Fears over local forest. A local environment group is outraged that Dardanup Forest could be destroyed and has urged the community to stand up against the logging plans. [News Source]

How fundraising helped shape Obama’s green agenda. Once again, there are questions about whether a new President's approach to energy is a product of Washington's unchanged, pay-to-play culture in which political supporters are offered special access to the policymaking process. [News Source]

How fundraising helped shape Obama’s green agenda. Once again, there are questions about whether a new President's approach to energy is a product of Washington's unchanged, pay-to-play culture in which political supporters are offered special access to the policymaking process. [News Source]

‘Famine marriages’ just one byproduct of climate change. The negative fallout from climate change is having a devastatingly lopsided impact on women compared to men, from higher death rates during natural disasters to heavier household and care burdens. [News Source]

‘Famine marriages’ just one byproduct of climate change. The negative fallout from climate change is having a devastatingly lopsided impact on women compared to men, from higher death rates during natural disasters to heavier household and care burdens. [News Source]

Health and life insurers grapple with climate effects. Biting bugs are buzzing northward and asthma has spread like a dust cloud, but there are deep divisions about how concerned health and life insurers should be about disease and death caused by climate change. [News Source]

Health and life insurers grapple with climate effects. Biting bugs are buzzing northward and asthma has spread like a dust cloud, but there are deep divisions about how concerned health and life insurers should be about disease and death caused by climate change. [News Source]

Was Waxman-Markey a waste of energy? The effort to tackle global warming via a cap-and-trade scheme is officially "dead," says Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). So, where does that leave the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade legislation that squeaked through the House last summer by a single vote after months of convoluted dealmaking? [News Source]

Was Waxman-Markey a waste of energy? The effort to tackle global warming via a cap-and-trade scheme is officially "dead," says Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). So, where does that leave the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade legislation that squeaked through the House last summer by a single vote after months of convoluted dealmaking? [News Source]

New South Wales rains raise hopes of end to drought. Since Christmas, parched areas of New South Wales, Australia's most populous state, have received their best rains in a decade, fuelling hopes the continent's worst drought in a century may finally be easing. [News Source]

New South Wales rains raise hopes of end to drought. Since Christmas, parched areas of New South Wales, Australia's most populous state, have received their best rains in a decade, fuelling hopes the continent's worst drought in a century may finally be easing. [News Source]