Climate pact means new business, not trade war: U.S. envoy. Trade wars after a planned U.N. climate deal are implausible, partly because of a surge of new business opportunities creating jobs in clean energy, the head of the U.S. delegation at U.N. climate talks said. [News Source]

Growing ‘green’ jobs is a long-term task. As Congress wrestles with energy and climate legislation, the debate has enlarged to ask whether federal intervention is required not just to respond to global warming threats, but also to plant seeds for new industries that could become cornerstones of the future U.S. economy. [News Source]

Global warming helped Inca empire rise, scientists say. A period of global warming contributed to the rise of the Inca empire, allowing it to increase food production by planting at higher altitudes on farmland irrigated with water from melting glaciers, a team of European and American scientists say. [News Source]

Spacecraft may give early heads-up on infection trends. Satellite technology could give public health officials advance warning of disease outbreaks likely to occur as a result of global climate change, researchers said. [News Source]

Trees are going up in the world. Global warming ought to mean that trees can live at higher altitudes, as the warmer temperatures should allow saplings to establish themselves further up on mountainsides than their parents. As it turns out, this is true only around half the time. [News Source]

Glacier is melting four times faster than decade ago. An antarctic glacier twice the size of Scotland is losing ice more quickly than it was a decade ago, scientists warned yesterday. [News Source]

Antarctic meltdown: glacier larger than Scotland shrinking four times faster than last decade. An Antarctic glacier twice the size of Scotland is melting much faster than scientists had bargained for. [News Source]

Antarctic glacier melting at faster rate: scientists. One of the largest glaciers in Antarctica is thinning at a rate four-times faster than just a decade ago, researchers said Friday. [News Source]

Hurricanes now stronger and more frequent than anytime in past 1,000 years. Two hurricane studies reached conclusions that seem to be at odds, continuing the long scientific debate about global warming and other longterm influences on hurricane activity. [News Source]

USDA puts climate, water at top of forest priorities. Restoring national forests to prepare them for climate change and to protect water resources will be the overarching goal of U.S. forest policy, Tom Vilsack, who heads the U.S. Department of Agriculture, announced on Friday. [News Source]

PetroAlgae expects initial revenues this year. Companies are racing to make fuel from algae as the U.S. government threatens to crack down on carbon dioxide emissions blamed for global warming. [News Source]