China, U.S., Europe clash at climate talks China's top climate envoy insisted Wednesday that it is unfair to expect all countries to play a role in combating global warming, leading to a rare public spat with delegates from the U.S. and Europe. [News Source]

Giants in cattle industry agree to help fight deforestation. Environmental groups hailed a decision by four of the world’s largest meat producers to ban the purchase of cattle from newly deforested areas of Brazil’s Amazon rain forest, a major step forward for climate protection. [News Source]

Public Citizen sues state, urging regulation of carbon dioxide emissions. Texas environmentalists sued Tuesday to force the state to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases as pollutants, which the Obama administration is preparing to do on a national scale. [News Source]

Health ‘forgotten’ in climate talks. Doctors and environmentalists believe the impact of climate change on public health has been largely ignored by policymakers as global leaders step up talks ahead of December's Copenhagen summit. [News Source]

Planetary boundaries? Go ask the Romans. Scientists propose guardrails for how far mankind can push the planet tomorrow, while others examine how far collapsed civilizations pushed it yesterday. [News Source]

Pickens power makes Al Gore convenient truth in U.S. oil policy. If the U.S. passes legislation that embraces natural gas, Pickens will have succeeded in one of his most ambitious feats yet: rallying Democrats and environmentalists behind the plan of a billionaire Texas oilman. [News Source]

Is the Arctic ready to give up its treasures? Global warming could reveal lucrative reserves of untapped oil, gas and precious metals beneath the ice caps in the near future - but at what environmental cost? [News Source]

Climate agency sees China’s efforts paying dividends. A new report finds that China’s emphasis on nuclear power and clean energy is achieving bigger cuts in carbon emissions than expected. [News Source]

Burning coal deep down has huge potential, untested. Burning coal underground could be one of the next breakthroughs to increase the world's energy supply, similar to establishment of Canadian oil sands, executives and academics told a conference in London on Monday. [News Source]

Downturn is ‘climate opportunity.’ The global recession provides a window of opportunity to curb climate change and build a low-carbon future, says the International Energy Agency (IEA). [News Source]

Tropical forests: Will the U.S. ride to the rescue? A recent report by a blue-ribbon panel estimates that if American companies invest $9 billion by 2020 in preserving tropical forests in developing countries, they can save $50 billion that they would have had to spend on cleaning up their own carbon dioxide emissions. [News Source]