Arctic trek confirms very thin sea ice

The North Pole will turn into an open sea during summer within a decade, according to data released Wednesday by a team of explorers who trekked through the Arctic for three months.

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Forests as carbon offsets fail to impress in first big trial. A report Greenpeace will release Thursday questions the premise of using forest conservation overseas to compensate for U.S. pollution. [News Source]

Biggest obstacle to global climate deal may be how to pay for it. As world leaders struggle to hash out a new global climate deal by December, they face a hurdle perhaps more formidable than getting big polluters like the U.S. and China to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: how to pay for the new accord. [News Source]

The trouble facing Canadian rivers. Many of Canada's major rivers are in trouble and have suffered major alterations in their natural flows due to hydro dams, irrigation schemes and withdrawals by industry, and could be further compromised by the effects of global warming, a new report contends. [News Source]

‘Toxic legacy’ seeps from melting Alpine glaciers. Alpine glaciers melting under the impact of climate change are releasing highly toxic pollutants, including dioxins and pesticides like DDT that had been absorbed by the ice for decades, Swiss researchers warned in a study. [News Source]

Dam managers called liars. Amid finger-pointing, a Senate committee Wednesday agreed to help craft a protocol in releasing excess water from dams, following the incessant rain and devastating flooding last week that submerged 38 towns and cities in Pangasinan province. [News Source]

Climate change hitting sooner and stronger. The UN Environment Programme has released an updated summary of the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It warns that many predictions that were at the upper ranges of 2007 IPCC forecasts are increasingly likely--and some are occurring already. [News Source]

Forests as carbon offsets fail to impress in first big trial. A report Greenpeace will release Thursday questions the premise of using forest conservation overseas to compensate for U.S. pollution. [News Source]

Biggest obstacle to global climate deal may be how to pay for it. As world leaders struggle to hash out a new global climate deal by December, they face a hurdle perhaps more formidable than getting big polluters like the U.S. and China to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: how to pay for the new accord. [News Source]

The trouble facing Canadian rivers. Many of Canada's major rivers are in trouble and have suffered major alterations in their natural flows due to hydro dams, irrigation schemes and withdrawals by industry, and could be further compromised by the effects of global warming, a new report contends. [News Source]

‘Toxic legacy’ seeps from melting Alpine glaciers. Alpine glaciers melting under the impact of climate change are releasing highly toxic pollutants, including dioxins and pesticides like DDT that had been absorbed by the ice for decades, Swiss researchers warned in a study. [News Source]