Report outlines climate change effects on US food production (Food Navigator USA) The report, The Effects of Climate Change on US Ecosystems, draws on a scientific assessment project commissioned by the US Global Change Research Program released last year, as well as more recent findings to provide additional detail. [News Source]

Climate change action grinds to a halt (BigPond News) Climate activists say an attempt to form a global strategy to fight climate change has ended in chaos. [News Source]

Climate change action grinds to a halt (Sky News Australia) The first decade of the 21st century dawned with a global strategy to fight climate change but ended in chaos. [News Source]

AP Poll: Most see climate change as serious (Park Hills Daily Journal) WASHINGTON (AP) — Three of every four Americans view climate change as a serious problem that will harm future generations if not addressed, according to an Associated Press-Stanford University poll. [News Source]

Australia’s coal addiction set in train 30 years ago. As the world battles to secure a low-carbon future, secret cabinet documents from 1979 show that before global warming was on the radar, Canberra acted to lock in Australia's coal-based energy future. [News Source]

Federal agencies may have to consider climate before they act. The Obama administration may issue an order that would expand the National Environmental Policy Act's scope to prevent global warming. The move could open up new avenues to challenge projects. [News Source]

California climate law faces opposition. Four years after California’s Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed off on the nation’s farthest-reaching global-warming law, a campaign is heating up to keep it from taking effect. [News Source]

Senate looms as bigger hurdle after Copenhagen. As hard as it was to negotiate a deal in Denmark, Obama faces an even tougher time in Washington trying to convince the U.S. Senate to pass cap-and-trade legislation. [News Source]

Hospitals and prisons rank bottom in public buildings CO2 audit. An audit of emissions from hospitals, prisons, police offices and museums has laid bare the toll they are taking on the environment. [News Source]

Adding sustainability into the bottom line is Mindy Lubber’s mission. As president of Ceres, the network of public interest groups working to build sustainability into the corporate bottom line, Mindy Lubber is a strong advocate for tying environmental consideration, policy and regulation to business economics. [News Source]

India begins work on inventory of marine life. To study the impact of global warming on marine life in the seas around India, the government has embarked on a major project to give them DNA barcodes to “create inventories of biodiversity." [News Source]