In-vitro meat: would lab-burgers be better for us and the planet? A pioneering group of scientists are working to grow real animal protein in the laboratory, which they not only claim is better for animal welfare, but actually healthier, both for people and the climate. [News Source]

Driving out of Germany, to pollute another day. Old cars traded in as part of Germany's cash-for-clunkers program are now churning out carbon dioxide and other pollutants in a host of foreign lands, undermining the ecological goals of the program. [News Source]

Unelected Colorado Democrat a wild card on energy, climate issues. When it comes to legislation aimed at addressing climate change, there are senators whose votes are clear and those who are undecided. Then there is Sen. Michael Bennet, who might be described as a enigma. [News Source]

Harnessing the Severn. A tidal project that would put a 10-mile concrete barrier across the United Kingdom’s longest river is generating controversy. The proposed Severn barrage would help the UK produce reliable, renewable energy in its efforts to combat climate change. But critics say the huge tidal wall will harm the river ecosystem. [News Source]

Extinction ‘gene’: Some species are more at risk. Even during the relatively peaceful eras between global calamities, during what is known as background extinction, whole families of species can disappear, pushed out of existence together. [News Source]

In-vitro meat: would lab-burgers be better for us and the planet? A pioneering group of scientists are working to grow real animal protein in the laboratory, which they not only claim is better for animal welfare, but actually healthier, both for people and the climate. [News Source]

Driving out of Germany, to pollute another day. Old cars traded in as part of Germany's cash-for-clunkers program are now churning out carbon dioxide and other pollutants in a host of foreign lands, undermining the ecological goals of the program. [News Source]

Unelected Colorado Democrat a wild card on energy, climate issues. When it comes to legislation aimed at addressing climate change, there are senators whose votes are clear and those who are undecided. Then there is Sen. Michael Bennet, who might be described as a enigma. [News Source]

Harnessing the Severn. A tidal project that would put a 10-mile concrete barrier across the United Kingdom’s longest river is generating controversy. The proposed Severn barrage would help the UK produce reliable, renewable energy in its efforts to combat climate change. But critics say the huge tidal wall will harm the river ecosystem. [News Source]

Extinction ‘gene’: Some species are more at risk. Even during the relatively peaceful eras between global calamities, during what is known as background extinction, whole families of species can disappear, pushed out of existence together. [News Source]

Green suasion or mind control? We know climate change is going to be really, really bad for us and the planet. So why do we still drive to the corner store, buy a house in the suburbs and fly to Bermuda for a weekend getaway? Settle into a couch. The answer is in our minds, say psychologists. [News Source]