Enviros waging ‘orchestrated pressure campaign’ on climate bill—U.S. Chamber CEO. Tom Donohue charged that defections of high-profile companies from his group are part of an "orchestrated pressure campaign" by environmental groups and signaled that his influential business association won't shift its stance on climate change policy. [News Source]

Environmental groups respond sharply to their ouster. The battle waged against a major coal company by Hopi and Navajo activists and against large environmental groups by tribal officials has intensified the conflict playing out in northern Arizona over the control, preservation and use of cultural and natural resources. [News Source]

Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize in part for confronting ‘great climatic challenges.’ President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize today in part for what the award's organizers said was a "more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting." [News Source]

ANWR debate will heat up as caribou dwindle. Biologists believe the insidious impact of climate change, its tipping of natural balances and disruption of feeding habits, is devastating a species that has long numbered in the millions and supported human life in Earth's most inhuman climate. [News Source]

Solar power outshining Colorado’s gas industry. The sun had just crested the distant ridge of the Rocky Mountains, but already it was producing enough power for the electric meter on the side of the Smiley Building to spin backward. [News Source]

Trouble at third pole. The Himalayas, home to the largest glaciers outside the two poles, is feeling the heat of climate change. [News Source]

Turning the tide. Human activity and coastal erosion have swallowed Bangkok beach, which once stretched for about 5km, and was mostly covered by mangrove forest, but the Khlongpittayalongkorn School is doing their part to fight against the rising tide by replanting mangroves. [News Source]

Can Mohamed Nasheed save the Maldives — and the rest of the world — from the rising seas? The Maldives president roused the Tory faithful at Manchester last week. Next Saturday he will hold an underwater cabinet meeting to highlight the dangers of global warming. [News Source]

Costa Rica’s president: It’s not easy staying green. Costa Rica, which has built a reputation as one of the world's greenest countries, has further ratcheted up its green ambitions by pledging to become one of the only developing nations to make itself "carbon neutral" — a zero net-emitter of carbon — by 2021. [News Source]

Potholes in road to Copenhagen climate accord widen during Bangkok talks. Norway unveiled an aggressive new emissions target—a move that environmental groups acknowledged is unlikely to prod new U.S. action but that many described as one of the few positive developments in a contentious, down-to-the-wire negotiating session. [News Source]

Climate of distrust. There is growing fear among developing nations that the United States is trying to sabotage the Kyoto Protocol in favour of a much weaker international agreement on global warming that U.S. lawmakers can sell at home. [News Source]