Nature loss ‘dwarfs bank crisis.’ The global economy is losing more money from the disappearance of forests than through the current banking crisis, according to an EU-commissioned study. [News Source]

US focus on climate could ease financial crisis. If the United States focused on curbing climate change as soon as a new president took office -- or sooner -- it could help pull the world from the financial brink, environmental policy experts told Reuters. [News Source]

Utah justices wade into national coal-plant controversy. The Bush administration has balked at declaring greenhouse gases a pollutant, but several state courts - Kansas, Colorado, Georgia and now Utah -- have tackled the relationship between coal-fired plants and climate change, with mixed results. [News Source]

Melbourne suffers as drought in southern Australia declared worst on record. The drought affecting parts of Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and northern Tasmania "is now very severe and without historical precedent". [News Source]

Global warming triggers an international race for the Arctic. A new epoch is beginning at the top of the Earth, where the historic melting of the vast Arctic ice cap is opening a forbidding, beautiful, and neglected swath of the planet. [News Source]

Impacts seen as the next climate frontier. Scientists hope the next U.S. president will devote more of the billion-dollar climate change research program to impacts. [News Source]

Climate warms, creatures head for the hills. The possibility that climate change is pushing around sensitive species has been worrying biologists. From California to Costa Rica, rising temperatures could be driving species to higher elevations. [News Source]

Speaker Susan Buckingham says gender matters on sustainability. At Lewis & Clark College next week, scholars, students and community members will try to figure out what people mean when they talk about sustainability---and how gender roles fit into a sustainable future. [News Source]

In Yosemite, scientists find species movin’ on up. Scientists have retraced the century-old steps of legendary naturalist Joseph Grinnell through Yosemite National Park. They found that most species have moved to higher, cooler elevations. [News Source]

Climate change ‘threatens biodiversity in tropics’. Climate change may soon make the tropics too hot for many native species, forcing them to head for higher ground to escape the heat. A new study suggests climate change is not only threatening polar bears, but is putting heat-loving species at risk as well. [News Source]

Climate change forcing animals to move up. From the mountains of Yosemite to the tropical lowlands of Costa Rica, global warming is forcing animals and plants to move to higher and higher elevations, searching for climates that have allowed them to evolve and thrive for millions of years. [News Source]