Allergy awareness important for Indian youth: New chief of world body. Although earlier considered largely a disease of the western world, a rise in allergic diseases is now seen in emerging economies like India and China. [News Source]

Sea-level rise slowly becomes issue in Outer Banks. Coastal scientists are predicting that rising seas could drown much of North Carolina's Outer Banks by the next century, but the issue is just starting to be recognized as a looming crisis in league with beach erosion. [News Source]

Maldives pledges deepest carbon emission cut by 2020. Maldives has voluntarily pledged to slash carbon emissions 100 percent by 2020, which is the deepest cut promised by any country so far under an international accord, the Indian Ocean archipelago said. [News Source]

Silicon Valley tech leaders are reinventing themselves for a cleantech revolution. Reinvention is at the heart of cleantech, and several of the sector's leading entrepreneurs have transformed themselves to pursue these massive new market opportunities. [News Source]

IMF working on plans for green fund. The International Monetary Fund is working on proposals for a multibillion dollar "green fund" to help countries tap funds to deal with the effects of climate change, the head of the institution said on Saturday. [News Source]

The long and winding road after Copenhagen. After the near-train wreck of last month's Copenhagen climate summit, what lies ahead for efforts to beat back global warming? Next week may yield the first clues. [News Source]

Illinois ‘clean coal’ plants await their fate. After years of planning and politicking, two next-generation power plants planned for central Illinois face their respective days of reckoning. [News Source]

UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation and magazine article. The revelation will cause fresh embarrassment for the The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which had to issue a humiliating apology earlier this month over inaccurate statements about global warming. [News Source]

UN climate panel shamed by bogus rainforest claim. A startling report by the United Nations climate watchdog that global warming might wipe out 40% of the Amazon rainforest was based on an unsubstantiated claim by green campaigners who had little scientific expertise. [News Source]

Antarctica: A frozen hotbed of climate research for hardy scientists. Scientists search not for fame, but for answers about the same climate that once tortured and killed their polar adventuring forebears. [News Source]

Ed Miliband declares war on climate change sceptics. The climate secretary last night warned of the danger of a public backlash against the science of global warming in the face of continuing claims that experts have manipulated data. [News Source]