

Edward Markey raps coal group on forgeries. A major energy coalition caught up in a fraudulent grassroots lobbying scandal tried to contain the damage Monday only to see it mushroom, dragging in two more lawmakers and prompting a congressional call for an investigation. [News Source]

Obama’s green credentials tested by battle against mountaintop mining. Mountaintop removal begins with the clear-cutting of entire forests and then the shearing off up to 1,000 vertical feet of mountain peak. This exposes thin seams of coal that cannot easily be reached by underground tunnels. [News Source]

Is there a place for nuclear waste? Yucca Mountain was supposed to be the answer to the U.S.'s nuclear waste problem, but after 22 years and $9 billion, that vision is dead. Now, some say that doing nothing in the near term may be the smartest solution. [News Source]

Unpopular science. It's no secret the newspaper industry is hemorrhaging staff writers and slashing coverage as its business model collapses in the face of declining readership and advertising revenues. But less recognized is how this trend is killing off a breed of journalistic specialists that we need now more than ever--science writers. [News Source]