india goes to mars

Launched on Nov. 5, 2013, India's MOM (Mars Orbiter Mission) goes into orbit around Mars.

http://www.space.com/27242-india-mars-mission-arrival.html

maven

After ten months in space, NASA's MAVEN Mars orbiter goes into orbit around Mars.

http://www.space.com/23617-nasa-maven-mars-mission.html

ddpp

The Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP) issued its final report in preparation for this week's climate summit at the UN:

http://unsdsn.org/what-we-do/deep-decarbonization-pathways/

Here is the Executive Summary:

http://unsdsn.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/DDPP_2014_report_executive_summary_digit.pdf

carbon tax center

Here's a link to the blog of the Carbon Tax Center, a New York-based group advocating-- you guessed it-- a carbon tax:

www.carbontax.org/blog/

Many of these posts are quite technical, but there are links, in particular, to comparisons of a carbon tax to cap-and-trade schemes.