President Obama has used his trip to Alaska to thrust climate change to the forefront by putting the state’s liquefying glaciers and sinking villages on graphic display. [Yahoo News]

The next phase of California’s clean energy leadership will face a set of bills in the State Assembly that would substantially expand the state’s existing clean energy programs. [Vox]

The proposed Shenhua coalmine in New South Wales that is being financed by a Chinese state-owned company faces legal challenge over risk to koala population. [The Guardian]