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Scientists have revealed an important discovery that raises doubts concerning the viability of plans to fertilize the ocean to solve global warming, a...
"Threatened coral reefs could be given a helping hand by establishing marine reserves, according to a research team led by the University of Exeter."
"The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Pane...
"It seems inconceivable. But top scientists warn that such a catastrophe may in fact play out in coming generations unless action is taken to stop oce...
"Deep under the sea, a fossil the size of a sand grain is nestled among a billion of its closest dead relatives. Known as foraminifera, these complex ...
"Worldwide emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning are dramatically altering ocean chemistry and threatening marine organisms, including ...
"Data collected from ocean sampling in the Pacific Ocean from the southern to northern hemispheres confirms that the oceans are becoming more acidic."
Once roofed by ice for millennia, a 10,000 square km portion of the Antarctic seabed represents a true frontier. Now it has yielded secrets to some 52...
"In searching for ways to counteract the greenhouse effect, some scientists have proposed capturing the culprit—carbon dioxide—as it is emitted from p...
"Many people are wary of ocean sequestration, including some authors of this chapter, because it is known that small changes in biogeochemical cycles ...
"Ancient plant life recovered in recent Arctic Ocean sampling cores shows that at the time of the last major global warming, humidity, precipitation l...
"Further evidence for the decline of the oceans’ historical role as an important sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide is supplied by new research by en...
As the world warms, the interaction between the Atlantic Ocean and atmosphere may be the recipe for stronger, more frequent hurricanes.
"A global change in climate could explain the explosion in marine biodiversity that took place 460 million years ago."
"Purdue University researchers have found evidence that tropical cyclones and hurricanes play an important role in the ocean circulation patterns that...
The potential revision to the government's approach for rejuvenating a huge 'Dead Zone' in the Gulf of Mexico is potentially dangerous and should be r...
"Diatoms -- some of which are so tiny that 30 can fit across the width of a human hair -- are so numerous that they are among the key organisms taking...
More than 40 percent of the world's oceans are heavily impacted by human activities, including overfishing and pollution, according to a new study tha...
"Researchers have discovered the mathematical relation between the number of hurricanes produced in certain parts of Earth and the energy they release...
"Changes in growth rates in some coastal and long-lived deep-ocean fish species in the south west Pacific are consistent with shifts in wind systems a...
"As scientists, we understand the dangers of nuclear weapons and their devastating effects, and we are learning how human activities and technologies ...
"Amazing animals will capture visitors' hearts and minds when the Monterrey Bay Aquarium's newest special exhibition, 'Hot Pink Flamingos: Stories of ...
"Ice loss from glaciers and ice caps is expected to cause more global sea rise during this century than the massive Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets...
"Gas escaping from the ocean floor may provide some answers to understanding historical global warming cycles and provide information on current clima...
"Finally, some good news about the prospects of coral reefs in the age of climate change."
"A new investigation, just published in the scientific journal Science, reveals that a warming induced deficiency in oxygen uptake and supply to tissu...
"The University of Miami and the University of Iowa are pleased to announce that the Hurricane Futures Market is now open again for the 2007 hurricane...
"University of Utah mathematicians have arrived at a new understanding of how salt-saturated ocean water flows through sea ice."
"New research reveals the major influence of fish on maintaining the delicate pH balance of our oceans, vital for the health of coral reefs and other ...
"About twice as many Atlantic hurricanes form each year on average than a century ago, according to a new statistical analysis of hurricanes and tropi...
"Using echo-sounding equipment to create images and maps of areas below the ocean floor, researchers have begun to unravel a new story about the Antar...
"A new analysis of 50 years of changes in freshwater inputs to the Arctic Ocean and North Atlantic may help shed light on what's behind the recently o...
"Up to now, the oceans have buffered climate change considerably by absorbing almost one third of the worldwide emitted carbon dioxide."
"A new study has found that large segments of the Pacific Ocean lack sufficient iron to trigger healthy phytoplankton growth and the absence of the mi...
"The struggle of penguins to survive is a clear sign that the world's marine systems are in trouble."
Pollution from marine shipping causes approximately 60,000 premature cardiopulmonary and lung cancer deaths around the world each year
"Several times over the past century, scientists and environmental engineers have proposed spreading slurries of dissolved iron into the oceans."
"In a global culture dominated by speed, from overnight package delivery to bullet trains to fast-cash withdrawals, the company has seized on a sales ...
"A new climate model predicts that as the winds shift south, they can do a better job of transferring heat and carbon dioxide from the surface waters ...
"Hurricanes may be known for causing all sorts of destruction, but a new study out this week from scientists at the University of Miami Rosenstiel Sch...
"The National Center for Atmospheric Research has taken delivery of a new supercomputer to advance research into severe weather and the future of Eart...
"Ecosystems along the continental shelf waters of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean--from the Labrador Sea south of Greenland all the way to North Carolina...
"Carbon emissions from human activities are not just heating up the globe, they are changing the ocean’s chemistry."
"El Niño, the periodic eastern Pacific phenomenon credited with shielding the United States and Caribbean from severe hurricane seasons, may be oversh...
"The ocean, they say, is Earth’s “biggest heat bucket.” And like a bucket placed under an overflowing sink, the ocean is filling up with the heat that...
"Arctic sea ice during the 2007 melt season plummeted to the lowest levels since satellite measurements began in 1979, according to researchers at the...
"Australian researchers have studied and documented the effect of the 'sundried tide,' a force of nature that can silently wipe out coral reefs."
"Large areas of the Arctic sea-ice are only one metre thick this year, equating to an approximate 50 percent thinning as compared to the year 2001."
"The International Ice Charting Working Group predicts more marine transportation in the Arctic as sea ice continues to diminish and warns of 'signifi...
"Waters from warmer latitudes -- or subtropical waters -- are reaching Greenland's glaciers, driving melting and likely triggering an acceleration of ...
"A Duke University-led analysis of available records shows that while the North Atlantic Ocean's surface waters warmed in the 50 years between 1950 an...
"Researchers from the University College London (UCL) have found that local sea surface warming was responsible for around 40 percent of the rise in n...
"Climate model simulations for the 21st Century indicate a robust increase in wind shear in the tropical Atlantic due to global warming, which may inh...
"The last fish you ate probably came from the Bering Sea."
"Sea surface temperatures are one of the key ingredients for tropical cyclone formation and they were warming up in the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean and ...
"Whales, dolphins and porpoises are facing increasing threats from climate change."
"Scientists have observed the first evidence that the Southern Ocean’s ability to absorb the major greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, has weakened by abo...
"Two studies have come to this conclusion based on an analysis of the role the process of melting played during the last glaciation."
"Coral disease outbreaks hit hardest in the healthiest sections of the Great Barrier Reef, where close living quarters among coral may make it easy fo...
"We need to continue discovering how the Earth system works in order to evaluate the numerous ways that humans can adapt to climate change."
Dr. Peter Edmunds, a scientist at the Moorea Coral Reef Long Term Ecological Research site discusses efforts to understand how climate change impacts ...
Following husband and wife cinematography team Howard and Michele Hall on a 10-month quest across the Pacific Ocean – the film captures unprecedented,...
A short PSA about the ocean and getting involved in ocean activities to protect it for future generations. Produced by ThankYouOcean.Org
This brilliant 15-minute film was developed by the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO) to communicate scientific infor...
A short film designed to raise awareness about the critical status of our global water resources. An eye opener!
For the past several years, the Southern California coastline has had dozens of sea lions and other marine animals washing up on its beaches, afflicte...
Understanding the significance of coral reefs is the first step we need to take before we can move towards saving them. This short film from Ion Digit...
Randy Olson and Jeremy Jackson created this short film which presents a medical analogy to illustrate the importance of historical perspective.
A powerful movie on the efforts by many citizens, researchers, environmentalists and ocean lovers to protect and safeguard a gorgeous stretch of the B...
"They're majestic, mesmerizing, even a little otherworldly. They take on a variety of forms, from bells to toadstools to cauliflower. They're multiply...
"A conference on climate change wants $300 billion in annual compensation from wealthy countries and global companies to deal with global warming effe...
"For the past few years, vanishing northern sea ice has been a theme of many talks and posters here at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Un...
"2008 will be slightly cooler than recent years globally but will still be among the top 10 warmest years on record since 1850 and should not be seen ...
