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Climate scientist Michael Mann, best known for creating the controversial “hockey stick” graph to show the effects of anthropogenic global warming over the last 200 years, speaks to CNN about the University of East Anglia “climategate” emails. Source: Washington Times/CNN

It accelerates as fast as a Ferrari, but has zero emissions – that’s what the American makers of the new Tesla Roadster are promising. The 240+ mile range of the electric sports car puts it in a new league for pure electric vehicles and a family sedan is now planned. Source: AFP

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) has decided to delay a decision to increase the ethanol blend in gasoline. The ethanol industry is hoping for a favorable decision that will enable them to re-open idled plants. Source: Clean Skies News

Cairo’s overflowing public garbage has long been a plague on the Egyptian capital, but one association helped by locals is trying to see waste as wealth. Guided by a US engineer, they are working to process the rubbish to create ‘biogas’, that is fuel for cooking and heating homes, as well as using solar energy for hot water. Source: AFP