Obama orders agencies to cut carbon President Barack Obama is putting the U.S. government on a greenhouse-gas diet. [News Source]

China leads accusation from developing countries that rich nations are trying to sabotage climate treaty. The US and other developed countries are attempting to "fundamentally sabotage" the Kyoto protocol and international negotiations over its next phase, according to coordinated statements by China and 130 developing countries. [News Source]

Locals try sinking plan to store CO2 underground. Local residents are fighting plans by Vattenfall AB, the Swedish energy giant, to store millions of tons of the greenhouse gas in saline aquifers under the rolling fields of eastern Germany as part of an effort to reduce carbon emissions. [News Source]

Dead in the water. Fossil Lake, a 52m-year-old site in south-west Wyoming, has been known for the millions of beautifully preserved species in layers of limestone. But the mass deaths were not caused by a single event. Interspersing layers of ash show they were a regular occurrence. Until now, nobody has worked out what happened. [News Source]

Two tribes reject environmentalists. Last week, according to several sources, the Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribe have declared environmental groups unwelcome on the their reservations. [News Source]

China leads accusation from developing countries that rich nations are trying to sabotage climate treaty. The US and other developed countries are attempting to "fundamentally sabotage" the Kyoto protocol and international negotiations over its next phase, according to coordinated statements by China and 130 developing countries. [News Source]

UN’s forest protection scheme at risk from organised crime, experts warn. A revolutionary UN scheme to cut carbon emissions by paying poorer countries to preserve their forests is a recipe for corruption and will be hijacked by organised crime without safeguards, a Guardian investigation has found. [News Source]

Locals try sinking plan to store CO2 underground. Local residents are fighting plans by Vattenfall AB, the Swedish energy giant, to store millions of tons of the greenhouse gas in saline aquifers under the rolling fields of eastern Germany as part of an effort to reduce carbon emissions. [News Source]

New report urges quick, aggressive emissions cuts. A group of economists have come up with a simple formula for climate stabilization: Pay now, or pay a whole lot more later. [News Source]

Energy efficiency ranks high in China’s plans; CO2 is seldom discussed. From shuttering inefficient factories to investing in LED lighting, energy efficiency is serious business throughout China, but the work seems almost completely divorced from the business of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Second in a series. [News Source]

In case of sea change, dismantle house and go. In what may be a model for coastal developments in the global warming era, a developer of 200 beachfront homes will make it a legal requirement for new buyers to take their houses with them if they are forced to flee rising sea levels. [News Source]