"The Arctic ice cap has shrunk by an area twice the size of France's land mass over the past two years, the Paris-based National Centre for Scientific...
"Climate change advocates will be buoyed by data which has emerged from the US on Tuesday."
"The world faces well-known milestones for reducing carbon dioxide emissions in the coming decades to reduce the dangers of climate change."
"A recent climate change seminar in Sydney heard that scientists are beginning to recognize the 52 island nations of the South Pacific as the mine can...
"The Arctic climate has been warmer over the past decade than during any 10-year period in 2,000 years, according to a study by an international resea...
"Carbon-dioxide emissions are turning the waters of the Arctic Ocean into acid at an unprecedented rate, scientists have discovered."
"The gradual acidification of the oceans, a result of rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, is thought to be bad for coral reefs."
"In less than 50 years, oceans may be too acidic for coral reefs to grow because of carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels by humans, accor...
"A team of North American scientists said corrosive, acidified water has been discovered within 20 miles of the shoreline of the U.S. West Coast."
"Rising acidification of the ocean could reduce fertilization of marine invertebrates and might eventually wipe out colonies of sea urchins, lobsters,...
"Environmental activists, indigenous leaders and Hollywood celebrities are gathering in Bolivia ahead of a self-styled global people's conference on c...
"Carbon dioxide emissions must fall sharply to avoid inflicting acid damage to the world’s marine ecosystems."
"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin acknowledged Tuesday that global warming was harming her state but said stepped-up natural-gas production could mitigate its ...
"Two hundred years of glacial shrinkage in Alaska, and then came the winter and summer of 2007-08."
"As the world mulls the question of how to satisfy a seemingly endless appetite for energy and still slash greenhouse gas emissions, researchers have ...
"A controversial study of ancient corals published this week suggests that sea levels can rise rapidly under global warming-type scenarios."
"The creatures that roamed the balmy swamps and forests of the prehistoric Canadian high Arctic survived the long dark season by switching diets drama...
"Last time Earth suffered a carbon-induced fever, it was the oceans that helped saved the day, say marine scientists in California."
"A Canberra scientist has released new research on ancient deep ocean temperatures which could be used to predict climate change."
"Ancient volcanoes may have caused a dramatic warming of the Earth's atmosphere that raised sea temperatures and killed off many marine species, resul...
"The study, carried out by the Universities of Edinburgh, Stirling and Lille, has found that the very coldest periods of the last ice age correspond w...
"Antarctic glaciers are melting faster across a much wider area than previously thought, scientists said Wednesday - a development that could lead to ...
"An ice bridge linking a shelf of ice the size of Jamaica to two islands in Antarctica has snapped."
"The amount of sea ice around Antarctica has grown in recent Septembers in what could be an unusual side effect of global warming, scientists said yes...
"The long-term stability of the massive ice sheets of Antarctica, which have the potential to raise sea levels by hundreds of metres, has been called ...
"The U.S. Geological Survey recently reported that ice shelves are retreating in the southern section of the Antarctic Peninsula, and the researchers ...
"A space-based study reveals that ice sheets in Antarctica, the world’s largest reservoir of fresh water, are shrinking faster than new snow can fall....
"Antarctica's 'weight gain' is due to extra snowfall, caused by rising temperatures..."
"Antarctic krill appear to feed at the surface of the ocean and 'parachute' down to deep waters more often than previously thought, a new study reveal...
"Melting Antarctic ice could help sea levels rise up to 1.4m (4.5ft) by the end of the century, scientists have warned."
"Scientists set off on a voyage to Antarctica on Saturday to see if the icesheets at the edge of the vast continent are melting faster and whether the...
"The Antarctic ozone hole will probably take longer to heal than was previously thought, scientists say. At the current rate of recovery, the hole won...
"The most extensive survey ever taken of the Antarctic sea floor shows how the ice retreated during a warming in temperatures 10,000 years ago."
"It's the southern ozone hole whatdunit. That's why Antarctic sea ice is growing while at the other pole, Arctic ice is shrinking at record rates. It ...
"Climatic changes appear to be destabilizing vast ice sheets of western Antarctica that had previously seemed relatively protected from global warming...
"Global warming could bring sharks to Antarctic waters, threatening a unique marine life shielded from predators by frigid conditions for millions of ...
"Even as changing climate brings more moisture, and ice, to Antarctica's center, on its edges the frozen continent is becoming less so. Melting skyscr...
"Serious disagreement has broken out among scientists over a United Nations climate report's contention that the world's greatest wilderness - Antarct...
"Millions of people living near the Aral Sea face a bleak future, with health experts saying diseases like tuberculosis (TB) and cancer are having a t...
"The continuing loss of sea ice has pushed the air temperature in the Arctic to a record high above normal, scientists have revealed."
"Freed by warming, waters once locked beneath ice are gnawing at coastal settlements around the Arctic Circle."
"Summers in the Arctic may be ice-free in as few as 30 years, not at the end of the century as previously expected, a new study suggests."
"The ice that has covered the Arctic basin for a million years will be gone in about six years due to global warming, says a University of Manitoba ge...
"In what looks to be another sign the Arctic is heating up quickly, British explorers in Canada's Far North reported on Tuesday that they had been hit...
"Fossils of a hippopotamus-like creature on an Arctic island show the climate was once like that of Florida, giving clues to risks from modern global ...
"Reports indicate that the biggest glacier in the Arctic is on the verge of losing a chunk of ice the size of Manhattan."
"The polar cap in the Arctic may well disappear this summer due to the global warming, Dr. Olav Orheim, head of the Norwegian International Polar Year...
"Ice on the Arctic Ocean has started to expand after a summer thaw to the third smallest area on record allowed ships to test a new sea route past nor...
"The amount of long-lasting sea ice in the Arctic -- thick enough to survive for up to a decade -- declined sharply in the past year, even though the ...
"Arctic ice melting could cost global agriculture, real estate and insurance anywhere from $US2.4 trillion to $US24 trillion by 2050 in damage from ri...
"Arctic Ocean sea ice melted faster last month than it has in any previous June since satellite measurements began 30 years ago, continuing a pattern ...
"Scientists have found the first unequivocal evidence that the Arctic region is warming faster than the rest of the world at least a decade before it ...
"Arctic ice may be melting faster than most climate change science has concluded, the conservation group WWF said in a report published on Thursday."
"Though scientists tend to agree that summer ice at the North Pole will eventually disappear, they haven't settled on a date. And one group now claims...
"If you thought it was cold in Britain for the time of year, you should see what is happening around the North Pole. Scientists have discovered that t...
"For the second year in a row, the cloak of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean failed to grow to its normal winter expanse..."
"The Arctic icecap is melting much faster than expected and is about 30 years ahead of predictions made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chan...
"A remote chain of Arctic islands is advertising itself as a showcase of bad things to come from global warming."
"Ice is melting so fast in the Arctic that the North Pole will be in the open sea in 30 years, according to a team of leading climatologists."
"Atmospheric concentrations of methane, 'a greenhouse gas more than 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide,' have risen for the first time in eight ...
"The Arctic Ocean ice cover, which appeared earlier this summer to be headed for a moderate recovery after last year's record-setting retreat, has beg...
"Arctic emissions of a powerful greenhouse gas jumped 30% in recent years in a worrying hint that global warming might unlock vast stores frozen in pe...
"The Arctic Ocean could be entirely ice-free during the summer months as soon as 2013, said two scientists at the Naval Postgraduate School in Montere...
"Arctic sea level has been falling by a little over 2mm a year - a movement that sets the region against the global trend of rising waters."
"Record amounts of the Arctic ocean failed to freeze during the recent winter, new figures show, spelling disaster for wildlife and strengthening conc...
"Rapidly thinning Arctic sea ice may have reached a tipping point that threatens to disrupt global weather patterns, bringing intense winter storms an...
"Miles beneath the 3-foot ice packs of the Arctic Ocean, biologist Tim Shank got his first-ever glimpse of the sea floor."
"The Arctic Ocean will be an 'open sea' almost entirely free from ice within a decade, the latest data released today indicates."
"A Nasa satellite has documented startling changes in Arctic sea ice cover between 2004 and 2005."
"Arctic permafrost, the frozen soil beneath polar snow and ice, contains twice as much carbon as previously estimated and may spark a further increase...
"Arctic sea ice underwent an unusual late-season growth spurt in March, according to National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) data."
