Environmental conference will target regional governors from around the world. The eyes of the world may be on President-elect Barack Obama, but when it comes to the issue of climate change, Arnold Schwarzenegger is muscling his way into the international spotlight. [News Source]

Birds warm to up north. The Audubon Society's annual Christmas bird counts have detected a trend: birds moving north because of a warming climate. [News Source]

On war footing. Climate change or global warming has disrupted the ecosystem, destroying crops and fishing grounds; it has caused natural disasters of cataclysmic proportions. [News Source]

Floods under Antarctic ice speed glaciers into sea: study. Scientists unveiled Sunday the first direct evidence that massive floods deep below Antarctica's ice cover are accelerating the flow of glaciers into the sea. [News Source]

Concealed floods drive flow of Antarctic ice. A hidden network of glacial lakes far below the Antarctic surface regulates the motion of the continent's ice rivers, a study has found. [News Source]

Ontarians taking water for granted: environmental commissioner. The wet summer of 2008 may have made Ontarians forget, but dry, drought conditions can be expected more often in the years ahead as global warming worsens, the province's environmental commissioner says. [News Source]

Norway’s lemmings threatened by global warming. In one of the first compelling examples of the impact global warming will have on nature and wildlife, Norway’s lemming population appears to be on the verge of a major population decline. [News Source]

Canada has clean energy aplenty for the Bay State, but can’t we provide our own? From the Maritime provinces to the shores of Lake Ontario, developers are building or planning nearly four dozen wind and hydroelectric projects in the next four years, enough to power more than a million homes. [News Source]

The race is on to halt global warming — and make money. Forget the arguments over whether global warming is real. Many American businesses and researchers are well past all that and are scrambling to find ways to make money in a world that must slash its use of fossil fuels. [News Source]

New legislature raises wheat growers’ fears. Oregon wheat growers fear the Western Climate Initiative and legislation aimed at curbing carbon dioxide emissions has an urban bias, and new proposals coming out of Salem are not calming their fears. [News Source]

Industries warming to ‘carbon bank’ idea. Industry and economic leaders are divided on how an emissions trading scheme should operate but have warmed to the idea of an environmental central bank. [News Source]