Climate concerns spur changes in U.S. military. Though some conservative politicians and activists in Washington remain unconvinced of the need for action, the U.S. military is taking the effects of climate change increasingly seriously. [News Source]

The Greening of Silicon Valley: It looks like the next big thing. For companies in the environmental vanguard, their corporate campuses are laboratories to test new technologies to cut their carbon footprints and improve the bottom line. Much of the climate change action has shifted to the private sector. [News Source]

Germany, Mexico trying to push climate talks ahead. Five months after the troubled United Nations conference in Copenhagen, Germany and Mexico are teaming up in an effort to break the deadlock in negotiations on a global climate deal. [News Source]

Vying for a role as Climate Chief. International Institute for Sustainable Development Christiana Figueres, the lead climate negotiator for Costa Rica, is a candidate to succeed Yvo de Boer as head of the United Nations climate secretariat. [News Source]

SAARC plans expert group on climate change. With Bangladesh and Maldives seeking firmer commitments to reduce emissions, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation issued a watered down declaration Thursday to develop a clear policy direction and guidance for regional cooperation on climate change. [News Source]

Scientists plan algae ‘alchemy’ to turn paddies into oil fields. As Japan's rice fields turn fallow and its farming communities decline, a new army of workers is preparing to make the countryside fertile again. This time the crop is motor fuel and the laborers are microscopic algae. [News Source]

Obama administration advances Cape Wind, but challenges remain. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar injected life into the fledgling offshore wind industry yesterday by approving the nation's first project off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass. [News Source]

Study: Evidence for an Arctic climate feedback loop. Climate scientists have always maintained that their understanding of global warming is far from 100%. What they do know is that climate change is real, potentially dangerous and largely due to human activity. [News Source]

Renewable energy and the environment. For a country like Guyana, renewable energy is more than an environmental option. It is a critical economic choice that influences quality-of-life issues. [News Source]

UAE at centre of UN green energy drive. The UAE has taken a central role in a United Nations initiative to boost electricity supplies in the developing world without dramatically raising greenhouse gas emissions by scaling up renewable energy and other green technologies. [News Source]

Climate research shows plant methane production ’small.’ Plants remain "an effective way" of tackling global warming despite emitting small amounts of a greenhouse gas, a study has shown. [News Source]