"The sea ice of the Arctic will melt further and faster than at any time since records began nearly 30 years ago, according to the latest data collect...
"Arctic sea ice has melted to a record low this month, prompting fears that the entire polar ice cap may disappear within decades."
"Winter Arctic sea ice this year was the second smallest area on record in a sign of greenhouse warming, United States climate scientists said on Wedn...
"New satellite measurements show that crucial sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has plummeted to its second lowest level on record."
"The melting of Arctic sea ice has reached a critical stage, with satellite images showing the disappearance of ice this year peaking at a level close...
"Arctic sea ice is melting at an alarming rate, and some scientists have little hope the downward trend can be reversed before the ice disappears alto...
"Sea ice cover at the North Pole continues its inexorable melt-down, shrinking to a near record extent, according to new satellite data."
"Arctic sea ice is on track to recede to a record low this year, suggesting that northern waters free of summer ice are coming faster than anyone thou...
"Sea ice in the North Pole is even thinner than was feared, according to the first expedition on foot to find out the effects of climate change on the...
"Arctic sea ice, sometimes billed as Earth's air conditioner for its moderating effects on world climate, will probably shrink to a record low level t...
"Thriving only in near-freezing waters, creatures such as Antarctic sea spiders, limpets or sea urchins may be among the most vulnerable on the planet...
"The rate of climate warming over northern Alaska, Canada, and Russia could more than triple during periods of rapid sea ice loss."
"The potent greenhouse gas methane, is bubbling out of the frozen Arctic much faster than expected and could stoke global warming."
"Hunters and animal rights activists face off on the ice this week as Canada's annual seal hunt begins, but a succession of unusually warm winters in ...
"A group of British explorers just back from a 60-day trip to the North Pole said on Monday they had encountered unusual conditions, including ice she...
"A Dutch artist arranged two large sculptures on an iceberg in Greenland on Friday to raise awareness about climate change, and people will be able to...
"Smog and air pollution from Asian cities have intensified storms over the Pacific Ocean, which will result in increased warming of the Arctic, scient...
"A new study further bolsters concerns that pollution blowing across the Pacific Ocean from China and other rapidly developing Asian nations may swamp...
"While the nation debates the cost of climate change the problem already has a price tag on the Chesapeake Bay."
"The number of tropical storms developing annually in the Atlantic Ocean more than doubled over the past century, with the increase taking place in tw...
"The Pacific island state of Tuvalu set a goal on Sunday of a 100 percent shift to renewable energy by 2020, hoping to set an example to industrialize...
"About 190 nations begin talks on the Indonesian island of Bali tomorrow to build on a "fragile understanding" that the fight against global warming n...
"Northern Europeans are poised to celebrate the passage to the New Year in a way that is out of the ordinary for them: with an ice-free Baltic Sea."
"Bangkok and its surrounding provinces will be underwater within the next 15 to 20 years unless barriers are constructed along the capital’s Chao Phry...
"They envisioned more than 8,000 barges moving into the northern ocean in the fall, speeding the initial formation of sea ice by pumping a spray of wa...
"The Great Barrier Reef will become functionally extinct in less than 20 years if global warming continues at its current pace, a draft international ...
"At the Golden Gate Bridge, the Pacific Ocean crept seven inches higher during the past century, as global warming melted glaciers and expanded ocean ...
"Rising temperatures in the Bering Sea are causing long-term changes in the ecology of the local wildlife, scientists have found."
"Six of the world's biggest polluters, led by the United States, will create a multi-million dollar fund to encourage mining and power industries to d...
"New scientific analysis forecasts world sea levels to rise by up to 5 feet by the end of this century."
"New Zealand scientists have been getting up close to the world's biggest ocean current in a bid to shed light on some unanswered questions about clim...
"European leaders have pledged to provide 7.2 billion euros ($11.5 billion) over the next three years to help developing nations adapt to climate chan...
"Hundreds of tundra swans fly at dawn, clucking, whooping, bugling, a flock at a time flapping their long white wings and scampering with their webbed...
"Increasing numbers of pregnant polar bears are coming to land to give birth instead of staying on the thinning Arctic sea ice, a trend that signals a...
"Giant blue-fin tuna and other semitropical fish are increasingly being caught in South Korean waters, a phenomenon linked to global warming."
"US activists launched a campaign for a consumer boycott of ExxonMobil, accusing the world's biggest oil company of jeopardizing the environment with ...
"There is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today than at any point during the last 650,000 years, according to a major new study that let scienti...
"Destruction of Burma's mangrove forests may have contributed to the devastating impact of the recent cyclone that left thousands of citizens homeless...
"Black Saturday's smoke is still smearing the sky as far as Antarctica, where it is expected to contribute to ozone depletion."
"California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday ordered preparations for rising sea levels from global warming."
'Hysteria surrounding the impact of climate change on the Great Barrier Reef could lead to less being done to protect it from immediate threats such a...
"The Canadian government has taken delivery of two remote-controlled submarines which will be used to document its territorial claims in the Arctic."
"With Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Arctic research station still years away from reality, an international panel says it is time to 'start now' to ...
"Polar bears in the Hudson Bay area of Canada are likely to die out in the next three decades, possibly sooner, as global warming melts more Arctic ic...
"A worldwide program to capture greenhouse gases from power stations and factories could be humanity's best chance of saving itself from climate chang...
"Caribbean sea temperatures have reached their annual high two months ahead of schedule - a sign that coral reefs may suffer the same widespread damag...
"For more than 30 years the 980 people living on the six minute horseshoe-shaped Carteret atolls have battled the Pacific to stop salt water destroyin...
"Antarctica is melting, adding to the inexorable rise in global sea levels, endangering millions of lives and whole economies
"Scientists say coral fish could suffer from climate change just as much as the reefs they live in."
"Walruses are the latest wildlife victims of a changing climate, according to conservationists who warn the loss of the animal's sea ice habitat is fo...
"China will overtake the United States as the world's biggest emitter of heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) either this year or next, the Internationa...
"Chinese scientists are planning to drill deep into a glacier on the Antarctic's highest icecap next year to study climate and environment changes."
"The exact number of cities involved won't be known until after the event: many sign up in the final hours before the big switch-over. What is certain...
"Fewer clouds dot the Pacific skies than a half-century ago, allowing the sun beat to down on the sea and raise temperatures."
"A big white missing piece has been fitted into the global climate change jigsaw, with the first clear evidence that Antarctica is warming, like the r...
"Earth's air is cleaner, but this may worsen the greenhouse effect."
"Some of the world's top scientists are in talks about a climate change early warning system based on the Southern Ocean."
"Acting to address the contentious subject of global climate change, the Senate passed an amendment to pending energy legislation on Tuesday calling f...
"Climate change and warmer coastal waters are thought to have caused a massive increase in the number of basking sharks feeding in Scottish waters."
"Three papers published in Science today say that temperature trends in the lower atmosphere are consistent with a warming world, countering earlier c...
"French researchers analysed records stretching back to the 1950s and think the breeding delays are linked to changes in East Antarctic sea ice."
"The schooner Tara is to set sail on a three-year scientific voyage on the trail of naturalist Charles Darwin to map the effects of climate change on ...
"Salinity and rising sea levels caused by climate change are expected to make Tuvalu uninhabitable within 50 years, leaving the 9000-strong population...
"Climate change will pose profound strategic challenges to the United States in coming decades, raising the prospect of military intervention to deal ...
"The US and Australia are developing a new pact on climate change with a group of Asian countries, believed to include China, India and South Korea."
"Fish stocks Cod numbers in the North Sea will fall by 20 per cent in the next 40 years as its waters warm, according to the first atlas showing how c...
"They believe millions of tons of carbon dioxide could be dumped under the bed of the North Sea to reduce atmospheric warming."
"A cyclone wrecks coastal Myanmar, spawning outbreaks of malaria, cholera and dengue fever. Flooding inundates Iowa, raising an array of public health...
"When lobsters swarm up the beach and octopuses try to clamber up fishing lines to get out of the water, you know that something has gone badly wrong ...
"Climate change will aggravate natural disasters and people in developing nations such as Dominica, Vanuatu, Myanmar and Guatemala are most at risk, a...
"Climate change may be the root of the trouble. New environmental conditions lead fish to migrate, leaving the birds that feed on them malnourished. T...
