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MOST Westerners facing criminal charges in Cambodia would be thanking their lucky stars at finding themselves safe in another country. But Alejandro Gonzalez-Davidson, who is half British and half Spanish, is pleading with the Phnom Penh government to allow him back to stand trial along with three Cambodian colleagues.

Global climate: it's complicated. Any long-term solution will require profound changes in how we generate energy. At the same time, there are everyday things that you can do to reduce your personal contribution to a warming planet. Here are seven simple guidelines on how your choices today affect the climate tomorrow.

BEIJING - By many measures, Wang Hailei, 36, belongs to one of the most privileged generations in Chinese history. Raised without siblings under China 's "one child" policy, he was lavished with attention and pampered with gifts like computer games, martial arts novels and music lessons.

FOR California, there hasn't ever been a summer quite like the summer of 2015. The state and its 39 million residents are about to enter the fifth year of a drought. It has been the driest four-year period in California history - and the hottest, too.

Time is running out.

I'm Ben Schlegel, a 15-year old sophomore at Manchester-Essex Regional High School in Massachusetts. I consider myself an environmentalist and am part of the Manchester Essex Green Team, a group of high school students who work to bring sustainable solutions to our community, like school composting and a recent school waste audit.

A new political science study that's gone viral finds that majority-rule democracy exists only in theory in the United States -- not so much in practice. The government caters to the affluent few and organized interest groups, the researchers find, while the average citizen's influence on policy is "near zero."

Posted: Print Article This story originally appeared on Mother Nature Network: It's beyond sobering and bordering on infuriating: Almost every piece of plastic ever made still exists today - and plenty of those bottle caps, lighters, pen casings, and plastic bottles have ended up in the ocean, where their accumulated debris have formed giant bits-of-plastic gyres in every major ocean on Earth.

It is possible to avert disaster.

This is another example of Green Tech advancements. This shows how engineers are adjusting existing technology to create a whole new and useful process.

This is amazing. Talk about green tech advancements. The Tesla car has a lot of promise and if brought down to an affordable price, it would change A LOT. "If somethings important enough, you should try it even if the probable outcome is failure". -Elon Musk

Climate Change impacts already seen.

We can see a silver lining to this event and article. The superstorms, ice cap meltings, and ocean acidification are primary examples of issues that are the forefront of the world's news. When these events happen, they are sad and devastating, but the more they happen people become aware of the problem. And when the UN and political leaders are taking pro-environmentalism stances on the issue of man made global warming, more people will start paying attention and possibly change their anti-environmentalism into pro-environmentalism. This can lead to a desire to make change, and support green technology.

This is a link to a slide show of environmental technology advancements over the past 35 years. Show's us how far we've come, and a good list of technological breakthroughs.

This is a prime example of utilizing our waste to create energy. A good example of a "Green Technology" achievement.

The UK, which has a separate settlement plan from the UN's high Commissioner for Refugees, will act in offering "the most needy people", from Syrian refugee camps a home in Britain.

Good progress on climate.

A strong statement on Climate Change

I think it was great what Obama did but I was looking through the internet and im not sure how the American public will view it. http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/public-to-obama-congress-climate-action-is-no-big-deal-this-year-20140128 This article talks about new polls that have come out saying that the public wanted Obama to talk more about jobs and pushing Congress with new economic agendas. I am curious to find out whether or not he will accomplish anything that he said.

You guys may remember this guy, Enrique Peñalosa. He was the former mayor of Bogata, Colombia and was featured in the documentary we watched, "Urbanized" earlier this year. I thought this was an interesting topic on population and urbanization that also ties in very nicely with our energy unit!

This was great.