If you read only three stories this morning...
1) Arctic sea ice reaches sixth lowest level recorded
Sea Ice didn't retreat as far as last years record, but still points to a ice free summer Arctic. "It certainly is continuing the long-term decline," said Julienne Stroeve, a scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre. "We are looking at long-term changes and there are going to be bumps and wiggles along the long-term declining trend, but all the climate models are showing that we are eventually going to lose all of that summer sea ice."
It comes as the Reuters Institutes examines how the media communicates climate uncertainty and as Shots were fired at Greenpeace Arctic protest. Greenpeace says two activists were arrested. Here is a photo.
2) China unveils new electric car subsidies and cuts coal use
The government will provide up to 60,000 yuan (£6,160; $9,800) to buyers of all-electric, "near all-electric" and hydrogen vehicles until 2015 - more than most EU subsidies for electric cars. It comes as the Chinese environment ministry announces it is to coal consumption and shut capacity of polluting industries in key northern cities and provinces by 2017 as part of ongoing efforts to cap coal use.
3) US study downplays fracking methane risks
A study by the University of Texas suggest the risk of methane leakage from shale gas extraction is lower than previously thought. Industry critic and Cornell professor Anthony Ingraffea, who's own study found far higher emissions, suggested the study showed methane leakage could be reduced, if the right procedures were followed. However he noted the Texas study only examined leakage around well sites identified by industry.
UK
US researchers call for fracking ban to protect livestock
The US researchers behind a study into the impact of shale gas drilling on livestock have suggested there should be a moratorium on the practice in the UK. The Independent reports that among the incidents investigated by Cornell's Professor Oswald and a colleague was a leak in Louisiana of waste water which allegedly left 17 cows dead from respiratory failure. In Pennsylvania, a herd suffered a 50 per cent stillbirth rate after cows grazed in a field contaminated with chemicals spilling from a waste pit.
International
German Greens face poll losses
Calls in the 1980's for the decriminalisation of peadophilia by the current party leader have done nothing for poll ratings. The Greens, who once commanded 25% of the vote in the wake of the Fukushima disaster are now down to 9%.
More radioactive waste dumped
A Typhoon hit the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant forcing authorities to dump a further 1,000 tons of polluted water into the sea.
What is the future of desert solar?
Business Green thinks there is a future beyond the somewhat bedeviled desertec project. Think tank E3G are looking at the potential of Norsetec, or the North Sea Offshore Grid.
