U.S. EPA’s moves against climate change. As the U.S. Congress fights over legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming, the Obama administration is considering a series of regulations that also would cut such pollutants. [News Source]

Rules give air polluters a gap to slip through. South Africa’s biggest air polluters, who collectively belch a 400 million ton carbon cloud into the atmosphere, may be exempted from a new national deadline for big industry to clean up their act. [News Source]

Greenland rising. Global warming isn't bad news for everybody. In Greenland, the big melt could mean a flood of new revenue from mineral and oil deposits— previously trapped under ice. Flush with prospects, the locals are talking about making a final break from their benevolent colonizer, Denmark. Call it the Thaw Revolution. [News Source]

WWU geologist hopes glacier will reveal climate secrets. A glacier more than 650 feet thick in a remote region of British Columbia holds clues to climate patterns stretching back hundreds of years. [News Source]

Next ice age delayed by global warming. Humans are putting the brakes on the next ice age, according to the most extensive study to date on Arctic climate change. The Arctic is now warmer than it's been in the past 2,000 years—a trend that is reversing a natural cooling cycle dictated by a wobble in Earth's axis. [News Source]

Study links humans to warming in arctic. Arctic temperatures are now higher than at any time in the last 2,000 years, research reveals. Changes to the Earth's orbit drove centuries of cooling, but temperatures rose fast in the last 100 years as human greenhouse gas emissions rose. [News Source]

The second wave. After years as energy-efficiency laggards, China and a number of other fast-growing emerging markets are putting a high priority on energy efficiency and restraining oil demand. China [News Source]

5 last-ditch schemes to avert warming disaster. Radical, globe-spanning schemes—including giant space mirrors and high-tech "trees"—may someday be needed to prevent a global warming disaster, unless greenhouse gas emissions are cut considerably, a new study says. [News Source]

Pollution cops set carpool example. The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District's Modesto office, which employs about 40 people, including some from Stockton, has saved 371,480 miles through its carpool program since 1992, officials said recently. [News Source]

UK woods ‘tackle climate change’. The UK's woodlands will be "hugely important" in efforts to tackle climate change and cope with its impacts, the Forestry Commission said as it launched the most comprehensive survey of our forests ever undertaken. [News Source]

India carbon emissions to triple by 2030. India's per capita greenhouse gas emissions are expected to nearly triple in the next two decades, but will still remain below the current global average, a government-backed report said. [News Source]