Early signs: New Zealand’s climate refugees. Seeing themselves as climate refuges, some Tuvalans are already leaving their Pacific island homes and moving their communities to higher ground in New Zealand. [News Source]

Beetles Aid in Global Warming Research. The beetles ability to clear bones makes them valuable to scientists studying global warming, because they are capable of unveiling the most minute changes in a species. [News Source]

Senate energy panel to hold global warming talks. The Senate Energy Committee meets Tuesday with business leaders and global warming activists to discuss how best to combat global warming. [News Source]

Clinton urges entrepreneurs to fight global warming. Former President Clinton urged a convention crowd of entrepreneurs Friday to help fight America's "stubborn refusal" to face up to the threat of global climate change. [News Source]

Global warming in Alaska. Global warming means trouble for the state of Alaska, rooted in its cold and snow. [News Source]

City Council sets ambitious goals to fight global warming. Minneapolis took a step toward fighting global warming Friday with the adoption of goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. [News Source]

Ottawa stops funding One Tonne Challenge. The new Conservative government in Ottawa has abruptly stopped funding groups across the country that have been promoting the One Tonne Challenge, the quirky program to persuade Canadians to do their bit to help the environment by cutting their greenhouse gas emissions. [News Source]

Unseen danger. Tampering with Earth’s balance could trigger dangers impossible to predict. Instead of playing politics, U.S. leaders must get serious about curbing CO2 pollution. [News Source]

Loss of coastal wetlands exacts hefty price. Hurricane Katrina offered just one taste of what happens when people crowd a vulnerable, overdeveloped coastline, racked by powerful storms, rising seas, eroding beaches and vanishing wetlands. [News Source]

The dilemma of the levees. The sense of just how much the world had changed for the Army Corps of Engineers struck Daniel Hitchings in a tense conference call last month. [News Source]

21 senators press EPA on emissions rules. Twenty-one senators called on the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday to let California implement stricter restrictions on vehicle emissions, which other states could then enact. [News Source]