Entrepreneurs wade into the ‘dead zone.’ Every spring, fertilizer runoff from the Mississippi floods into the Gulf of Mexico, causing a massive algae bloom, void of fish. Now, this problem is getting attention from entrepreneurs looking for a new fuel source--and fish are part of the process. [News Source]

US marines in Afghanistan launch first energy efficiency audit in war zone. In a dramatic shift in the US military's approach to energy consumption and climate change, the US Marines Corps ordered the first ever energy audit in a war zone today to try to reduce the enormous fuel costs of keeping troops on the ground in Afghanistan. [News Source]

Surviving in extreme conditions after typhoon. Typhoon Morakot, the eighth to hit China this year and the worst for half a century, led to the evacuation of 1.5 million people on the mainland. Now emergency relief teams are trying to prevent more secondary disasters. Climate change is the biggest component to the volatile weather in China. [News Source]

Entrepreneurs wade into the ‘dead zone.’ Every spring, fertilizer runoff from the Mississippi floods into the Gulf of Mexico, causing a massive algae bloom, void of fish. Now, this problem is getting attention from entrepreneurs looking for a new fuel source--and fish are part of the process. [News Source]

US marines in Afghanistan launch first energy efficiency audit in war zone. In a dramatic shift in the US military's approach to energy consumption and climate change, the US Marines Corps ordered the first ever energy audit in a war zone today to try to reduce the enormous fuel costs of keeping troops on the ground in Afghanistan. [News Source]

Leaping the efficiency gap. Experience has shown that there is more to saving energy than designing better light bulbs and refrigerators. Researchers say it will need a mixture of persuasion, regulation, and taxation. [News Source]

Nuclear power’s new debate: cost. A new nuclear enthusiasm has now emerged quite powerfully in Congress, but a new wave of concern is rising – not over traditional anxieties such as radioactive waste or weapons proliferation – but about the mammoth financial cost of nuclear power and who will bear it. [News Source]

Surviving in extreme conditions after typhoon. Typhoon Morakot, the eighth to hit China this year and the worst for half a century, led to the evacuation of 1.5 million people on the mainland. Now emergency relief teams are trying to prevent more secondary disasters. Climate change is the biggest component to the volatile weather in China. [News Source]

Heat on over climate bills. The Federal Government is expected to cave in to intense industry pressure to decouple its renewable energy target legislation, after the Opposition and crossbench senators scuttled the emissions trading scheme. [News Source]

Money key stumbling block at UN climate talks. Developing countries will need billions to curb carbon pollution and cope with its consequences, and where that money will come from has emerged as a major stumbling block as another round of UN climate talks winds down in Bonn. [News Source]

India blames Kyoto failure for climate standoff. India said Thursday it was committed to fighting climate change, but called developed nations' failure to implement the Kyoto Protocol the "single biggest issue" facing multilateral talks. [News Source]