‘(Reuters) – The Energy Department on Thursday provided a $105 million conditional loan guarantee to help finance the first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in the country.’

via U.S. offers help to finance first advanced ethanol plant | Reuters.

‘An unsettled climate is expected to bring change to the mountains, forests and rivers of the ecosystem. As temperatures warm, fish will move upstream to stay in water that is cold enough for them. The snow line is moving up-slope, and wolverines need to follow, for they need deep snow to raise their young. And important grizzly bear foods such as huckleberries are expected to migrate or disappear, which would mean that bears will need to move as well.’

via Additional Wilderness Urged to Protect Species as Climate Changes – NYTimes.com.

‘An Exxon Mobil pipeline that ruptured late Friday along the Yellowstone River in south-central Montana, spilling crude oil into the river and forcing evacuations, had been shut down for one day in May because of concerns over the rising waters on the Yellowstone, the company said Sunday.’

via Ruptured Montana Pipeline Was Shut Down Before – NYTimes.com.

‘(Reuters) – The Department of Energy awarded First Solar conditional loan guarantees worth $4.5 billion for three of its biggest power plants in California, lifting the company’s shares 7 percent.’

via First Solar plants win DOE loan guarantees | Reuters.

‘(Reuters) – Developers of solar thermal power plants are scrapping plans to use steam technology in favor of ever-cheaper solar panels that are easier to finance and could help assuage concerns about the systems’ environmental impact.’

via Solar developers scrapping thermal for photovoltaic | Reuters.

‘(Reuters) – San Francisco is the greenest city in North America, followed by Vancouver and New York, according to the latest survey of green-city rankings.’

via Survey ranks San Francisco greenest U.S. city | Reuters.

‘Extreme weather events have become both more common and more intense. And increasingly, scientists have been able to pin at least part of the blame on humankind’s alteration of the climate. What’s more, the growing success of this nascent science of climate attribution finding the telltale fingerprints of climate change in extreme events means that researchers have more confidence in their climate models—which predict that the future will be even more extreme.’

via Our Extreme Future: Predicting and Coping with the Effects of a Changing Climate: Scientific American.

‘(Reuters) – Wind turbines that do not interfere with radar systems used by aircraft may soon become a commercially viable option for the wind energy industry, Danish turbine manufacturer Vestas said on Wednesday.’

via Next thing in wind energy: stealth turbines | Reuters.

‘From 2002 to 2006, we began to recognize how much the climate of this region was changing. The whole-country analysis of temperature records indicated that Mongolia has warmed 2.14 degrees Celsius, or 3.85 degrees Fahrenheit, since the 1940s. In contrast, total precipitation has changed very little.’

via Climate Change in Mongolia – NYTimes.com.