AP – The Republican-led House moved Thursday to take away the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases in a vote largely negated by Senate action a day earlier to reject such a repeal.

AFP – US President Barack Obama called Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard to offer condolences for the deaths and damage caused by flooding in Queensland state and its capital Brisbane, the White House said late Friday.

AFP – The coming year will be an important one for space weather as the Sun pulls out of a trough of low activity and heads into a long-awaited and possibly destructive period of turbulence.

Reuters – Studying the way glass or other brittle objects shatter can help scientists hone their weather forecasts and predictions of future climate, a study released on Tuesday says.

Reuters – Canadian military aircraft helped on Tuesday to rescue hundreds of motorists stranded by an unusually fierce winter storm that closed a key transport link in southwestern Ontario.

AP – Kate Ergang wasn’t worried when two jackknifed semi-tractors trapped her and a friend on an Indiana highway in a blizzard. They had eaten dinner already and had blankets and pillows in the car. They talked, listened to their iPods and dozed off.

AP – A U.N. conference on Saturday adopted a modest climate deal creating a fund to help the developing world go green, though it deferred for another year the tough work of carving out deeper reductions in carbon emissions causing Earth to steadily warm.

AP – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, trying to revive long-stalled climate talks, told world environment ministers on Tuesday he is “deeply concerned” that many years of negotiation have proven largely fruitless.

AP – Unlocking economic prosperity in a low-carbon world was a key theme Monday at a climate-change summit headlined by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is among regional government leaders seeking to join private investors with green technology projects.

AP – The U.S. military on Saturday began flights over Haiti to assess the damage caused by Hurricane Tomas.