By 2050, 25m more children will go hungry as climate change leads to food crisis. Twenty-five million more children will go hungry by the middle of this century as climate change leads to food shortages and soaring prices for staples such as rice, wheat, maize and soya beans, a report says today. [News Source]

Curtain rises on Senate struggle over climate legislation. A draft of a climate bill that Senate Democrats will formally introduce on Wednesday suggests that the legislation will include a more ambitious greenhouse gas emissions target than one passed by the House. [News Source]

From turbines and straw, Danish self-sufficiency. A tiny island just completed a 10-year experiment to see whether it could become energy self-sufficient, and its residents say they have met the goal. [News Source]

Alternative energy projects stumble on a need for water. Many plans to meet the nation’s demand for power with renewable energy could consume billions of gallons of water every year. [News Source]

By 2050, 25m more children will go hungry as climate change leads to food crisis. Twenty-five million more children will go hungry by the middle of this century as climate change leads to food shortages and soaring prices for staples such as rice, wheat, maize and soya beans, a report says today. [News Source]

Senate climate bill tougher than House version. A Senate climate bill will require a 20 percent cut in greenhouse gases by 2020, deeper than the reductions mandated by the House, but also include stronger measures to try to avoid energy price spikes, according to a draft of the bill. [News Source]

From turbines and straw, Danish self-sufficiency. A tiny island just completed a 10-year experiment to see whether it could become energy self-sufficient, and its residents say they have met the goal. [News Source]

Landmark 2nd Circuit ruling may open gates for climate cases. Climate change lawsuits gained new urgency for environmentalists and industry groups alike last week when a federal appeals court ruled greenhouse gas emitters were responsible for creating a "public nuisance." Both sides see it as a potential game changer. [News Source]

Many support $100 billion a year on climate change. Many world leaders have expressed support for a proposal that would earmark $100 billion a year for the next decade for concrete actions to curb greenhouse gases and help countries cope with the impact of climate change, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. [News Source]

India plans to cut carbon and fuel poverty with untested nuclear power. India's prime minister today signalled a huge push in nuclear power over the coming decades, using an untested technology based on nuclear waste and the radioactive element thorium. [News Source]

More corporations are “greening” supply chains. For many companies, sustainability improvements were at first reactions to public criticism. Nowadays, corporations are recognizing that a more sustainable product has a better chance of remaining competitive in a resource-constrained world. [News Source]