Judge’s ruling throws Southern California power plant plans into disarray. Thirteen proposed electricity-generating plants cannot be built without the necessary environmental and health analyses, the judge ruled. [News Source]

States threaten to sue EPA to get emission rules. Five states will sue the EPA if it does not act soon to reduce pollution from ships, aircraft and off-road vehicles. [News Source]

Five ways to trigger a natural disaster. Few people still doubt that human emissions are causing long-term climate change, which is predicted to increase storm surges, drought and possibly hurricanes. But can we also trigger sudden "natural" catastrophes? [News Source]

Global warming’s fish-sex effect. A new study of fish habitats suggests that increased temperatures from global warming can cause a higher proportion of males in some species. [News Source]

Raising a global stink. Burgeoning efforts to curb global-warming pollution are taking aim at an unlikely new target: the placid, cud-chewing cow. [News Source]

As Arctic sea ice recedes, coastal residents, marine mammals feel the effects. In the Bering and Chukchi seas and along the w. coast of Alaska, walrus, polar bears and seals are losing the ice they live on. Shishmaref, Newtok and Kivalina are washing into the ocean. [News Source]

Ancient ocean cooling sparked a biodiversity boom. More than 400 million years ago, Earth's dramatically warmer sea temperatures plummeted to almost present-day levels, opening the door for a boom in biodiversity, new research shows. [News Source]

Global warming means more raw sewage in local water. Public health and safety threats are escalating in Metro Vancouver because an aging sewage handling and treatment system will fail more often as a result of climate change. [News Source]

March of the tourists. Polar Earth is thawing. Does it matter if the visiting hordes don't understand? [News Source]

Aging infrastructure at risk from changing weather. Climate change is making Canadian roads, water supplies, sewer systems and government buildings more vulnerable to failures that place human health and safety at risk, according to national engineering reports uncovered by The Vancouver Sun. [News Source]

Scientists look to the past to predict the future of climate change. One of the ways scientists make predictions about future changes is by studying what happened in the past when natural cycles caused waters to warm. [News Source]