Acid in the oceans: a growing threat to sea life. When we burn fossil fuels, we are not just putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. A lot of it goes into the sea. There, carbon dioxide turns into carbonic acid. And that turns ocean water corrosive, particularly to shellfish and corals. [News Source]

Will ‘energy crops’ become the next kudzu? U.S. policies are subsidizing new energy crops that are likely to spread off the farm and wreak economic and ecological havoc, a federal advisory board cautioned yesterday. [News Source]

As India water and power dry up, the people revolt . Experts say the shortages could be the result of global warming or natural cycles. But that hasn't provided much solace to farmers as they watch their crops die, their livelihoods wither, their children go thirsty. [News Source]

Environmental movies have a green problem: money. Three years after "An Inconvenient Truth" won over moviegoers and Oscar voters, many new works are suffering the same fate plaguing other intellectually engaging films: moviegoers would rather hug Transformers than trees. [News Source]

Australian parliament rejects carbon trade plan. Australia's parliament rejected a plan for the world's most ambitious emissions trade regime as expected on Thursday, bringing the nation closer to a snap election and prolonging financial uncertainty for major emitters. [News Source]

Row over US biofuel rules intensifies. An independent peer review of proposed US biofuel regulations has only served to intensify a long-running dispute between corn-ethanol producers and those demanding tougher life cycle assessments of the carbon emissions that biofuels generate. [News Source]

An ‘increase’ in big storms may just be better detection. Since the mid-1990s, hurricanes and tropical storms have struck the Atlantic Ocean with unusual frequency--or have they? Two new studies suggest that the situation may not be so clear. [News Source]

Drive for atomic energy adds to nuclear challenge: US. A senior US official acknowledged on Wednesday that the growing demand for atomic energy in response to climate change was adding to the challenges of preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. [News Source]

China signals long-term plans to curb greenhouse gases. China will make "controlling greenhouse gas emissions" an important part of its development plans, the government said, blaming global warming for increasing droughts and floods and melting glaciers. [News Source]

One-third of world’s biggest firms still not addressing climate change. The Climate Change Compass found that of the 300 companies analyzed, 55 percent have short-term targets on climate change, up from 48 percent in 2008. [News Source]

U.N. climate pact seen hinging on deeper CO2 cuts. A U.N. climate deal due in December will be a flop unless industrialized nations sharply increase promised cuts in greenhouse gas emissions for 2020, the chair of a key U.N. group said on Wednesday. [News Source]