Receive our daily news briefing or weekly bulletin Reach tens of thousands of people instantly by advertising with Ekklesia. Find out more A unique new coalition launched to fight climate change, and including several Christian agencies, is warning that unless action is taken immediately, human development gains will go ëup in smokeí. [News Source]

Pacific Island states seek help to fight climate change New York, Sep 24 : The leaders of three Pacific Island countries called on the United Nations to take a series of measures to help them and other small island nations combat the effects of climate change. [News Source]

Professors: global warming is real share: digg facebook twitter Gov. Rick Perry wasn't anywhere near Texas on Saturday, but that didn't stop climate scientists and politicians from poking a bit of fun at his position on global warming during an event on the subject at the Pearl Brewery. Perry, who's seeking the GOP's presidential nomination, said on the campaign trail last month that he questions whether humans have caused global ... [News Source]

American divide over global warming getting deeper Supporters of the theory that the earth is undergoing climate change say resistance to the idea is taking on a more partisan, ideological tone. [News Source]

American divide over global warming getting deeper Supporters of the theory that the earth is undergoing climate change say resistance to the idea is taking on a more partisan, ideological tone. [News Source]

Global warming: Day of Action under way Moving the planet … By Summit Voice SUMMIT COUNTY — Despite efforts by fossil fuel industries and their powerful political allies to obfuscate, suppress, hide and otherwise deny the fact that greenhouse gases are heating the planet at an unsustainable pace, global awareness of the issue is growing. And awareness is leading to action, as [...] [News Source]

India opposes counting carbon tax as climate change finance India has told the G20 grouping that carbon tax should not be counted as a new and additional source of funding to fight climate change. [News Source]

House approves bill to delay, scrap EPA rules. The Republican-controlled House on Friday took another swipe at the government's ability to control air pollution, passing a bill that would delay or scrap rules to reduce mercury and other harmful air emissions. [News Source]

Keystone pipeline lobbyist works all the angles with former colleagues. In lobbying for a presidential permit to construct a massive oil pipeline stretching from Canada to the Gulf Coast, TransCanada’s Paul Elliott — who served as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s national deputy campaign manager in 2008 — has tried nearly every angle. [News Source]

Mongolia’s high plains herders warily eye coal truck. A lone cement ribbon bisecting hundreds of miles of shale and scrub on the high plains of Mongolia's Gobi Desert may be a talisman or curse for nomadic herders that trace their lineage to the empire of Ghengis Khan. [News Source]

Sturdy cholera bug thrives as researchers look to stanch outbreak. The cholera bug lives on tiny sea crustaceans in the Bay of Bengal. The sea critters thrive in these tropical conditions, feeding on blooming phytoplankton. So, too, does the cholera bacterium. Now researchers are clarifying how climate change contributes to cholera outbreaks. [News Source]