Cars homes drinking water ‘under threat.’ The availability of fresh drinking water in the Bahamas could be jeopardised by climate change and hurricanes, warned State Environment Minister Phenton Neymour, who said this country urgently needs proper water networks and management policies. [News Source]

California looks to Australia for lessons on water management. A delegation of California water leaders recently visited Australia to learn lessons on water management in the face of drought and climate change. [News Source]

China to move ahead on clean energy “combustible ice.” China's western Qinghai Province, containing major deposits of the country's "combustible ice," will see increased explorations for this emerging clean energy, Provincial Governor Luo Huining said on Saturday. [News Source]

Will India formally associate with Copenhagen accord again? India’s presence in the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon’s high level advisory panel on climate change finance appears to indicate New Delhi’s move towards formally associating with the Copenhagen Accord. [News Source]

Hyperbole erodes credibility. After the Copenhagen shambles, IPCC head Rajendra Pachauri's alleged conflicts of interest and the fabricated propaganda of the University of East Anglia emails, proponents of climate change action need to rebuild credibility. [News Source]

Debunking climate debunkers. Naomi Oreskes said much of the skepticism about global warming originated years ago with a group of non-climate scientists who exploited scientific uncertainty — not for money or for true intellectual reasons, but for ideological reasons. [News Source]

Growing low-oxygen zones in oceans worry scientists. Lower levels of oxygen in the Earth's oceans, particularly off the Pacific Northwest coast, could be another sign of fundamental changes linked to global climate change, scientists say. [News Source]

The biofuel era - not on horizon - yet. In his State of the Union address in January 2007, former US President Bush emphasized developing biofuels, so as to reduce the American dependence on oil. [News Source]

Lifestyle in the UAE is unsustainable. Our lifestyle in the UAE is unsustainable, from home landscaping to suburban sprawl, from our car culture to the addiction to plastic; substantive efforts should be undertaken by people to limit their own carbon footprint. [News Source]

Three states sue EPA over global warming ruling. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which is threatening to regulate carbon emissions if Congress won’t, is facing legal heat from three states that have filed petitions to block the EPA from issuing new regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. [News Source]

Climate change skepticism a litmus test for Republicans. The shifts by several prominent Republicans away from supporting legislation to limit greenhouse gas emissions, to expressing doubt whether human activity has anything to do with a warming earth, reflect the rising power of climate change skeptics in the GOP. [News Source]