Durban climate conference agrees deal to do a deal – now comes the hard part | Environment | The Guardian

The Durban climate conference may have agreed a deal – or at least a deal to agree a deal – but the scale of the work that still needs to be done became plain today.

Although talks are supposed to start immediately, America's special envoy for climate change, Todd Stern, infuriated the EU by warning that much preparatory work had to be done before the negotiators could sit down to haggle.

Bangkok Post : Two found dead as cold spell moves in

A cold spell is believed to have caused the death of a widow in Chon Buri and a man in Trat yesterday, while Chiang Mai and Mae Hong Son have been declared disaster zones as temperatures plunge in the provinces.

Canada withdrawing from Kyoto, says official | Reuters

(Reuters) - Canada will formally withdraw from the Kyoto protocol on climate change, a government official told Reuters on Monday, making it the first nation to pull out of the global treaty.

Frozen Planet Fakery Row: Polar Bear Filmed In Zoo Using Fake Snow

Frozen Planet’s eight million devoted fans will not take kindly to being left out in the cold. It emerged yesterday a key scene from the hit BBC series showing a polar bear tending her newborn cubs was filmed in a zoo using fake snow.