On Our Radar: Approaching the Doha Climate Talks On the eve of the Doha climate summit, a foreign-policy expert reviews where things stand, while a Pakistani negotiator wonders if the chance to keep the temperature from rising more than two degrees Celsius is fast disappearing. "The window of opportunity is so small now that every misstep or lack of action could put the world in uncharted territory," he writes. [Council on Foreign Relations] [The Express Tribune] In other climate news, scientists report that an area of Arctic sea ice that melted this summer was bigger than the United States. World Meteorological Association Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rain forest declined by 27 percent in the year ending July 31 -- the lowest level in nearly a quarter century. Several Vermont Yankee nuclear plant protesters, ranging in age from 64 to 93, have their day in court after chaining themselves to the plant's gate in August. Berkshire Eagle On a seasonal note, the United States Fish & Wildlife Service had originally proposed to protect more than 300,000 acres of habitat for the remaining woodland caribou in the Selkirk Mountains on the Canadian border in Idaho and Washington, where the reindeer herd numbers less than 30 individuals. The final rule was released Wednesday; it reduces the habitat protects to 30,000 acres of old-growth forests. [Federal Register] [Reuters]