Peru water wars threaten agricultural export boom. Peru suffers from acute water shortages on its Pacific Ocean coast and they are expected to worsen as its ice fields in the Andes, the world's largest collection of tropical glaciers, melt because of climate change. [News Source]

Six dead in Kazakh forest fires close to Russia: Official. Emergency workers on Thursday battled raging forest fires that have killed six people in northeastern Kazakhstan and destroyed an entire village in a neighbouring Russian region. [News Source]

Pipeline hearing held this week in Prince George. The Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline Project Joint Review Panel held a hearing in Prince George Wednesday on the controversial pipeline. Environmental groups and First Nations raised concerns about the proposed project that would trasnport oil from the Alberta tar sands to the B.C. coast. [News Source]

Louisiana sand berms are not stopping much oil from Gulf of Mexico spill, EPA says. Federal environmental regulators are blasting Gov. Bobby Jindal's $360 million plan to block oil from the BP spill with sand berms, saying barriers built so far are ineffective and threaten wildlife. [News Source]

Saving coal: Smart action required. For some time, Sen. Jay Rockefeller has appeared to be in step with people who deny that climate change is a threat to anyone. But on Wednesday, Rockefeller took the stage alongside U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and warned that West Virginia must take climate change seriously. [News Source]

Climate-change study: Today’s power plants aren’t the problem. When it comes to greenhouse-gas emissions contributing to global warming, the big problem isn't the power plant on the outskirts of town. Rather, the big factor is the plants that will be built a decade or two from now. [News Source]

12 states ask Supreme Court to review greenhouse gas ‘nuisance’ case. Challenging the appropriateness of using the courts to address climate change, Indiana and 11 other states are urging the Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court decision that would allow greenhouse gas emitters to be sued for their contribution to global warming. [News Source]

Peru water wars threaten agricultural export boom. Peru suffers from acute water shortages on its Pacific Ocean coast and they are expected to worsen as its ice fields in the Andes, the world's largest collection of tropical glaciers, melt because of climate change. [News Source]

Steelworkers accuse China of illegal subsidies in clean energy. A broad trade case filed on Thursday by an American labor union, accusing China of unfairly subsidizing its clean energy industry, pressed a hot-button jobs issue in the United States during a Congressional election season. [News Source]

World Bank’s climate change envoy steers around hot-button issues. Ask Andrew Steer, the World Bank's new climate change envoy, what he thinks of his institution's controversial recent decision to help build the world's fourth-dirtiest coal plant in South Africa, and he hedges. [News Source]

U.S. steps up its effort against a European system of fees on airline emissions. The United States has stepped up pressure to prevent Europe from charging foreign airlines for greenhouse gas emissions when they take off and land there. [News Source]