Carbon capturing technology doomed in Europe-study | Reuters

The complex computer modelling exercise, commissioned by European Union Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger, factors in all of the EU's latest climate and energy legislation, most importantly the 2008 renewable energy directive.

EPA clean air regulations might dim green luster of biomass plants in Oregon and nationwide | OregonLive.com

Freres Lumber fired up its biomass plant in 2007 as part of the green power rush, banking on tax breaks to generate steam and electricity at its Lyons mill by burning forest slash and mill waste.

But proposed rules from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- including new regulations on boiler pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the plants -- could force the company to sample emissions more and put "pollution controls on top of pollution controls," Freres executives say.

Arctic Shipping Gets Boring - NYTimes.com

With nearly all forecasts for Arctic sea ice showing a progression in coming decades toward vast stretches of open water and thin ice elsewhere, you can expect ever more such trade.

In many conversations in the last few years, the environmental sociologist Robert Brulle has pointed me to research showing how changes that seem jarring to one generation — signs that the human-heated climate is transforming frozen places — become normal to the next.