Climate change challenges

The waves are slowly seeping over the islands of the Pacific nation, which is at the frontline of the climate change-induced rise in sea levels striking low-lying nations all over the world

The changes in the world's vegetation in the last 30 years have been caused more by the climate than by human activities, researchers say.

Since the early 1990s, glaciers draining Antarctica's vast ice sheets have dumped ice into the ocean at an an eye-popping rate.

 

Now, two new studies of ice cores from different parts of the continent are yielding important clues as to why the loss rates have been so high.

 

Mongolia, with 2.87 million people living on 1.5 million hectares, is the world’s most sparsely populated country. With 15 animals for every person, 70 percent of the adult population work in animal husbandry.

by Jacob Patterson-Stein At the end of March, while answering questions in the House of Commons, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper calmly explained why he was stopping payments to an organizat...

Several local colleges, including MIT, UMass Amherst, and Boston College have adopted a new smartphone app that enables students to track the number of calories in the school’s dining hall food.

Researchers believe that the size of birds’ nests created in response to changing weather patterns may be partly to blame for reproductive failures over the last two years.

The world's two biggest polluters have signed what could be a groundbreaking agreement and "call to action" on the fight against escalating climate change.

Snakes and ladders, bingo and top trumps might be old-fashioned games most associated with childhoods past, but if climate-change experts are to be believed, they could just help us to save the planet.

NOAA has issued a report on a small part of the recent brutal droughts that have hit the United States over the past few years.

The effects of global warming will persist for hundreds of years. What are our responsibilities and duties today to help safeguard the distant future? That is the question ethicists are now asking.

Margaret Thatcher, who passed away on April 8, saw global warming as a threat

In a letter, 75 sports champions warn that warmer winters will jeopardize their sports.

As global warming takes its toll on the planet, some wine production will migrate to cooler regions.

Severe land degradation is now affecting 168 countries across the planet, with associated costs of US$490 billion per year

Survey reveals 11 to 16-year-olds are worried about how global waming will affect them, as well as children in poorer nations

NORMAL — Unless substantial steps are taken soon, Illinois will wind up with a climate more like southeast Texas, according to a noted climate scientist who shared the 2007 Nobel

Projections of rainfall changes from global warming have been very uncertain because scientists could not determine how two different mechanisms will impact rainfall.

SYDNEY--Australia's wine and grain production, two of its most important farm industries, will be hit hardest by extreme weather and rising temperatures caused by climate change, the head of the government's forecasting agency said Monday.

Scientists warn that global warming may one day bring an end to faster times at the world’s oldest annual marathon.

The argument for complacency looks very weak.

We’ve all seen them; the movies that predict what it will be like when global warming takes over the planet and wreaks havoc on Earth. In The Day After Tomorrow, a gutsy scientist and his steely-ey...

OSLO (Reuters) - Climate change could get worse quickly if huge amounts of extra heat absorbed by the oceans are released back into the air, scientists said after unveiling new research showing that oceans...

Scientists blame Central Great Plains drought on failure of Gulf jet stream but critics say study was too narrow