Natural gas hits a roadblock in new energy bill. Lawmakers from coal-producing states appear committed to keeping coal as the nation’s primary producer of power. [News Source]

Climate change boosts ultraviolet risk. Climate change will disrupt Earth's precious ozone layer, boosting ultraviolet radiation in the deep southern hemisphere and reducing UV in far northern latitudes, a study warns. [News Source]

Dengue becoming unstoppable. The mosquito-borne disease dengue has become unstoppable due to climate change, according to global health experts who advised nations to institute more aggressive elimination drives to stem the disease that sickens over 50 million and kills 24,000 worldwide every year. [News Source]

Company fights climate change ruling by employment tribunal. A controversial tribunal decision that some company practices can discriminate against employees with strongly held views on climate change will be challenged in the courts. [News Source]

‘Bubbling cauldrons of gas.’ Unimaginable quantities of methane — a greenhouse gas 20 to 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide — are stored underground in the Arctic. Some of it is leaking out. The consequence of all that seeping methane has become one of the biggest questions in climate science. [News Source]

India doesn’t want to pay for climate change, but it’s already feeling the costs. India is in the midst of a massive drought that could imperil basic food for millions of people. And yet, outside India, the country is known for what is perceived as intransigence on the subject of climate change. [News Source]

Farmers warned to get ready as climate change threatens crops. Even if global temperatures rise slowly, climate change could slash the yields of some of the world's most important crops almost in half, according to a new study co-authored by an N.C. State University scientist. [News Source]

South America: Glaciers - going, going…gone? South America is perhaps most often associated with the Amazon jungle, the world's largest tropical rainforest. But along its western edge, from Ecuador to southern Chile and Argentina, it also harbours huge glaciers which are rapidly melting due to global warming. [News Source]

Sen. Barbara Boxer the force behind upcoming energy bill. U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer is preparing to introduce climate-change legislation that would significantly alter the course of the nation's energy policy. [News Source]

Rising seas demand better family planning. Family planning is not at present being considered in the context of climate change, even though national adaptation programmes to climate change of the less developed countries point out the link between population growth and pressure on the environment. [News Source]

Tidal river plan could allay climate threat in Bangladesh’s SW. Bangladesh stands on the front line of the global battle against climate change, with concerns growing that rising seas could displace millions of people. An increasing body of evidence is now suggesting traditional river management techniques hold an answer. [News Source]