Climate change one factor in malaria spread (Science Daily) Climate change is one reason malaria is on the rise in some parts of the world, new research finds, but other factors such as migration and land-use changes are likely also at play. The research aims to sort out contradictions that have emerged as scientists try to understand why malaria has been spreading into highland areas of East Africa, Indonesia, Afghanistan and elsewhere. [News Source]

Climate change one factor in malaria spread (Science Daily) Climate change is one reason malaria is on the rise in some parts of the world, new research finds, but other factors such as migration and land-use changes are likely also at play. The research aims to sort out contradictions that have emerged as scientists try to understand why malaria has been spreading into highland areas of East Africa, Indonesia, Afghanistan and elsewhere. [News Source]

Texas-based refiners pledge to fund fight against California’s global warming law (Los Angeles Times) Valero and Tesoro have reportedly pledged as much as $2 million to help gather signatures for a ballot initiative to suspend the greenhouse-gas-cutting law until the jobless rate improves. Two Texas-based refinery giants have pledged as much as $2 million to fund signature gathering for a ballot initiative to suspend California's landmark global warming law, according to Sacramento sources. [News Source]

Texas-based refiners pledge to fund fight against California’s global warming law (Los Angeles Times) Valero and Tesoro have reportedly pledged as much as $2 million to help gather signatures for a ballot initiative to suspend the greenhouse-gas-cutting law until the jobless rate improves. Two Texas-based refinery giants have pledged as much as $2 million to fund signature gathering for a ballot initiative to suspend California's landmark global warming law, according to Sacramento sources. [News Source]

Climate change hurting Tibet (Asia News Network) The impact of global warming is affecting the ecological environment of Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, accelerating glacial shrinkage, reducing snow and increasing land desertification, officials said. [News Source]

Climate change hurting Tibet (Asia News Network) The impact of global warming is affecting the ecological environment of Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, accelerating glacial shrinkage, reducing snow and increasing land desertification, of ..... [News Source]

Global warming: Fact vs. spin (Chicago Tribune) READERS: Ask us your questions about climate science at Trib Nation. We'll try to answer some of them in print. After snow blanketed Washington for several days last month, political opponents of efforts to address climate change pointed to the blustery weather as evidence that global warming is a hoax. [News Source]

Climate change reporting: balanced or biased? (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) What defines balance or bias in coverage of the climate change debate? [News Source]

Global warming will be felt over decades but not easy to see now (Catonsville Times) I was amazed to read Matthew Pasalic's letter (" Cause of rising temperatures often a measure of level of faith," Catonsville Times, Feb. 17), representing global warming as confirmed or unconfirmed by weather events in our region. In fact, global warming scientists predicted no changes that we could observe without instruments in the... [News Source]

EPA makes polluters pay less. The Environmental Protection Agency is riling many businesses with proposals to regulate greenhouse gases for the first time, but data suggest it has been slow out of the gate under President Barack Obama in enforcing existing regulations on traditional pollutants. [News Source]

Silicon Valley bets on clean tech, new energy solutions. The research and advisory company Cleantech Group estimates that by 2020, the global clean-tech sector will be worth more than $3 trillion and could account for as much as 15% of some nations' GDP. [News Source]