Polar Regions

-Arctic arch failure leads to sea-ice exodus
-World's temperature record to be re-analysed
-In India, a Clear Victor on The Climate Action Front
-Is Arctic methane on the move?
-Methane Releases from Arctic Shelf May Be Much Larger and Faster Than Anticipated
-Climate scientists must be ruthlessly honest about data

A new study by a top ecological forecaster says it is harder than experts thought to predict when sudden shifts in Earth's natural systems will occur -- a worrisome finding for scientists trying to identify the tipping points that could push climate change into an irreparable global disaster.

-Uganda oil contracts give little cause for optimism
-Iraq’s production bonanza may fuel a slide in oil
-Shell faces legal fight over Arctic wells
-Venezuela oil 'may double Saudi Arabia'

-The year climate science caught up with what climate scientists have been saying privately for years
-Where on earth is it unusually warm?
-Britain's cold snap does not prove climate science wrong
-Coral Can Recover from Climate Change Damage, New Research Suggests
-The resurgence of El Niño means that 2010 could yet be the hottest year on record
-The sinking Sundarbans
-Major Antarctic glacier is 'past its tipping point'

-Shell's promise of a bright future turns out to be yet another false dawn
-Dramatic American intervention brings climate deal closer
-Greenland Glaciers: Water Flowing Beneath Ice Plays More Complex Role
-Chimerica Against the World
-Clinton Promises Climate Aid; Leaked UN Report Sees 3 C of Warming

We need a stable oil price – but we're at the mercy of Opec
Peak coal, global warming policy and exponential math
Rising oil prices will buy off democracy
How much oil is in the arctic?

Next Climate Summit May Turn on Rich Nations' Approach to Poor Ones
Global Warming, Hitler and World War II Rationing
Arctic melt passes the point of no return

Climate fight hit by global slowdown
Power-sector emissions of China to top U.S.
EU lawmakers urge caution on bloc's carbon curbs
Scientists report further shrinking of Arctic ice
Seeing climate change through the trees

Yet another forecast for Saudi oil production
Does another run higher for crude await?
Rush to Arctic as warming opens oil deposits
Raymond J. Learsy and abiotic oil

The great oil bubble has burst
'The Coming Oil Supply Crunch' - report from Chatham House
Surviving the oil crisis: Simmons and Lerch
'Psychology of shortage' remains in oil markets
Researchers chart fuel-rich areas in Arctic for first time

Huge oil trading loss sinks energy trader SemGroup
Polar power: vast oil find in Arctic
The coming gas supply shock in the Gulf

Albertans can expect forest fires, drought, disease
Geologist sees methane `doomsday'
The Arctic resource rush is on (gas hydrates)
McCain's melanoma cover-up (sunscreen not enough)

No ice at North Pole: Dramatic evidence of climate change
North Pole may Be ice free for first time this summer
Bill McKibben: Climate change activists have chosen a magic number: 350 ppm
350 ppm, the video

Disaster-prone deltas next climate risk
Conflicts fuelled by climate change causing new refugee crisis, warns UN
Climate chaos is inevitable; we can only avert oblivion
Warming could release trillions of pounds of carbon annually from E. Siberia's frozen soils

Indonesia to Pull Out of OPEC
Oil crisis triggers fevered scramble for the world's seabed
Race for the Arctic seabed arrives in Greenland