Action on climate change (NorthJersey.com) The legislative bargain struck in California this week on global climate change is a landmark in several respects. [News Source]

El Niño might signal end of hurricane season. NOAA's Climate Prediction Center says an El Niño is setting up in the Eastern Pacific that could cut short the Atlantic hurricane season. [News Source]

Canadians urged to safeguard Rockies as key water resource. Canadians need to see their mountain ranges as more than recreational areas and safeguard them as a key water resource, an international water expert said Friday. [News Source]

Young climate change activists mobilize to battle Ottawa. A group of young activists, drinking free -trade coffee and eating organic fruit, is gathering in Toronto this weekend in an effort to inject their voice into what governments should do to address climate change. [News Source]

Truth, faith, and Al Gore. Religious congregations will spread a different kind of gospel next month with 4,000 showings of "An Inconvenient Truth," the documentary released earlier this year on former Vice President Al Gore's effort to spread the word about global warming. [News Source]

Arizona moves to save cash, cut air pollution. Arizona joined the fight to slow global climate change Friday with an ambitious plan could reduce greenhouse pollutants by more than half over the next 35 years and save taxpayers more than $5.5 billion. [News Source]

World must wake up to the dangers of biofuels, head of Kew Gardens warns. Extensive production of biofuel crops could destroy rainforest and bring about a new cycle of intensive agriculture involving vast applications of fertilisers and pesticides, and requiring enormous water resources. [News Source]

Canada plans to boost environment, ignore Kyoto. The Canadian government, under fire for dismissing the Kyoto protocol as unworkable, will next month unveil an environmental package that focuses on improving air quality, but says little about global warming. [News Source]

Study says methane a new climate threat. Global warming gases trapped in the soil are bubbling out of the thawing permafrost in amounts far higher than previously thought and may trigger what researchers warn is a climate time bomb. [News Source]

Global warming can bring back Jurassic era. Global warming over the coming century could mean a return of temperatures last seen in the age of the dinosaur and lead to the extinction of up to half of all species, a scientist said on Thursday. [News Source]

Environmental role urged for Latinos. The man behind California's recently passed landmark bill to curb global warming said Friday that he hopes Latino voters will take an active role in the issue and help put it on the national agenda for the next presidential election. [News Source]