"Across the Amazon basin, river dwellers are adding new floors to their stilt houses, trying to stay above rising floodwaters that have killed 44 peop...
"When nearly 900 endangered leatherback sea turtles emerged from the sand on this remote Pacific beach this spring, scientists rejoiced."
"When a cyclone destroyed her home two years ago, Shahana Begum joined the swelling ranks of Bangladeshi 'climate refugees' who, experts say, could on...
"Hundreds of scientists are scrambling to finish a landmark report set to declare that climate change is already discernible and could wreak devastati...
"The United States released a new draft report on climate change on Monday, one week before the expected unveiling of a compromise U.S. Senate bill th...
"Pielke, who is also the state climatologist, said the Climate Change Science Program had minimized evidence that factors other than greenhouse gases ...
"UN and EU officials have welcomed the US declaration that greenhouse gases are threatening to human health."
"Usually derided as teetering 'on the tip of irrelevance,' this year's Asia-Pacific leaders' summit in Sydney hopes to rise above its reputation for g...
"The Canadian Arctic will be 'Mars on Earth' for a team of planetary and climate researchers determined to be the first to traverse the ice-choked Nor...
"Climate change is likely to hit supplies of many of Australia's favourite eating fish, including barramundi, salmon, rock lobster and prawns, the mos...
"The scientists whose leaked emails sparked a heated debate and speculation over the quality of research into climate change have been cleared by an i...
"A rocket carrying a NASA global warming satellite splashed into the ocean near Antarctica early Tuesday after a failed launch."
"A team of scientists studying rock samples in Africa has shown a strong link between falling carbon dioxide levels and the formation of Antarctic ice...
"Environment groups are calling for the Queensland government to ban developments on thousands of kilometers of the state's coast, following a report ...
"Hull could be transformed into a Venice-like waterworld and Portsmouth into a south coast version of Amalfi, engineers and architects have claimed in...
"The sea level along low-lying coastal villages in the Rewa Delta is now above ground level, recent surveys have found."
"The company is planning to develop a £2bn transport and storage network so it can collect carbon and store it overseas"
"Scotland as it looked during the last ice age has been revealed by a stunning new set of computer-generated images."
"Sea levels could rise by up to seven meters if greenhouse gas emissions were not scaled back, a panel of leading geoscientists has told the US Congre...
"Indian and German scientists began strewing iron powder on hundreds of square kilometers of the Antarctic ocean in a momentous experiment that may yi...
"Australian-based scientists have carried out investigations that the frequency of coral reef deaths in the continent is at present the highest in the...
"The world's largest scientific meeting on coral reefs, the International Coral Reef Symposium, is under way in the United States."
"A United Kingdom court has ruled that a man can take his employer to court on the grounds that he was discriminated against because of his views on c...
"It is only water, but New Zealand climate scientists expect to learn a lot about past weather patterns from ice samples they will study at a new stat...
"Tropical cyclones may be a tiny help in slowing global warming by washing large amounts of vegetation and soil containing greenhouse gases into the s...
"Climate change will inflict more than $37 billion worth of damage to the Great Barrier Reef over the next century, a report has found."
"A deadly species of jellyfish is spreading along Australia's coastline as a result of global warming, scientists warned yesterday."
"By precisely measuring the heat in the ocean U.S. scientists have confirmed the Earth is warming in a historically significant and important way."
"Scientists will send an unmanned submersible to track climate change by studying coral at unprecedented depths in Australian waters."
"Swarms of lowly thumb-sized ocean creatures that often resemble chains of transparent Gummy Bears play a critical role in transporting a greenhouse g...
"A French study suggested that iron supply changes from deep water to the ocean`s surface might have a greater effect on atmospheric CO2 than thought....
"Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has melted to its lowest volume in recorded history, according to new measurements."
"Addressing leaders of the world's most important economies early Thursday, President Obama wasted no time in proclaiming a new day for U.S. policy on...
"The Arctic icecap is now shrinking at record rates in the winter as well as summer, adding to evidence of disastrous melting near the North Pole."
"Scientists have installed measuring devices to track the movement of a large piece of ice that is splitting off the Amery Ice Shelf in east Antarctic...
"The decrease of rainfall along the eastern seaboard of Africa is now linked with the warming-up of the nearby Indian Ocean as a study conducted by th...
"When a 1991 cholera outbreak that killed thousands in Peru was traced to plankton blooms fueled by warmer-than-usual coastal waters, linking disease ...
"A massive iceberg covering more than 2500 square kilometers has fallen off Antarctica after being dislodged by another floating chunk of ice."
"Known by some scientists as 'the other carbon problem,' the increased amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide (caused by the burning of fossil fuels) a...
"Data showing Arctic sea ice may reach its lowest level on record this summer underscores the need for governments to speed up talks on a new climate ...
"New Zealand authorities are warning ships to be on the look out for icebergs drifting north from Antarctica and say they could pose a hazard as they ...
"Forty miles off the New Jersey shore, an international team of scientists is grappling with a worrisome phenomenon: The oceans are slowly rising."
"An absence of rain has made Melbourne's beaches the clearest they have been in decades, Port Phillip Bay water experts say."
"Thousands of fish are dying, ducks are catching botulism and some species of wildlife are being driven to extinction from some waterways as the impac...
"A decrease in airborne dust and volcanic emissions has contributed to warming the North Atlantic Ocean in the past three decades, a study showed."
"On the beach at Monster, bulldozers painstakingly turn sand dredged from the bottom of the North Sea bed into dunes in an ambitious effort to safegua...
"With the Copenhagen summit starting Monday, chances remain uncertain for a historic breakthrough in the fight to prevent climate change, but the Neth...
"Low-lying Netherlands must spend more than 100 billion euros on dike upgrades and coastal expansion to avoid the ravages of rising sea levels due to ...
"Sea levels on the United States' mid-Atlantic coast are rising faster than the global average because of global warming, threatening the future of co...
"This has been the world's warmest winter since record-keeping began more than a century ago, the U.S. government agency that tracks weather reported ...
"During the most recent period in Earth's past with a climate warmer than today, the tropical Pacific was in a stable state of El Nino-like conditions...
"Sea lions are showing up in large numbers on the coast of central and northern California as the El Niño pushes warm water further north."
"The past month has seen the ocean off Western Australia cooling down -- the first sign of rain."
"A new cycle of tropical ocean warming — a 'subset' of climate troublemaker El Niño — could be key to predicting hurricanes that batter the USA, accor...
"The U.S. Climate Prediction Center said Thursday the El Niño weather anomaly should strengthen this fall and through the 2009/10 northern hemisphere ...
"The El Niño weather pattern is to blame for most changes in the climate, a report has claimed."
"An international team of scientists have devised a system that could help obtain better real-time coverage of the Antarctic Ocean's temperature chang...
"Using supercomputers in the United States and Japan, the study calculated how frozen soil would interact with air temperatures, snow, sea ice changes...
"The White House in December refused to accept the Environmental Protection Agency’s conclusion that greenhouse gases are pollutants that must be cont...
"The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday formally declared carbon dioxide and five other heat-trapping gases to be pollutants that threaten publ...
"Old Alaskan oil wells could be swallowed by the ocean as rising temperatures speed up erosion of the state's Arctic coastline."
"Emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide rose in the European Union by 1.5% in 2003 after falling in 2002..."
"The European Union says it will push for legally-binding global restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions."
"The European Union called here Monday for countries to pool data from scientific research in the Arctic to help give the world a barometer of global ...
"he offshore wooden barrier that once protected the sand and clay cliffs of this stretch of eastern English coast has broken apart, and the government...
"Leading experts in sea ecosystems are in Hobart to discuss how to deal with the increasing acidification of the ocean."
"A British explorer unveiled plans Tuesday to kayak all the way to the North Pole to expose just how quickly the ice cap is melting."
"On the 27th day of their trek, a dozen "black specks" of humanity crawling across Antarctica's vast white silence, Lou Albershardt heard a sound she'...
"Private forecaster AccuWeather.com said on Wednesday it expects four tropical storms to strike the U.S. coastline during the 2009 Atlantic season, wh...
"Of 244 glaciers studied, 87% have shown a net retreat since photographic evidence was first collected in the 1940s..."
"The authors warn that climate change is probably to blame for the move, which could drive some commercially fished species out of the sea completely....
