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EPA to issue more rules in climate fight (Reuters)
Reuters - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will roll out more regulations on greenhouse gases and other pollution to help fight climate change, but they will not be as strong as action by Congress, a senior administration official said.
Nations meet on climate cash, U.N. sees long haul (Reuters)
Reuters - About 45 nations met on Thursday to seek ways to raise billions of dollars in aid to help the poor combat climate change as the United Nations warned them of a long haul to slow global warming.
Disasters show 'screaming' need for action - climate chief (AFP)
AFP - UN climate chief Christiana Figueres on Thursday warned that a string of weather calamities showed the deepening urgency to forge a breakthrough deal on global warming this year.
UN: Climate funds shouldn't divert poverty aid (AP)
AP - The U.N.'s climate chief says poor countries are right to expect that any funding they receive to combat global warming be kept separate from development aid or poverty relief.
Climate change puts China harvests at risk (AFP)
AFP - Climate change could reduce key harvests in China by a fifth if the gloomiest scenarios prove true, according to a study on Wednesday.
India backs embattled IPCC chief Pachauri (AFP)
AFP - India's government said it remained fully supportive of IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri after a damning UN-ordered review called for changes to the Nobel Prize-winning climate change body's leadership.
In Pennsylvania, signs that 'Republican revolution' could repeat itself (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - In another year, Republican state Sen. David Argall would have little chance of toppling nine-term Rep. Tim Holden (D). Mr. Holden is a popular incumbent who typically votes his district, rather than his party, on issues ranging from health care to climate change.
Rajendra Pachauri: IPCC chief in the spotlight (AFP)
AFP - Rajendra Pachauri, under harsh scrutiny as head of the UN's top advisory body on climate change, is a 69-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner with a sideline in writing steamy novels.
EU foreign policy chief in China (AFP)
AFP - European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton was in China Tuesday ahead of talks with top leaders on trade, climate change and security issues such as the Iran and North Korea nuclear standoffs.
Report: Climate science panel needs change at top (AP)
AP - Scientists reviewing the acclaimed but beleaguered international climate change panel called Monday for a major overhaul in the way it's run, but stopped short of calling for the ouster of the current leader.
UN climate panel ordered to make fundamental reforms (AFP)
AFP - An international review panel on Monday called on the UN global climate change body to carry out fundamental reforms after embarrassing errors in a landmark report dented its credibility.
New Type of El Niño Emerges as Climate Changes (LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - A relatively new type of El Niño, featuring warmer waters in a different part of the Pacific Ocean, is becoming more common and stronger, according to a new study that suggests the development may help scientists tease out the relationship between El Niños and climate change.
'Spiderman' arrested after scaling Sydney skyscraper (AFP)
AFP - A French climber known as "Spiderman" was arrested on the roof of a 57-storey Sydney skyscraper on Monday after scaling the building without ropes or a harness to raise climate change awareness.
Mongolian Cabinet holds meeting in Gobi desert (AP)
AP - Top Mongolian officials donned dark green baseball caps reading "Save our planet" and set up chairs and tables in the sands of the Gobi desert for a Cabinet meeting aimed at drawing attention to climate change.
U.N. hopes science review eases climate scepticism (Reuters)
Reuters - A review due on Monday can help restore public faith in the U.N. panel of climate scientists and its finding that global warming is man-made despite errors in a 2007 report, the U.N.'s environment chief said.
Russia grain export ban benefits US farmers, sparks talk on climate change (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - The International Grains Council on Thursday cut its forecast for global wheat output by 1.1 percent, primarily on the news that major grain exporter Russia has seen one-third of its crop wiped out by the worst drought in a century.
Scientists: We've cracked wheat's genetic code (AP)
AP - British scientists have decoded the genetic sequence of wheat — one of the world's oldest and most important crops — a development they hope could help the global staple meet the challenges of climate change, disease and population growth.
Scientists publish key wheat genome (AFP)
AFP - A consortium of scientists on Friday published the first genome for wheat, an achievement that should benefit food security challenged by Earth's surging population, climate change and an emerging plant pest.
Fossilized Creek Beds Offer Up Ancient Climate Change Clues (LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - An ancient, fossilized landscape is slowly rising up from the fields of sugar beets and barley in England's Fens, an agricultural hub near the country's central eastern coast.
German scientist hands Putin frosty climate rebuke (AFP)
AFP - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin queried Monday whether man was to blame for climate change on a visit to the remote Russian Arctic, only to find himself bluntly contradicted by a German scientist.

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