No deal on key issues as climate talks end The United States was heavily criticized Friday at U.N. climate talks for failing to offer emission cuts or financing for developing countries — both considered key to reaching a pact this year. [News Source]

A man, a plane, a very big picture. From his Cessna, Bruce Gordon provides politicians, reporters and others with an eye-opening view of an American West increasingly fractured by energy and resource development. With video. [News Source]

Tropics face fish famine due to climate change, report warns. The first study to look at how climate change will affect food supplies offshore warns of severe declines in fish stocks in some of the world's poorest regions. [News Source]

Defiant chamber chief says ‘bring ’em on’. The chief of the United States Chamber of Commerce, under fire for vocal opposition to climate change regulation, says that the vast majority of the group's members support its position. [News Source]

Philippines landslides kill more than 150 after floods. More than 150 people are feared dead in massive landslides in the mountains of the northern Philippines after days of torrential rain saturated hillside soil, sending it tumbling down onto villages and towns below, officials said. [News Source]

Just how sensitive is Earth’s climate to atmospheric carbon dioxide? Carbon dioxide levels climbing toward a doubling of the 280 parts per million concentration found in the preindustrial atmosphere pose the question: What impact will this increased greenhouse gas load have on the climate? [News Source]

Summer dead zones off Oregon coast here to stay, OSU researchers say. The waters off Oregon's coast experienced low-oxygen conditions for the eighth consecutive year in 2009, Oregon State University researchers said Thursday, an indication that late summer "hypoxic" conditions are here to stay. [News Source]

Ocean dead zone off Oregon not as bad as past years. The ocean dead zone that formed this summer off Oregon was less severe than in years past, but it looks like the phenomenon apparently linked to global warming is here to stay. [News Source]

Cap and trade will signal U.S. ready to clean up act. The collision of cultures and commerce over health-care reform soon may pale in comparison to the clash over climate-change legislation. [News Source]

High cost of climate fees. California's climate police have begun charging businesses millions of dollars in global warming fees to enforce arbitrary regulations, even as their federal counterparts move to forcibly reduce industrial greenhouse gas emissions with even more costly regulations. [News Source]

Apocalypse now. The economic crisis is real enough, but there is another crisis that is potentially apocalyptic in a way that more closely resembles the atomic bomb. And that is the climate crisis. [News Source]