California forest hailed as model for new management paradigm. A San Francisco-based nonprofit is rewriting the rules of forest economics by proving that some stands can remain ecologically valuable while also generating significant income for their owners – goals that have pitted logging communities against environmentalists in the Pacific Northwest for decades. [News Source]

Energy policy: What the frack? It is time Chris Huhne, the energy secretary, admits it will be costly to curb global warming, says Dieter Helm of Oxford University. Shale gas may generate taxes. But the political price of saving the planet has gone up. [News Source]

New measures to tackle Lincoln’s CO2 levels. The real-life problems of fuel poverty, coastal flooding, and the consumption of scarce resources such as fossil fuels means the biggest challenge the City of Lincoln Council faces is solving the issue of Lincoln's carbon footprint in a way that delivers improved changes for our environment. [News Source]

Metro Vancouver especially vulnerable to climate-change flooding: Report. Metro Vancouver is at greater risk of flood damage to homes due to climate change than any place in Canada, according to a groundbreaking assessment released Thursday by a federal advisory panel. [News Source]

New Zealand looks at banning certain CO2 offsets. New Zealand is looking to exclude the use of UN offsets from industrial gas projects in its emissions trading scheme from as soon as 2012, as these offsets threaten to distort the market and, perversely, lead to the creation of more greenhouse gases, the government said on Friday. [News Source]

Fluctuating climate may impede fleeing animals. Climate change is expected to send many species on one-way migrations in search of new homes as their old ranges become inhospitable. Whether or not they can survive this century depends a great deal on what happens along the route, a new study has shown. [News Source]

Solar fuels take two steps forward. A breakthrough in the effort to tap sunlight to synthesize chemical fuels. [News Source]

David Mitchell: Climate comedy. if you don't trust the scientific consensus on climate change - which is a pretty weird way to behave - even the chance of it is a good enough reason to act. Video. [News Source]

A booming - but minimized - voice of rural Canada. Randy Hillier is a big man who perpetually wears suspenders and a mischievous grin. That grin chased across his face at an all-candidates meeting, when someone asked him if it’s true he doesn’t believe in climate change. [News Source]

Canada faces huge global warming costs. The economic impact of climate change on Canada could climb to billions of dollars per year, according to a study published Thursday by a policy group that advises the Canadian government. [News Source]

Canadian Arctic nearly loses entire ice shelf. Two ice shelves that existed before Canada was settled by Europeans diminished significantly this summer, one nearly disappearing altogether, Canadian scientists say in newly published research. [News Source]