"Fish have lost half their average body mass and smaller species are making up a larger proportion of European fish stocks as a result of global warmi...
"A big fleet of up to 20 icebergs is drifting north towards New Zealand, after passing sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island."
"Great floods beneath the Antarctic ice sheet can now be linked directly to the speed at which that ice moves towards the ocean, scientists say."
"A new US report concludes that Florida and Louisiana are the states most vulnerable to sea-level rise, followed by North Carolina and Texas."
"To explore the link between climate change and air pollution, a La Jolla scientist and his colleagues will launch a trans-Pacific journey Tuesday wit...
"The world is likely to experience the warmest year on record in 2007, the UK's Met Office has forecast."
"Even before it began six months ago, the 2006 hurricane season already had exceeded all previous ones in several categories: hype, anticipation, prog...
"Fossilised giant clams and coral may show for the first time how droughts have become more frequent.."
"Hurricanes feed on warm water, and a study has found a link between warming ocean temperatures and human use of fossil fuels."
"The discovery of a fossilised coral reef sitting high and dry at the southern tip of Western Australia has provided a warning that climate change is ...
"Melting Arctic ice that flows into the Labrador Sea could affect the climate along the Labrador coast, and elsewhere in the North Atlantic, new resea...
"Massive, futuristic schemes to spur land and sea into sucking up greenhouse gases may help the fight against global warming but are no substitute for...
"It looks like something out of a Dan Dare comic book, and it might just help to save the world."
"A large mass of ice broke off of Greenland's Petermann glacier on August 5th, 2010; the largest ice island to calve off Greenland since 1962. The ice...
"An iceberg the size of Luxembourg has broken off from a glacier in Antarctica after being rammed by another giant iceberg, scientists said on Friday,...
"Contrary to common belief, melting glaciers due to global warming contribute more to the rising sea level than melting of the Antarctic and Greenland...
"The melting of mountain glaciers worldwide is accelerating, a clear sign that climate change is also picking up, the UN environmental agency and scie...
"Two decades ago, the strip of sand between the Pacific Ocean and the Andean foothills was empty except for the occasional fig or carob tree. But the ...
"U.S. and European researchers said carbon dioxide emissions are growing faster, despite efforts to curb the release of CO2."
"Climate activists have gathered on the steps of Sydney's iconic Opera House and along the city's beaches to kick off an international day of protest ...
"Estimates of how much the world's sea level would rise because of global warming may have been significantly underestimated..."
"Scientists aboard Australia's national research vessel say corals found about 600 kilometres north of Darwin could already be showing signs of global...
"Climate change is affecting the growth of fish, with those living in warmer, shallow waters growing faster and species in cooling deep ocean waters g...
"'My estimate is in the vicinity of 95 to 98 per cent of the coral is bleached in the Keppels'..."
"Fish species on the Great Barrier Reef are starving to death because climate change is killing their food source."
"The Great Barrier Reef could be dead in 20 years unless there is a drastic reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, a marine biology expert said today....
"Scientists studying Australia’s Great Barrier Reef may have detected the first signs of impact of ocean acidification after finding a sharp cut in gr...
"Northern parts of the Great Barrier Reef is likely to suffer severe coral bleaching this summer, the conservation group WWF Australia warns."
"Rising concentrations of acid in the Southern Ocean caused by greenhouse gases are damaging the ability of some sea creatures to form shells, posing ...
"Greenhouse gases are endangering the world's coral reefs and could also pose threats to lobsters, sea urchins, clams, and scallops far away in the Gu...
"Satellite measurements of the Kangerdlugssuaq glacier show that, as well as moving more rapidly, the glacier's boundary is shrinking dramatically - p...
"Pacific nations threatened with disappearing beneath the waves as sea levels rise have been given a partial reprieve – for a few decades at least."
"A drastic climate shift such as a thaw of Greenland's ice or death of the Amazon forest is more than 50 percent likely by the year 2200 in cases of s...
"Two U.S. explorers plan to start a four-month summer expedition to the North Pole next month to gather information on the habitat of an animal they b...
"A top Indian advocacy group that monitors climate change in south Asia warned last night that the Nargis cyclone that devastated Burma was 'a sign of...
"Nearly half of the world's coral reefs may be lost in the next 40 years unless urgent measures are taken to protect them against the threat of climat...
"A University of Manitoba climate researcher says the growth of Arctic sea ice in 2008 is not cause for optimism."
"...one of the “engines” driving the Gulf Stream — the sinking of supercooled water in the Greenland Sea — has weakened to less than a quarter of its ...
"Jenn Boneza remembers when the white sandy beach near the boat ramp in her hometown was wide enough for people to build sand castles."
"For the second summer in a row, the glacier state has been baking under sweltering skies, stirring anxieties about global warming and its impact on t...
"Coral reefs, already declining in many areas around the world, face even tougher times ahead, say scientists. Warming and increasingly acidic oceans,...
"With Qatar's open sea water temperature touching a high 37 degree Celsius, its coastal lines have turned into a graveyard of fish and invertebrates."
"New York, Boston, Halifax and other cities in the northeastern United States and Canada could come under greater threat from sea level rise due to me...
"Rising ocean temperatures are directly linked to a worldwide increase in hurricane strength over the past 35 years, a research team reported Thursday...
" Researchers have found an increase in phytoplankton on the surface of the Arabian sea caused by stronger monsoon winds originating in Asia."
"An environmental expert in St Andrews has warned the year 2050 could see the town's famous golf course, the Old Course, crumble into the North Sea."
"Climate Change Minister Penny Wong says she thinks a legally binding treaty on climate change is still some way off after a meeting between developed...
"Indian and German scientists have said that a controversial experiment has 'dampened hopes' that dumping hundreds of tonnes of dissolved iron in the ...
"Some sought-after coastal properties could fall in value because insurers are refusing to cover them for extreme weather events linked to global warm...
"A review of the scientific knowledge about global warming's effect on the El Nino weather pattern, has found that while there'll be changes, scientis...
"...showing the extent to which human activity — in particular deforestation and crop irrigation — is affecting the global circulation of water vapou...
" A leading group of epidemiologists, veterinarians and ecologists report that humans are affecting the oceans in ways that are changing the dynamics ...
"Stretching from the coast of West Africa to the Caribbean is a band of warm water several hundred miles wide where most Atlantic tropical storm syste...
"Hurricane forecasters at Colorado State University say weather patterns indicate that October will see above-average Atlantic storm activity."
"A Russian parliamentary committee has warned that the Arctic ice cap may be gone by 2070, wiping out animal species and displacing the region's indig...
"The Greenland ice cap is melting so quickly that it is triggering earthquakes as pieces of ice several cubic kilometers in size break off."
"Nobody knows how many walruses the world holds. Recent surveys by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and others put the number at roughly 19...
"There could be a brief time this summer when there is no ice on the North Pole, a US scientist said overnight, blaming global warming that has melted...
"Thousands of walrus have appeared on Alaska's northwest coast in what conservationists are calling a dramatic consequence of global warming melting t...
"Scientists have for the first time found evidence that polar bears are drowning because climate change is melting the Arctic ice shelf."
"Open water now stretches all the way round the Arctic, making it possible for the first time in human history to circumnavigate the North Pole, The I...
"Global warming, blamed for melting polar bears' icy Arctic habitat, could be a boon to the shipping and oil industries in the far north, according to...
"Sheets of ice existed during very hot periods of Earth's history when there were alligators living in the Arctic, a new international study has found...
"The spectacular disintegration of Antarctica's "Larsen-B" Ice Shelf was unprecedented since the last ice age, according to a recent study to be publi...
"Two ice shelves in Canada's far north have lost massive sections since August while a third ice shelf now is adrift in the Arctic Ocean, said researc...
"There's an icebreaker here, but little ice to break."
"As Captain Benoit Hebert steers the icebreaker l'Astrolabe on Monday through a stormy Southern Ocean heading for Antarctica his thoughts will soon tu...
"In a new research, scientists have obtained evidence for ice-free summers with intermittent winter sea ice in the Arctic Ocean during the Late Cretac...
"Ten of Britain's most iconic coastal landmarks face being lost forever after conservationists admitted defeat in the battle against rising sea levels...
"The worst wildfires in history are still raging in the state of Victoria, triggered by an intense heatwave in southeast Australia."
