Revamping the world’s use of water is crucial, expert says. Rethinking the way the world uses, shares and manages water will be crucial to avoiding conflicts, feeding a growing population and limiting vulnerability to the effects of climate change, a leading water scientist says. [News Source]

Making a market for pollution. What does it take to trade in a commodity that cannot be seen or touched - and isn't even a commodity in the United States? [News Source]

Climate shifts ‘not to blame’ for African civil wars. Climate change is not responsible for civil wars in Africa, a study suggests. It challenges previous assumptions that environmental disasters, such as drought and prolonged heat waves, had played a part in triggering unrest. [News Source]

Forest carbon stores may be massively overestimated. Rainforests may store much less carbon than we thought. It could be time to dramatically revise our estimates following the discovery that apparently similar forests hold vastly different amounts of the stuff. [News Source]

Estimated ice cap loss halved. Estimates of the rate of ice loss from Greenland and West Antarctica, one of the most worrying questions in the global warming debate, should be halved, according to Dutch and US scientists. [News Source]

HSBC predicts bigger growth for low-carbon cars than renewables sector. Low-carbon vehicles, such as electric cars, will be a bigger global market by 2020 than renewable energy, such as wind and solar power, according to a report by HSBC bank. [News Source]

Prince Charles under fire for $80,000 train ride. Prince Charles had hoped his five-day train trip through Britain would raise awareness about sustainability and boost his street cred as an environmentalist. Instead, criticism from green groups has him looking like an out-of-touch, playboy prince. [News Source]

Erratic global weather threatens food security. The drought in Russia and floods in Pakistan are part of a global trend of unpredictable weather patterns and rainfall that threaten food security, experts gathered in Stockholm said. [News Source]

Revamping the world’s use of water is crucial, expert says. Rethinking the way the world uses, shares and manages water will be crucial to avoiding conflicts, feeding a growing population and limiting vulnerability to the effects of climate change, a leading water scientist says. [News Source]

Climate change not linked to African wars. A political scientist with the Peace Research Institute Oslo in Norway says his research finds virtually no correlation between climate-change indicators such as temperature and rainfall variability and the frequency of civil wars over the past 50 years in sub-Saharan Africa. [News Source]

Research shows decline of state’s largest glacier. An Oregon State University research program has returned to Collier Glacier for the first time in almost 20 years and found that the glacier has decreased more than 20 percent from its size in the late 1980s. The findings are consistent with glacial retreat all over the world. [News Source]