Obama Attends Climate Change Meeting in Asia- President Wants Arms-Control Deal With Russia (Fox News) SINGAPORE (AP) -- A senior Obama administration official says world leaders agree that next month's much-anticipated international summit on climate change will be a preliminary step that will require subsequent efforts to tackle global warming. [News Source]

US Official: Leaders meeting in Asia agree that accord on climate change will take time (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) SINGAPORE - A senior Obama administration official says world leaders agree that next month's much-anticipated international summit on climate change will be a preliminary step that will require subsequent efforts to tackle global warming. [News Source]

Obama to Attend Climate Change Breakfast at APEC Summit (Fox News) Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Mexican President Felipe Calderon organized what a White House official described as "an informal breakfast meeting on climate change" -- a meeting that was not part of the official APEC program. [News Source]

Climate change not man-made, say majority of Britons: poll (AFP via Yahoo! News) Less than half of Britons believes that human activity is to blame for global warming, according to a poll carried out for The Times newspaper and published on Saturday. [News Source]

France, Brazil unite behind common climate change position ahead of Copenhagen summit (Times & Transcript) Brazil and France endorsed a common position on fighting global warming Saturday before next month's U.N. climate change conference, pledging to pursue the goal of reducing emissions to 50 per cent below 1990 levels by 2050. [News Source]

Global climate change treaty unlikely (CBC.ca) U.S. President Barack Obama and nearly two dozen fellow leaders from Canada, Asia and Europe meeting in Singapore agreed Sunday that next month's climate change meetings will be a way station - not the end point - in the search for a new worldwide treaty to tackle global warming. [News Source]

Big profit from nature protection. Money invested in protecting nature can bring huge financial returns, according to a major investigation into the costs and benefits of the natural world. [News Source]

Turtle tours, and turtles, are casualties of climate change in Costa Rica. Warmer temperatures and rising seas that scientists link to global warming have vastly diminished the turtle population that has dwelt in the Pacific for 150 million years. [News Source]

If EPA’s Air chief loves a brawl, she’s come to the right place . U.S. EPA air chief Gina McCarthy has a thick Boston accent, a shock of cropped white hair and a penchant for a good fight. As the nation's top air regulator she may be in the center of a political free-for-all over climate regulation and other air pollution policies. [News Source]

Death toll from snow in North China rises to 40. Unusually early snowstorms in north China have claimed at least 40 lives in weather-related accidents and caused billions of yuan in damage, the Civil Affairs Ministry said yesterday. The snowfall is the heaviest recorded in the area in at least 50 years. [News Source]

Earth, wind or fire. Britain's power is now relatively clean. Per head, Britons produce half the CO2 emissions of Australians. Could Australia achieve the same? Could we simply shut down coal-fired power generation and replace it with something else? [News Source]