Antarctica Speeds Into Trouble
Parts of Antarctica thought to be unaffected by global warming are in fact melting as the temperature of the oceans rises, and in parts of the continent, annual ice loss has jumped 140% in the past...
View ArticleFires Fuel Climate Change, More Fires
Climate change calculations have missed the blazingly obvious, according to a new report from a global group of scientists. They warn that forest fires—generally considered to be a part of natural...
View ArticleIndustry Muffled Own Scientists on Warming
A coalition of industries linked to fossil fuels lobbied for more than a decade to cast doubt on global warming—while the companies' own scientists advised them that climate change was irrefutable, the...
View ArticleClimate Change Already Causing Evolution
Global warming is changing the face of the planet, and a key panel estimates that a quarter of the world's species will die out—but a few organisms are already evolving to survive in a hotter world. In...
View ArticleGoogle Earth, Al Gore Detail Climate Change
Google—with the help of Al Gore—has introduced new “layers” to its Earth application that detail the possible effects of climate change in the next century. The Nobel laureate narrates an intro to a...
View ArticleWest Eases Off Carbon Demands for China, India
Industrialized nations backed away from long-term carbon cut demands on developing nations yesterday, in the hopes of reaching a deal at December's Copenhagen summit. The US and EU have pushed for a...
View ArticleSea Rise Estimates Double
Accelerated melting of Antarctic ice is set to send sea levels rising double previous estimates, researchers warn. The seas will rise by 4.5 feet by the end of this century if temperatures continue...
View ArticleUN Panel to Investigate Climate Emails
The UN’s climate change panel says it will investigate the recently leaked e-mails from British climate scientists that have caused a conservative uproar. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
View ArticleRussian Spies Accused of Leaking Climate Emails
The hackers behind the leaked climate change emails were none other than the Russian secret service, say higher-ups at the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Panel members say the hack was...
View ArticleScientists Now 95% Sure Climate Change Is Our Fault
OK, we did it. A new UN report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has found "it is extremely likely that human influence on climate caused more than half of the observed increase in...
View ArticlePlanet Has Used Up Half Its 'Carbon Budget': UN Panel
The UN's climate change panel for the first time charted the upper limit of acceptable global carbon emissions today—and we're already halfway to it. Based on an internationally agreed upon goal of...
View ArticleUN: No One on Planet Will Avoid Climate Woes
There was no mincing of words in what is the second of three reports on climate change to come from a UN group: Climate change is going to have "severe, pervasive, and irreversible" effects on the...
View ArticleUN Panel: Cost to Fight Climate Change Still 'Modest'
The cost of keeping global warming in check is "relatively modest," but only if the world acts quickly to reverse the buildup of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, the head of the UN's expert panel...
View ArticleChina to Trump: We Didn't Make Up Global Warming
China wants Donald Trump to know that contrary to his notorious 2012 tweet , global warming is not a concept it invented to undermine American manufacturing. At United Nations climate talks in Morocco...
View ArticleUN: 'Life-and-Death' Action Needed on Climate Change
The latest United Nations report on climate change doesn't sugarcoat its findings: Climate change is here, with catastrophic effects, and it is going to get worse. But that doesn't mean it's time to...
View ArticleSea Rise Estimates Double
Accelerated melting of Antarctic ice is set to send sea levels rising double previous estimates, researchers warn. The seas will rise by 4.5 feet by the end of this century if temperatures continue...
View ArticleUN Panel to Investigate Climate Emails
The UN’s climate change panel says it will investigate the recently leaked e-mails from British climate scientists that have caused a conservative uproar. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
View ArticleRussian Spies Accused of Leaking Climate Emails
The hackers behind the leaked climate change emails were none other than the Russian secret service, say higher-ups at the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Panel members say the hack was...
View ArticleScientists Now 95% Sure Climate Change Is Our Fault
OK, we did it. A new UN report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has found "it is extremely likely that human influence on climate caused more than half of the observed increase in...
View ArticlePlanet Has Used Up Half Its 'Carbon Budget': UN Panel
The UN's climate change panel for the first time charted the upper limit of acceptable global carbon emissions today—and we're already halfway to it. Based on an internationally agreed upon goal of...
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