China planning emissions trading in 6 regions: Point Carbon - International Business Times

China will launch pilot emissions trading schemes in six provinces before 2013 and set up a nationwide trading platform by 2015, Thomson Reuters Point Carbon said on Monday, citing a senior government official.

Warming Antarctic 'caused by rising Pacific temperatures' - The Economic Times

LONDON: Researchers have found why continental West Antarctica has steadily warmed for at least 30 years.

New University of Washington research showed that it is the rising sea surface temperatures in the area of the Pacific Ocean along the equator and near the International Date Line drive atmospheric circulation that has caused some of the largest shifts in Antarctic climate in recent decades.