Feeding the World — After Climate Change 

Dec 29, 2011 (The InterDependent) — In the birthplace of the potato, things are heating up. Over the past decade, the Quechua farmers working at the El Parque de la Papa, outside Cusco, Peru, started noticing that the potato varieties they used to grow at lower altitudes can now only be cultivated much higher up the mountainside. “Temperate zones in the mountains are moving upwards—which is to say it’s getting warmer”… 

Climate-related Security Predictions Coming True in Pakistan

WASHINGTON, Aug 26, 2010 (IPS) - Analysts have been warning for several years that the impacts of climate change directly relate to the national security of the U.S. and other countries, but the link has never been so clear as it is today in northwest Pakistan…

Rich-Poor Rift Stalls World Bank’s Anticipated Energy Lending Policy
WASHINGTON, Jul 21, 2011 (InsideClimate) - Ambitious efforts to reform the World Bank’s energy lending policy — expected to be completed in mid-July — have stalled. The main sticking points are centered on loans for coal-fired plants and the reporting of greenhouse gas emissions, observers say…

California, Other States Lead the Charge Toward Copenhagen
OAKLAND, Calif., Dec 4, 2009 (InsideClimate) - After nearly a decade of waiting for two presidents and Congress to embrace the principles of the Kyoto Protocol, California decided to take unilateral action in 2006. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill that would bring his state into near compliance with the international treaty’s climate goals and timetables. California’s capping of greenhouse gas emissions has since been followed by other states…

EPA Okays First Mountaintop Removal Mining Project Under New Guidelines
WASHINGTON, Jul. 7, 2010 (InsideClimate) - The EPA has given tentative – and quiet – approval to a new mountaintop removal mine in West Virginia. It is the agency’s first decision under the new guidelines it issued April 1 which promised to prevent “significant and irreversible damage to Appalachian watersheds at risk from mining activity”…

California Building Power Lines to a Renewable Future
OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 21, 2009 (InsideClimate) - California regulators have approved a plan to carry the resources of a rural, wind-rich region of the state to the homes and businesses of Los Angeles and Southern California, bringing the state a step closer to meeting one of the world’s most ambitious renewable energy goals..