Climate-change skeptics gain from Ottawa funding. The federal government has been funding an asbestos lobby group that promotes the work of prominent climate-change skeptics. [News Source]

Climate change poses threat to Colombian coast. For more than 300 years, residents of Colombia's Pacific Coast area of Tumaco have mostly been left alone. But in recent years, the peace has been disturbed by new security threats, aggravated by climate change. [News Source]

World’s top polluter emerges as green-technology leader. China is the world's biggest source of carbon emissions. Less understood is the way China is now becoming a source of some of the solutions. [News Source]

Copenhagen talks enter final phase. By Friday, President Obama and about 115 other world leaders -- a number exceeded only by the annual U.N. General Assembly -- will gather for a single purpose: to put their mark on the international global warming negotiations. [News Source]

Clean energy measure would cost state jobs. A new study suggests Arkansas would lose tens of thousands of jobs under clean energy legislation before Congress. [News Source]

World’s top polluter emerges as green-technology leader. China is the world's biggest source of carbon emissions. Less understood is the way China is now becoming a source of some of the solutions. [News Source]

Climate change poses threat to Colombian coast. For more than 300 years, residents of Colombia's Pacific Coast area of Tumaco have mostly been left alone. But in recent years, the peace has been disturbed by new security threats, aggravated by climate change. [News Source]

Copenhagen talks enter final phase. By Friday, President Obama and about 115 other world leaders -- a number exceeded only by the annual U.N. General Assembly -- will gather for a single purpose: to put their mark on the international global warming negotiations. [News Source]

Changing climate means changing risk. Reinsurers are looking at climate change by determining how changing environment affects covered areas and properties. [News Source]

Rich nations step up pressure on Beijing. For the past year, developed countries have taken pains to praise China lavishly in public. But now the gloves are off. Developed countries, in private and in public, are putting the Chinese delegation under intense and co-ordinated pressure. [News Source]

UMW representative monitoring Copenhagen talks. As delegates from around the world continue talks about policies to address global warming, a lobbyist for the United Mine Workers is keeping an eye on the potential impact of those policies on the Appalachian coal industry. [News Source]