Fixing the sky. When nations made plans to save the ozone layer, they didn't factor in global warming. These two global environmental problems complicate each other. [News Source]

Time running short for new climate-change deal. Poor countries stepped up demands Friday on the industrial world to keep the Earth from catastrophically overheating, amid warnings that negotiations are moving too slowly to meet a December deadline for a sweeping accord on global warming. [News Source]

New coal ads emphasize energy costs in bid for ‘hearts and minds’. Coal's well-funded lobbying group today launched a television ad campaign featuring ordinary people talking about the importance of low-cost electricity, a message analysts described as coal's effort to rebrand itself before the Senate tackles climate legislation. [News Source]

Greening the rustbelt. In the shadow of the climate bill, the industrial Midwest begins to get ready. But hopes for new green jobs are matched by fears that traditional ones will be lost. [News Source]

Giant glacier in Antarctic is melting four times faster than thought. Satellite records show that if the melting of the Pine Island Glacier in west Antarctica continues at current rates, the main section will have disappeared in 100 years, 500 years sooner than thought just a decade ago. [News Source]

Time running short for new climate-change deal. Poor countries stepped up demands Friday on the industrial world to keep the Earth from catastrophically overheating, amid warnings that negotiations are moving too slowly to meet a December deadline for a sweeping accord on global warming. [News Source]

New coal ads emphasize energy costs in bid for ‘hearts and minds’. Coal's well-funded lobbying group today launched a television ad campaign featuring ordinary people talking about the importance of low-cost electricity, a message analysts described as coal's effort to rebrand itself before the Senate tackles climate legislation. [News Source]

Greening the rustbelt. In the shadow of the climate bill, the industrial Midwest begins to get ready. But hopes for new green jobs are matched by fears that traditional ones will be lost. [News Source]

Vanishing tracts. As the Government's emissions trading scheme hit a brick wall this week, the everyday experiences of Australia's farmers with climate change gave the bickering in Canberra a hollow ring. [News Source]

China sets date for CO2 cut. China's carbon emissions will start falling by 2050, its top climate change policymaker said, the first time the world's largest emitter has given such a time-frame. [News Source]

Opencast coalmine surge weakens UK’s authority at climate change talks, says Nasa scientist. Coal production in Britain has increased sharply after a surge in new opencast coal mines, undermining the government's claim to be a world leader on combating climate change. [News Source]