Mighty caribou herds dwindle, warming blamed

Biologists  believe the impact of climate change, its tipping of natural balances and disruption of feeding habits, is decimating caribou herds that have long numbered in the millions.

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Arctic seas turn to acid, putting vital food chain at risk. Research carried out in the archipelago of Svalbard has shown in many regions around the north pole seawater is likely to reach corrosive levels within 10 years. [News Source]

Pulling the plug on Pee Dee plant. A little-known executive with a little-known company worked behind the scene, with Santee Cooper's blessing, to find a way to make an expensive and polluting coal-fired power plant unnecessary. [News Source]

New script for India on climate change: Altering its tactics to protect its interests. India’s public stance on climate change is usually predictable — predictably obstinate and unwilling to compromise. But at the UN, India’s delegation toned down its usual criticisms of the industrialized world [News Source]

Biogas brings ‘green revolution’ to rural Nepal. Nepalese villager Khinu Darai used to have to walk about five kilometres every day to collect firewood so she could cook meals for her family. Then two years ago, she bought a biogas plant - an event the 30-year-old mother of three says transformed her life. [News Source]

Schwarzenegger hopes to color the state even greener. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger last week cut quickly to a debate gaining intensity in his Republican Party: Should the state's passion for environmental protection survive a foundering economy? [News Source]

Soot clouds pose threat to Himalayan glaciers. Fumes from wood fires and from diesel engines accelerate melting, Indian scientists warn. [News Source]

Maine among pioneers of cap-and-trade carbon control. A national cap-and-trade plan introduced to the U.S. Senate last week is based, at least in part, on the lessons learned in Maine. A one-year-old experiment with carbon cap-and-trade has so far generated $13.5 million for energy conservation efforts in Maine. [News Source]

Greenpeace protesters unfurl ‘Climate SOS’ banner at Shell site in Alberta. More than a dozen Greenpeace activists scaled tall smokestacks and a construction crane at a Shell oilsands upgrader expansion project northeast of Edmonton on Saturday in the group's latest attempt to call for action on climate change. [News Source]

Professor David Mackay: Britain ‘must go nuclear’ to control climate. The government’s chief scientific adviser on climate change has proposed a quadrupling of Britain’s nuclear power generation to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. [News Source]

Proposed nuclear plants could affect WVa coal. West Virginia Sen. Dan Foster co-sponsored a bill this spring to repeal West Virginia's effective ban on nuclear power in the state. The bill did not pass. Whether West Virginia welcomes a nuclear renaissance within its borders or not, the state likely will feel its effects. [News Source]