Maldives: Paradise threatened? The first landmass victim of sea level rise could be a place that defines tropical flawlessness, a nation that is clean, peaceful and doing its best to be green. [News Source]

Living on Earth’s look back. Two prominent environmental historians take a look at the ecological landmarks and environmental nightmares of the past decade. [News Source]

Pine beetles transform B.C. forests into greenhouse enemy. In a single season, an army of pine beetles has transformed our allies in the battle against climate change into the enemy. [News Source]

Why Antarctica isn’t melting much - yet. Antarctica is warming, but not melting anything like as much as expected. In fact, during the continent's summer this time last year, there was less melting than at any time in the 30 years that we have had reliable satellite measurements of the region. [News Source]

Beleaguered U.S. climate bill seeks Obama lift. President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech to Congress could indicate how badly he wants a global warming bill, which opponents say will cost U.S. jobs and raise prices – a scary prospect for politicians trying to ride out a horrible economy in an election year. [News Source]

State lawmakers, business groups reject proposed greenhouse gas limits. A bipartisan legislative panel Friday voted to delay the creation of rules to regulate greenhouse gases as a pollutant in Montana, after a host of business interests objected to the initiative. [News Source]

The Copenhagen disaccord. We have entered the post-Copenhagen era of climate politics--but just what that means is still very much undecided. The summit was widely regarded as humanity's last good chance to prevent catastrophic climate change. It plainly fell short of that goal, but giving up is not an option. [News Source]

EU to pursue climate deal through G-20. The EU said Friday it will pursue a new deal on global warming through the Group of 20, since last month's U.N. climate conference of nearly 200 nations led to unwieldy negotiations that didn't accomplish much. [News Source]

China says achieved goal in Copenhagen climate deal. Chinese negotiators achieved their goal at Copenhagen climate talks in ensuring financial aid for developing nations was not linked to external reviews of China's environmental plans, its top climate envoy said on Saturday. [News Source]

Debate heats up over IPCC melting glaciers claim. Glaciologists are this week arguing over how a highly contentious claim about the speed at which glaciers are melting came to be included in the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. [News Source]

Stashing carbon dioxide in rocks. Basalt formations off the East Coast of the U.S. could suck up a billion tons of carbon dioxide, according to a new study. [News Source]