"Droughts in Australia have traditionally been linked to El Nino events in the Pacific Ocean, but a new study says the key driver of major droughts ha...
"The New Zealand government says it will seriously consider backing international court action to stop whaling in the Southern Ocean, but only if dipl...
"Indian Ocean sea levels are rising unevenly, posing a threat to residents in some densely populated coastal areas and islands, a new study says."
"The Indonesian National Council on Climate Change (DNPI) pledged to help table output of the World Ocean Conference (WOC) to international negotiatio...
"The Arctic Inuit who are losing their ice caps and activists demanding urgent action on global warming are among thousands hitting the streets around...
"Polar bears are losing the floes they need for hunting. Seals, unable to find stable ice, are hauling up on islands to give birth."
"Northern Canadians told an international commission last week that carbon emissions from the United States have contributed so much to global warming...
"Just when the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change thought it could put mistakes of the fourth assessment report behind it and
carry on with...
"Island countries from Grenada in the Caribbean to the Maldives in the Indian Ocean are telling delegates at the United Nations climate-change talks t...
"Veu Lesa, a 73-year-old villager in Tuvalu, does not need scientific reports to tell him that the sea is rising."
"Dozens of the world's small island nations appealed Wednesday for rapid international action against climate change, fearing it is only a matter of t...
"Japan can expect to see some of its fish catches decline by as much as 70 percent over the next century due to global warming..."
"The appearance of thousands of jellyfish in Brentwood Bay and other Vancouver Island inlets is part of a global proliferation of the sea species, a w...
"The Environmental Protection Agency does not have to regulate gases linked to climate change as air pollutants, a federal appeals court ruled yesterd...
"Jumbo squid, common to the eastern tropical Pacific, may become rarer if current climate change continues."
"Three decades after a change in ocean climate began creeping into the North Pacific, a team of scientists asserts with unprecedented vigor in a new r...
"Sea ice extended further north in the Southern Ocean during the last Ice Age than previously thought, a New Zealand research team has found in a stud...
"The prospect that the King penguin will go extinct as a result of climate warming is rising inexorably, scientists say today."
"The 32 atolls of Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean make up one of the lowest-lying countries in the world. It's seen as the 'canary in the coalmine' for ...
"The huge eruption of Krakatoa is still keeping the world cool and damping down the rate of sea level rise caused by climate change, thanks to the ash...
"The 168 members of the United Nations' pact for cutting greenhouse gases will launch negotiations in 2008 over the next round of pledges for tackling...
"The global average temperature fell in 2008 as Pacific Ocean winds caused by the La Nina weather phenomenon helped cool the planet."
"Warming trends in a third of the world's large ocean regions are two to four times greater than previously reported averages, increasing the risk to ...
"Using radiocarbon dating, researchers traced the pathway of carbon dioxide released from the deep ocean to the atmosphere at the end of the last ice ...
"The first guidebook of 'last chance saloon' holidays has been published for travelers who want to visit the most endangered tourist destinations acro...
"The frequency and severity of coastal storms and flooding around Cairns and southeast Queensland will increase, prompting a warning from a climate ex...
"A group of 12 Mississippi Gulf Coast homeowners is using a novel legal strategy to try to recoup losses suffered during Hurricane Katrina in 2005."
"The leader of a country slowly being submerged by the Pacific Ocean told an environment conference Thursday that climate change is an issue of human ...
"President Barack Obama declared today a 'meaningful and unprecedented breakthrough' had been reached among the US, China and three other countries on...
"The United Nations concedes finding consensus between more than 160 nations meeting in Bangkok for climate change talks is a daunting task."
"Some crabs, shrimps and lobsters build thicker shells despite oceans growing more acidic due to greenhouse gases, report marine biologists Tuesday."
"A global system to deal with climate change is not likely until 2030 - after Australia, other wealthy nations and possibly China and India have embra...
"A chunk of Antarctic ice about seven times the size of Manhattan suddenly collapsed, putting an even greater portion of glacial ice at risk, scientis...
"The Air Force has begun a two-week effort to haul scientists, supplies and equipment from this base near Tacoma for research into global warming."
"A Jamaica-sized ice shelf is close to wrenching itself away from Antarctica, following dramatic weakening of an ice 'bridge' linking it to the contin...
"An ice island the size of a small city is adrift in the Arctic after breaking free from one of Canada's largest ice shelves, scientists said today."
"A chunk of ice spreading across 7 square miles has broken off a Canadian ice shelf in the Arctic, scientists said Tuesday."
"Many scientists believe that, given enough political will, humanity can still manage to avoid catastrophic climate change."
"With fish as witnesses, the president of Maldives and his Cabinet wore scuba gear and used hand signals Saturday at an underwater meeting to highligh...
"President Mohamed Nasheed is to host an underwater cabinet meeting on October 24 to draw attention to the impact of climate change on the Indian Ocea...
"The president of Maldives, who last year proposed relocating his entire country, is set to chair an underwater Cabinet meeting this month to highligh...
"The climate change debate should be reframed in economic and security terms ahead of a year-end UN summit in Mexico seeking a binding climate deal, t...
"The president of the Maldives says the Indian Ocean nation will become the world's first carbon-neutral country within a decade."
"Global warming could lead to the destruction of more than half the mangrove wetlands of some Pacific islands, wiping out or reducing marine breeding ...
"A massive iceberg spotted southwest of New Zealand could be moving closer."
"A mountain range as big as the Alps has been discovered in the Antarctic, under the world's largest ice sheet."
"The Mediterranean could start generating its own hurricanes if sea temperatures keep rising, a study has warned."
"Melting Arctic sea ice may be attracting more killer whales to Canada's far northern waters, and that could mean some Inuit hunters will be competing...
"Some 5,000 years ago, on a day with weather much like today's, a prehistoric person tread high up in what is now the Swiss Alps, wearing goat leather...
"These are the Klondikers of global warming: men from all over the world who have come to Hammerfest, gateway to the Barents Sea, to make their fortun...
"Runoff from ice caps in Antarctica and Greenland along with melting mountain glaciers have replaced expanding oceans as the main driver of rising sea...
"Polar bears are facing slow elimination over the next century as their vast frozen habitat melts away..."
"Arctic lakes are shrinking, and melting permafrost brought on by higher temperatures may be the reason..."
"In the same way, the melting of sea ice in the Arctic, revealing the dark water below, has been shown by Australian scientists to be the main cause o...
"Researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), predicting the effect climate change and resulting losses of sea ice will have on the pen...
"Melting of the Arctic sea ice due to global warming is diluting surface waters and this is endangering some species of shellfish which need minerals ...
"Scientists have reported an unprecedented number of unaccompanied and possibly abandoned walrus calves in the Arctic Ocean, where melting sea ice may...
"Their most significant finding is that climate change means the gas is being released from more and deeper areas of the Arctic ocean."
"Scientists face difficult challenges in predicting and understanding how much our climate is changing. When it comes to gases that trap heat in our a...
"Global warming could rapidly accelerate as millions of tons of methane escape from beneath the Arctic seabed, scientists warned today."
"Their research revealed that the polar ice sheets are vulnerable to large-scale melting, even under moderate global warming scenarios. According to t...
"In a new research, it has been determined that monsoon drives long-term cycle of the carbon reservoir in the global ocean."
"A climate change meeting has heard concerns the Australian Government is not doing enough to help small Pacific nations from rising sea levels."
"Earth's climate appears to be changing more quickly and deeply than a benchmark UN report for policymakers predicted, top scientists said ahead of in...
"More than half of Europe's plant species will be threatened or classified as vulnerable by 2080 as a consequence of global warming..."
"More than one billion people live in low-lying areas where a sudden surge in sea level could prove as disastrous as the 2004 Asian tsunami, according...
"The polar bear has become an icon of global warming vulnerability, but a new study found an Arctic mammal that may be even more at risk to climate ch...
"James Hansen, the director of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said agency officials had ordered that public affairs officers review his l...
"Nearly half of the Arctic's thick sea ice diminished between the winters of 2004 and 2008, replaced by thinner ice more likely to melt in summer mont...
"Since reaching orbit in 1997, NASA's Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) has had the job of constantly monitoring and measuring ocean col...
"Climate change has emerged as one of the most urgent threats to polar bears as wildlife officials from the five Arctic countries meet in Norway this ...
"Ministers and officials from more than 70 nations called Thursday for oceans to be included on the agenda of global climate change talks aimed at fin...
