C.I.A. is sharing data with climate scientists. The nation’s top scientists and spies are collaborating on an effort to use the federal government’s intelligence assets — including spy satellites and other classified sensors — to assess the hidden complexities of environmental change. [News Source]

Masachussetts unveils landmark ocean-management plan. Massachusetts has released the final version of a landmark ocean-management plan, creating a vast regulatory map for the state's coastal waters and setting new limits for offshore wind farms. [News Source]

Mount Rainier glacier gravel filling rivers. The fallout from Mount Rainier's shrinking glaciers is beginning to roll downhill, and nowhere is the impact more striking than on the volcano's west side. [News Source]

The comparative costs of climate change. How much will mitigating global warming or climate chage cost the world? Here are some comparisons. [News Source]

Path from climate summit unclear for many. When presidents and prime ministers departed the U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen last month, they left behind a vast legal tangle that experts have barely begun to unravel. [News Source]

Trash to gas: Landfill energy projects increasing. Hundreds of trash trucks across California are rumbling down city streets using clean fuel made from a dirty source: garbage. [News Source]

Invasive species multiply in U.S. waterways. As 2010, the U.N.'s International Year of Biodiversity, gets underway, a fight against some of the most damaging invasive species in U.S. waterways is heating up. [News Source]

Where on earth will we store all that captured CO2? Try the East Coast. Carbon capture and storage—sucking the CO2 from power plant or industrial smokestack emissions—has been cited by everyone from the Bush administration to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as a key technology in any effort to combat climate change. [News Source]

Study says Michigan climate plan would boost economy. Michigan could gain a significant economic boost and thousands of new jobs by reducing emissions of gases that cause climate change, according to an analysis released Monday. [News Source]

Australia baked under hottest decade on record. Australia experienced its hottest decade on record from 2000 to 2009 due to global warming, the nation's bureau of meteorology said on Tuesday, as annual summer bushfires again burn drought lands and destroy homes. [News Source]

China blames freak storm on global warming. Freak snowstorms and record low temperatures sweeping northern China are linked to global warming, say Chinese officials. Wednesday morning the mercury is forecast to plunge to minus 16, a 40-year low, after a day-time maximum of minus 8. [News Source]