An atlas of pollution: The world in carbon dioxide emissions. The deepest recession since the 1930s has failed to reverse rising global carbon emissions, as plummeting industrial output in the west was offset by the continuing rapid expansion of China and a handful of other emerging economies, new statistics for 2009 show. [News Source]

No reprieve for high-pollution towns. Residents in Otago's high-pollution towns such as Alexandra, Arrowtown and Milton will not get a deferment from tight deadlines to improve their towns' air quality, despite a Government announcement loosening the timeframes. [News Source]

Mr. Obama’s new energy. The president's latest energy plan is probably not ambitious enough to produce the emissions reductions needed to participate credibly in a global effort on climate change. But given political realities, Mr. Obama has laid out two potentially useful paths to progress. [News Source]

Jerry Brown faces tricky environmental and energy issues. As Gov. Jerry Brown lays out his first-term agenda Monday, he confronts a thorny array of environmental and energy issues, many with a potential to drive billions of dollars in state and private spending and have a major effect on public health. [News Source]

Maine governor proposes 63 clean energy and environment reversals. Maine's new Tea Party governor is drawing the ire of environmental groups and health advocates, who charge that his proposed set of 63 regulatory rollbacks would threaten the state's nature-based economy and hamper its bold climate change efforts. [News Source]

Greenpeace protests at Koch brothers’ rally. Prominent figures on both the right and left of the US political spectrum gathered in the luxury enclave of Rancho Mirage in the Californian desert today amid increasingly heated debate about the influence of the secrecy-loving billionaires Charles and David Koch on the political process. [News Source]

An atlas of pollution: The world in carbon dioxide emissions. The deepest recession since the 1930s has failed to reverse rising global carbon emissions, as plummeting industrial output in the west was offset by the continuing rapid expansion of China and a handful of other emerging economies, new statistics for 2009 show. [News Source]

Bankers learn climate science. At the woods' edge, small groups of HSBC technology managers meticulously determine the circumference of specially tagged trees down to a tenth of an inch. Though field science isn't in their job descriptions, their employer, HSBC bank, wants them to understand climate change. [News Source]

Elite scientific advisory panel says new technology is needed to verify emissions cuts. Determining whether individual nations comply with future climate pacts will require a new satellite to keep tabs on countries that resist other forms of monitoring, a government advisory panel says. [News Source]

Climate activists in court over coal protests. Around 80 climate change activists will face court today after two large-scale protests in the Hunter Valley last year. [News Source]

Farmers are key to climate change. Agricultural productivity across Africa has plummeted greatly as a result of climate change, pointing to future food crises on the continent. [News Source]