"Asian delegates at UN climate change talks have renewed calls to protect the region's huge stock of coral reefs, partly blaming global warming for th...
"Natural disasters killed over 220,000 people in 2008, making it one of the most devastating years on record and underlining the need for a global cli...
"Scientists have identified new rifts on an Antarctic ice shelf that could lead to it breaking away from the Antarctic Peninsula, the European Space A...
"Scientists have been investigating the mechanisms by which Antarctic icebergs detach from the main continental ice sheet because of the importance of...
"More than 40 countries are backing calls for an international organisation to police governments that fail to act against climate change. It would al...
"Many countries would love to bury the problem of rising carbon dioxide levels and forget about it. Soon they will be able to do just that, hiding CO2...
"Unless enormous amounts of soil are dumped onto the Mississippi River Delta, the region could lose up to 5,212 square miles of land to ocean and tida...
"...the country becomes the first in the world to introduce a carbon tax to address global warming."
"British scientists are predicting a succession of record-breaking high temperatures in the most detailed forecast of global warming's impact on weath...
"Global warming will resume its upward climb again next year, the British Met Office predicted yesterday at the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen - ...
"The Nile Delta is under threat from rising sea levels. Without the food it produces, Egypt faces catastrophe."
"Marine Scientists are trying to determine whether damage to the Ningaloo reef is linked to climate change."
"The largest ice island in almost 50 years poses no immediate threat as it will take up to two years to drift through the Arctic Ocean, the Canadian w...
"Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N. climate panel widens a definition of peacemaking and will raise pressure...
"Nobel Prize-winning climate change researcher Stephen Schneider has died at the age of 65."
"The authors of a new paper published this week argue that warmer water in the North Atlantic Ocean - often cited as being caused by climate change an...
"The North Sea is emerging as a center of development of carbon capture and storage technology, and it's not just because of the region's tightening r...
"Underwater geological formations have the potential to store CO2 captured from power stations and transported to the sites under the process known as...
"Global warming will reportedly influence the north and south of Europe in different ways. According to the European Commission’s first extensive repo...
"Scotland has the resources to capture and store all of Britain's carbon output for at least 200 years in a new industry that could create 10,000 jobs...
"In areas such as California — where lawmakers passed a bill last week to curb industrial carbon dioxide emissions 25% by 2020 — the Sleipner platform...
"Long-awaited climate change legislation has been unveiled in Washington, but its backers do not know when it will get to the floor of the US Senate f...
"U.S. environmental groups see Barack Obama's presidential victory as a chance to undo the Bush legacy on global warming."
"Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are causing ocean acidification to progress at an unprecedented rate, a new American research has found."
"Marine researchers are warning increasing ocean acidity may starve corals to death."
"The rate at which the oceans are becoming more acidic is greater today than at any time in tens of millions of years, according to a new study."
"Man-made pollution is raising ocean acidity at least 10 times faster than previously thought, a study says."
"The oceans' ability to act as a 'carbon sink' soaking up greenhouse gases appears to be decreasing, research shows, leading to new fears about global...
"Scientists have built a climate model which has suggested that ocean changes may bring about a megadrought in the US that would span a period of 500 ...
"A low-lying island in a sprawling mangrove delta which has been disputed by India and Bangladesh for almost 30 years will be squabbled over no more."
"A Swiss-led study has found the concentration of carbon dioxide in the world's oceans has a significant influence on the Earth's global warming patte...
"A new study of Pacific Ocean plankton throws a wrench into scientists' understanding of how the world's oceans will respond to climate change."
"'Dead zones' containing too little oxygen for fish to breathe are growing as global temperatures increase."
"Dead zones where fish and most marine life can no longer survive are spreading across the continental shelves of the world's oceans at an alarming ra...
"The oceans' 'deserts,' where it is difficult for marine organisms to survive, are expanding faster than predicted and have been linked to warming oce...
"Deep near the ocean floor, where the quiet secrets of an alternate marine world sleep, scientists are talking about trapping and locking large amount...
"The German science ministry has suspended a planned Indo–German ocean fertilization experiment in the Southern Ocean, and asked the German research i...
"A plan to combat global warming by fertilizing the ocean may backfire by triggering toxic algal blooms, a new study suggests."
"Scientists are considering a plan to combat climate change by dumping millions of tons of iron into the ocean to alter its chemical make-up."
"A research ship is about to begin a project around the Galapagos Islands, in the Pacific Ocean, that will highlight the importance of marine plankton...
"Global ocean levels are rising twice as fast today as they were 150 years ago, and human-induced warming appears to be the culprit..."
"New satellite data show the vital base of the ocean food chain -- hytoplankton --decreases when the world's seas warm up and that has scientists worr...
"The most determined attempt yet to make the ocean soak up more greenhouse gas has failed to achieve a significant impact, dealing a blow to the contr...
"Oceans have heated up much more rapidly in the past four decades from global warming than scientists had thought."
"Some coral reefs could be protected from the impacts of climate change by an 'ocean thermostat,' a study says."
"Energy groups Statoil and Shell plan the world's biggest scheme to bury industrial gases beneath the seabed in a $1.2-$1.5 billion project off Norway...
" A new study using satellite measurements of Arctic sea ice have revealed that thinner ice that's only two or three years old now accounts for 58 per...
"Scientists linking the increased strength of hurricanes over recent years to global warming have not accounted for outdated technology that may have ...
"Researchers at the University of Rhode Island have won a $1 million grant to study changes in the Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea attributed to global wa...
"One-fifth of the world’s corals have died and many remaining reefs may be lost by 2050 as carbon dioxide from cars and pollution-spewing industries m...
"For the past 20 years climatologists and ice and atmosphere scientists have been working in Alaska studying climate change. Now they have discovered ...
"Bluff's oyster fisheries in Foveaux Strait may be at the top of a hit list of species vulnerable to increasing acidity levels in the oceans, scientis...
"The protective ozone layer over the Arctic has thinned this winter to the lowest levels since records began, alarming scientists who believed it had ...
"Climate scientists may have significantly underestimated the power of global warming from human-generated heat-trapping gases to shrink the cap of se...
"Greenland's glaciers are dumping more than twice as much ice into the Atlantic Ocean now as 10 years ago because glaciers are sliding off the land mo...
"Two new scientific studies measuring Greenland's rapidly melting ice sheet and the pace of Antarctic snowfall suggest that the sea level may be risin...
"The Pacific has grown more acidic over the past 15 years largely because of the water's intake of carbon dioxide released by humans burning fossil fu...
"In 2005, when most of the millions of Pacific oysters in this tree-lined estuary failed to reproduce, Washington's shellfish growers largely shrugged...
"The oxygen-starved "dead zone" along the Pacific Coast that is causing massive crab and fish die-offs is worse than initially thought..."
"Climate change that strengthens the El Nino weather patterns could endanger food supplies for more than 20 million people in Africa, a new study warn...
"The phenomenon known as El Niño — where Pacific Ocean waters warm up, often bringing wet winters for California — is intensifying, according to a new...
"The money will go towards a three-year project to help prediction work in Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvala, ...
"North Pacific shellfish—including snails and other mollusks—may blaze a path across the Arctic Ocean to the North Atlantic if the sea ice melts in co...
"The trade winds in the Pacific Ocean are weakening as a result of global warming, according to a new study that indicates changes to the region's bio...
"Squealing pigs lit out for the bush and Filomena Taroa herded the grandkids to higher ground last week when the sea rolled in deeper than anyone had ...
"Pacific Ocean temperatures remained at levels typical of a drought-bringing El Nino weather pattern, Australia's Bureau of Meteorology said on Wednes...
"The Antarctic Peninsula became a dustier place during the 20th century, according to researchers who have tracked the dust back to Patagonia."
"DNA in the bones of Adélie penguins that survived the last ice age are helping to shed light on how other animals will cope with climate change, say ...
"Genetic 'featherprints' are being used to map the movements of penguins and see how they are affected by global warming."
"The environmental conservation group WWF is warning that rising temperatures and the resulting loss of sea ice is robbing the emblematic birds of the...
"A big section of the Norfolk Broads as well as a cluster of villages and thousands of acres of farmland face being surrendered to the sea under secre...
"Sediment cores collected from the seafloor off Southern California reveal that plankton populations in the Northeastern Pacific changed significantly...
