‘Alarming’ melt of Indian Kashmir glaciers Indian Kashmir's glaciers are melting fast because of rising temperatures, threatening the water supply of millions of people in the Himalayan region, a new study by Indian scientists says. [News Source]

Himalayan sherpas bugged by the sight of house flies at 5,000m. House flies at Everest basecamp are another sign of climate change that is melting glaciers with worrying speed. [News Source]

Nobel economics prize won by first woman. A political scientist from Indiana University whose work exploring how people come together to preserve their collective resources may provide important clues in the fight against climate change has become the first woman to win the Nobel prize for economics. [News Source]

Transforming clean-energy industry into a local one. Bruce Gomm is at the forefront of a movement called community power, the idea that neighborhoods and towns can install their own renewable power sources and rely less on electricity that flows from distant realms. [News Source]

Memo calls for reversing law to phase out German nuclear plants. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives want to overturn a law aimed discontinuing the use of atomic energy by the 2020s, according to a party working document. [News Source]

Global warming ‘to triple rain over Taiwan’ Global warming will cause the amount of heavy rain dumped on Taiwan to triple over the next 20 years, facing the government with the urgent need to beef up flood defences, a scientist warned Tuesday. [News Source]

Experts warn glaciers in Indian Kashmir melting. Indian Kashmir's glaciers are melting fast because of rising temperatures, threatening the water supply of millions of people in the Himalayan region, a new study by Indian scientists says. [News Source]

Carbon capture coal tech must be ready by 2019. A technology to bury underground the greenhouse gas emissions produced from burning coal must be ready for global deployment by 2017-2019, U.S. energy secretary Steven Chu said on Monday. [News Source]

Brumby’s dirty secret: Coal for export. Confidential cabinet documents obtained by The Age show the Brumby Government is considering offering billions of tonnes of Latrobe Valley coal for tender next year. [News Source]

Cut soot, slow climate change. Global warming is caused by excess of greenhouse gases, mainly carbon dioxide, but cutting down other pollutants such as soot can help slow climate change in a big way, say the world's leading scientists, including an Indian American [News Source]

Himalayan sherpas bugged by the sight of house flies at 5,000m. House flies at Everest basecamp are another sign of climate change that is melting glaciers with worrying speed. [News Source]