Architects plan ‘amphibious landscape’ for NYC. The New York Museum of Modern Art has asked architectural teams to come up with plans for transforming the metropolitan area's coastlines after warmer oceans and melting Antarctic ice have raised global sea levels, something many scientists predict is inevitable. [News Source]

Basalt vaults could store CO2 and turn it to rock. A new analysis suggests basalt formations off the east coast of the United States could store billions of tons of the carbon dioxide and then transform it into rock. [News Source]

Costs of managing nuclear risk slows construction of new power stations. Would a reassessment of the risks posed by radiation actually cut the costs and boost the nuclear production of low-carbon electricity which the government says is essential to tackle global warming? The short answer is doubtful. [News Source]

California ties cash to energy. On Monday, a state panel proposed that the lion's share of new fees California plans to impose on greenhouse-gas emissions should be returned to consumers in the form of annual dividend checks that eventually could exceed $1,000 for a family of four. [News Source]

Time to include carbon in forest management. Global warming is going to force forest-rich British Columbia to rethink the way forests are managed, putting carbon storage at the top of the list, according to a new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. [News Source]

DWP chief pitches solar farm. The head of the LA Department of Water and Power told Owens Valley residents that the utility will explore the viability of installing massive solar arrays near Lone Pine that potentially could generate the equivalent of a million household's worth of power [News Source]

UK emissions cuts ‘meaningless’ without global deal, warn MPs. Action in the UK to cut greenhouse gas emissions could be rendered "meaningless" if a global deal on tackling climate change is not secured, a committee of MPs warned today. [News Source]

Germany sticking to ambitious CO2 target. Germany will stick to a more ambitious goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2020 even though the U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen fell short of expectations, a government adviser said on Monday. [News Source]

Madagascar sanctions logging of national parks. Madagascar has legalized the export of rosewood logs, possibly ushering in renewed logging of the country's embattled rainforest parks - contradicting France's negotiating position at climate talks in Copenhagen. [News Source]

Animals under fire in methane blame game. The kangaroo situation does not make Alcock and many other graziers particularly well-inclined towards those in the climate change debate who brand their sheep and cattle as villains in global warming. [News Source]

Climate clash in Midwest could trigger more border challenges. Climate change may have sparked its first border war. Two states are in early maneuvers for a potential legal battle over one's effort to curtail carbon and another's aspiration to become an energy "powerhouse." [News Source]