Quoted: Driven by rising demand, record high oil and natural gas prices, concerns over energy security and an aversion to nuclear energy, European countries are expected to put into operation about 50 coal-fired plants over the next five years, plants that will be in use for the next five decades.

Quoted: The West is the fastest-growing part of the country. It’s also the driest. And climate change could be making matters much, much worse.

Quoted: A million years from now, a collection of mysterious artifacts would remain to puzzle whatever alien beings might stumble upon them: bank vaults full of mildewed money; obelisks warning of buried atomic waste in seven long-obsolete human languages, with pictures. The faces on Mount Rushmore might provoke Ozymandian wonder for about 7.2 million more years. ... Weisman stops short of calling for our full green burial, arguing instead for a universal “one child per human mother” policy. It would take until 2100 to dwindle to a global population of 1.6 billion...

Quoted: Brazilian policy makers have begun showing signs of new flexibility in the tangled, politically volatile international negotiations to limit human-caused global warming.

Quoted: Studying Indian glaciers offers a snapshot of the consequences of global warming for India raises vital questions about how the country will respond to them.

This is important for a country of more than a billion people that depends so much on rivers like the Ganga[formed by glacier-melt].