Global Warming Rally in Austin (KXAN 36 Austin) Climate change concerns led to a rally on the steps of the State Capitol on Saturday. Austin is part of a nationwide rally on global warming called Step It Up 2007. [News Source]

Will Lemmings Fall Off Climate Change Cliff? (Newswise) Contrary to popular belief, lemmings do not commit mass suicide by leaping off cliffs into the sea. A bigger threat to the rodents is climate change, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society, which is launching a study to examine how these tiny but important players in the ecological health of the far North will fare in the age of global warming. [News Source]

Narwhals aid in study of climate change (AP via Yahoo! News) Most climate researchers use weather balloons, satellites, deep-sea submersibles or ice-drilling rigs to mine their data on global warming. A biologist at the University of Washington has turned to a more inventive method: attaching instruments to the backs of narwhals, marine mammals with unicorn-like tusks that live in arctic seas. [News Source]

Narwhals aid in study of climate change (AP via Yahoo! News) Most climate researchers use weather balloons, satellites, deep-sea submersibles or ice-drilling rigs to mine their data on global warming. A biologist at the University of Washington has turned to a more inventive method: attaching instruments to the backs of narwhals, marine mammals with unicorn-like tusks that live in arctic seas. [News Source]

Will Lemmings Fall Off Climate Change Cliff? (Science Daily) Contrary to popular belief, lemmings do not commit mass suicide by leaping off cliffs into the sea. A bigger threat to the the rodents is climate change, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society, which is launching a study to examine how these tiny but important players in the ecological health of the far North will fare in the age of global warming. [News Source]

Australia’s drought linked to global warming (AFP via Yahoo! News) An unprecedented drought that has withered Australia's major food production zone could be a taste of things to come as global warming ramps up, experts said Friday. [News Source]

Australia’s drought linked to global warming (AFP via Yahoo! News) An unprecedented drought that has withered Australia's major food production zone could be a taste of things to come as global warming ramps up, experts said Friday. [News Source]