Prudence the watchword as climate talks resume. UN climate talks resume in Bonn today with negotiators branded by caution after the near-fiasco of the Copenhagen summit six months ago. [News Source]

Wave power could reduce dependency on oil. Within the rapidly expanding renewable energy sector, wave energy farms like one tested in Portugal are still a novelty. But not for long. [News Source]

As wind power booms, so do the challenges. Billions of dollars of investment during the past decade have created a wind power corridor that stretches more than 170 miles along the Columbia in Eastern Washington and Oregon, vaulting the Northwest to the leading edge of national efforts to develop this renewable energy source. [News Source]

Experts predict hurricane season impact on gulf oil spill. Hurricane season is approaching in the Atlantic and with its approach, worries about the dangers of a hurricane forming over the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico grow. If a hurricane occurs over the region, the winds are likely to disperse the oil to a larger area, government scientists warned. [News Source]

Frustration growing at ‘environmental crime’ of Gulf oil leak. US legislators called yesterday for BP and the Obama administration to do more to save the US Gulf Coast from an out-of-control oil spill that one congressman called an “environmental crime”. [News Source]

Prudence the watchword as climate talks resume. UN climate talks resume in Bonn today with negotiators branded by caution after the near-fiasco of the Copenhagen summit six months ago. [News Source]

Wave power could reduce dependency on oil. Within the rapidly expanding renewable energy sector, wave energy farms like one tested in Portugal are still a novelty. But not for long. [News Source]

As wind power booms, so do the challenges. Billions of dollars of investment during the past decade have created a wind power corridor that stretches more than 170 miles along the Columbia in Eastern Washington and Oregon, vaulting the Northwest to the leading edge of national efforts to develop this renewable energy source. [News Source]

Singapore chases green dollars in clean-tech race. The clean-tech sector is part of Singapore's efforts to try to gradually shift one of Asia's most energy-intensive economies onto a greener footing as well as tap a boom in green energy and services in the region. [News Source]

City council to take alternative route to renewable energy. The City of Sydney is expected to turn its back on an important part of state and federal efforts to tackle climate change by withdrawing from the GreenPower scheme and instead pursuing its own renewable energy projects. [News Source]

Figueres says UN will set ‘pillars’ of climate deal. Christiana Figueres, the Costa Rican revolutionary’s daughter who becomes the top United Nations climate official in July, said envoys will form “pillars” of an agreement to tackle global warming at a summit in December. [News Source]