ARCTIC SEA ICE ALL-TIME LOW

Amazon driest wet season on record.

Australia underwater kelp "forest" killed by heat wave.

Storm last week in China drowned 200, 2M forced to higher ground, $10B econ losses.

Climate change may already be shifting clouds toward poles.

Likelihood Gulfstream slowdown in N Atlantic: research. Would moderate Europe warming.

Great Salt Lake facing ruin.

Great Barrier Reef turtles covered in tumors.

57 sharks washed up on Alabama beaches.

African Development Bank $1.34B loan for S Africa's Eskom.

EBRD $110M loan for clean/renewable power projects in Turkey.

Global green bonds $35B in 1H16: Climate Bonds Initiative.

Karnataka India 1Gw solar PPA with Solar Energy Corp of India.

Canadian Solar (CSIQ) 6.2BYen solar finance in Japan. Also $60M from Prudential for Japan solar.

Solar plane left Spain for Egypt.

El trolley trucking in Sweden. Wake up America!

German govt not fining VW 1 cent for diesel emissions cheat.

NY financing lifelines for nuke power plants.

Most US coal power plants compliant with mercury emissions rule: EIA.

Refiners backing bill to stop social cost of carbon emissions calculation.

N Carolina eased coal ash clean up laws.

US oil rig count up 10 last week, natgas count down 1.

OPEC June oil production up 240Kb/d.

PG&E closed its largest natgas storage field after leaks found.

Oil industry facing huge worker shortage: headlines. (Um, aren't most of the layed-off workers still on unemployment insurance income?)

U of Cincinnati retracted study done last year saying fracking non-polluting.

Shell Nigeria resumed oil shipments last week.

Resources for Future leader killed in Baltimore.