Obama hobbled in fight against global warming. President Obama came into office pledging to end eight years of American inaction on climate change, but this weekend he was forced to acknowledge that a comprehensive climate deal was beyond reach this year. [News Source]

Indonesia: the home of “Green Islam.” Can Quranic teaching save the planet? Many in the world's most-populous Muslim nation think so. [News Source]

The two faces of China’s coal industry. The world's newest carbon citadel rises up between the blasted deserts of Inner Mongolia and the coal-black lands of Shaanxi province. Ordos hosts the planet's most efficient mine and one of China's biggest carbon capture and storage projects. [News Source]

U.S. may wind up green with envy. Despite recent advances, the U.S lags far behind other major countries when it comes to clean energy investment and experts say it may never lead, let alone compete on equal terms. [News Source]

Renewable power in search of on-demand storage technology. Utilities harnessing power from the wind and sun are up against a major challenge: how to store electricity so that it can be delivered to customers when the air is still and the sun has set. [News Source]

The really effective conservation steps, not just feel-good ones. Most people's feelings of helplessness aside, households represent a huge reservoir of untapped potential for reducing carbon emissions. [News Source]

Now what do the Copenhagen climate talks mean? The acknowledgment that a legally binding global warming treaty will take at least another year has dramatically lowered expectations for next month's climate negotiations in Copenhagen. Yet, this may have boosted the chances for landmark limits on greenhouse gas emissions by individual countries. [News Source]

U.S., Chinese cuts are key to reaching climate pact. The scaled-back climate strategy endorsed Sunday by President Obama and other leaders could put pressure on the U.S. and China to resolve the biggest stumbling block to an agreement -- how much they will cut greenhouse-gas emissions in the next decade. [News Source]

The President’s lonely dilemma. Can the world reach a new deal to combat climate change without the world's richest country, the world's sole superpower? Such is the question looming over the Copenhagen climate change summit. [News Source]

Nuclear energy high on Senate’s climate agenda. With crucial global climate talks less than a month away, US senators appear to be betting on nuclear energy as the key to finally passing sweeping domestic climate change legislation. [News Source]

Rallying Christians to the climate change fight. On Tuesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's chairman and ranking Republican, John Kerry and Richard Lugar, will hold a briefing that will bring scientists and evangelicals together to share their concerns about climate change. [News Source]