"Nine polar bears found swimming 20 to 100 kilometres off the northwest coast of Alaska last week represent another sign that the rapid retreat of ice...
"Scientists who flew a modified corporate jet from pole to pole to study how greenhouse gases move found carbon dioxide piling up over the Arctic, but...
"The Yangtze River gets more than half of China's industrial waste and sewage. Europe's Danube has lost most of its surrounding wetlands. And the Rio ...
"'It is the poorest of the poor in the world, even the poorest in the most prosperous nations, who are going to be the worst hit and are the most vuln...
"Scientists probing the possibility of storing carbon emissions under the ocean floor admit it is no silver bullet solution to climate change."
"Sea levels in Puget Sound are likely to rise half a foot by midcentury, according to a new analysis that not only factors in global warming, but also...
"The Amazon rainforest is being destroyed at near record levels..."
"The world's largest frozen peat bog is melting. An area stretching for a million square kilometres across the permafrost of western Siberia is turnin...
"With a record number of dead seabirds washing up on West Coast beaches from Central California to British Columbia, marine biologists are raising the...
"The cement that buttresses coral reefs, giving them the strength to withstand crashing waves and other onslaughts, may stop forming as oceans acidify...
"Increasingly acidic oceans and warming water temperatures due to carbon dioxide emissions could kill off the world's ocean reefs by the end of this c...
"Russian scientists are evacuating a research station built on an Arctic ice floe because global warming has melted the ice to a fraction of its origi...
"The predicted rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide will wreak havoc on krill, the tiny crustacean at the heart of the Antarctic food web, a study has s...
"The team envisages 100 vast nets full of quick-growing seaweed, each measuring six miles by six miles, floating off the northeast coast of Japan."
"Global warming could have an unexpected effect on the clownfish star of Finding Nemo and his kind, by making them indulge in risky behavior, say rese...
"Nova Scotia is in danger of being cut off from the rest of Canada as the Atlantic Ocean rises, according to the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental...
"A fear that sea levels will rise far faster than predicted this century has led to a revision of the plan to protect London from a devastating flood ...
"A huge swathe of China's booming Pearl River Delta will be 'engulfed' by rising sea water by the middle of the century because of global warming, sta...
"Rising sea levels and stormy weather may damage the Giant's Causeway and other coastal areas of Northern Ireland, the National Trust has warned."
"Throughout the tiny Native American tribe's history they have lived and fished on the westernmost point of Washington state where the river that shar...
"Rising sea levels as a result of climate change will erode Sydney's iconic beaches by 2050, with some at risk of disappearing, and threaten beachfron...
"Washington's low-lying capital city is a bit nervous in planning a new $38 million City Hall near the shoreline of Puget Sound, fearing that global w...
"Certainly nature would have forced these islands to shift size and shape, drowning some, giving rise to others. But there is little doubt, scientists...
"The tiny island nation of Tuvalu is the lowest lying nation on Earth and is struggling with the effects of rising sea levels and frequent storm surge...
"Rising global temperatures are taking their toll on Puget Sound, as less mountain snow funnels less freshwater into estuaries, rising oceans transfor...
"A robot submarine has found clues to rising world sea levels by making trips deep beneath an ice shelf in Antarctica, scientists said on Tuesday."
"A fossil record of the Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum) shows population-wide changes in body size and morphology in response to climate change ...
"An Australian research ship has docked in Hobart after a Southern Ocean voyage which has uncovered new evidence of climate change."
"Now, new research shows these marine plants may have an even greater impact on the health of our oceans and climate than previously thought."
"Data from satellites is showing that sea-level rises and polar ice-melting might be worse than earlier thought, a leading oceanographer said on Monda...
"The voluntary plan, announced at a United Nations conference on the environment, put the Republican governor on a different course from the Bush admi...
"Britain must establish a network of research bases around the North Pole and Arctic to monitor and predict the impact of climate change, leading scie...
"Changes to the climate due to human activity can now be detected on every continent, following a study showing that temperature rises in the Antarcti...
"During the two-week voyage from Hobart to the Antarctic ice at Casey station, a team of biologists aboard the ship Aurora Australis were busy fishing...
"Scientists have long agreed that climate change could have a profound impact on the planet; from melting ice sheets and withering rainforests, to fla...
"Marine scientists say Federal Government funding is allowing them to study the impact of the east Australian current (EAC) on the nation's climate, r...
"Antarctica is warming, but not melting anything like as much as expected. In fact, during the continent's summer this time last year, there was less ...
"Australian scientists are going microscopic in a pioneering effort to better understand climate change."
"US scientists have figured out how icebergs break off Antarctica and Greenland, a finding that may help predict rising sea levels as the climate warm...
"Arctic sea ice declined this year to the lowest levels registered since satellite assessments started in the 1970s, extending a trend fuelled by huma...
"CSIRO marine scientists say the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and scientists worldwide are neglecting the earth's oceans in researching t...
"Fluctuations in sea-surface temperatures to the north of Australia and changes in atmospheric circulation patterns over the sub-tropical Indian Ocean...
"Di Wrightson used to complain that a row of bungalows blocked the view of the sea from her home in the picturesque village of Happisburgh, pronounced...
"Scientists have issued a new warning about climate change after discovering a sudden and dramatic collapse in the amount of carbon emissions absorbed...
"The fast-sinking feces of an obscure sea creature play a significant role in removing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere..."
"Scientists are hoping coral they have taken from the floor of the southern ocean can unlock the secrets of climate change."
"The fossil record from oceans around New Zealand shows a sudden discharge of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere at the end of the last ice age,...
"Towering at the top of the food chain, the polar bear need not worry about predators but nonetheless faces a daunting enemy: climate change, which is...
"Federal marine mammal experts in Alaska studying the effects of global warming on walrus, polar bears and ice seals warn there are limit to the prote...
"An expansion of sea ice around Antarctica is linked to a hole in the ozone layer high in the atmosphere, according to a study that helps clear up a m...
"Rising sea levels caused by global warming could destroy the UK's only major nuclear waste dump in as little as 500 years, according to a report by t...
"Sea levels are rising quicker than previously thought because the amount of water Greenland's glaciers are dumping into the Atlantic Ocean has almost...
"The reality is that, when the moon is full, the ocean waves at high tide are several feet higher than ever in the past, according to longtime island ...
"More than two-thirds of the world's large cities are in areas vulnerable to global warming and rising sea levels, and millions of people are at risk ...
"Lady Young, chief executive of the Agency, said that salt water could overwhelm the defences around the Broads in a century or as little as one year'...
"Rising sea levels caused by global warming could destroy the Norfolk Broads and Thames Estuary within a hundred years, climatologists will warn this ...
"Indonesia's environment minister said Tuesday that global warming was to blame after the capital of Jakarta was partially flooded, forcing thousands ...
"Rising seas caused by global warming and other factors will have dire consequences for New Jersey, submerging sections of the state's highly develope...
"A new analysis halves long-standing projections of how much sea levels could rise if Antarctica's western ice sheets fully disintegrated as a result ...
"They were the most successful animals on the planet – and the most ferocious. They ruled the world for 100 million years."
"The California dream, which has led 30 million people to make their homes near its 2,000 miles of coastline, may sour as global warming triggers risi...
"Three of Australia's most popular beaches could be wiped out by rising sea levels in less than 100 years thanks to climate change, a Sydney mayor sai...
"Ultimately, rising seas will likely swamp the first American settlement in Jamestown, Va., as well as the Florida launch pad that sent the first Amer...
"Rising sea levels could swamp sections of the Eastern Shore, eat away islands in the Chesapeake Bay and submerge long stretches of Atlantic Ocean bea...
"Maine's sand beaches bring about $500 million of new money into the state each year and support some 8,000 jobs, but the beach economy could be put i...
"Sea levels will rise at widely varying rates around the world because of a quirk of the earth's gravity linked to global warming."
"The sea level along China's coastal areas will rise 0.032 meter in the next decade, according to a report by the State Oceanic Administration."
"Global warming and a resulting rise in sea levels present a direct threat to the world's seaports -- and many of California's harbors are nowhere nea...
"Satavaya is a small village in coastal Orissa, which probably has zero emissions of greenhouse gases but is already paying the price of global warmin...
"Flooded roads and subways, deformed railroad tracks and weakened bridges may be the wave of the future with continuing global warming, a new US study...
"A new study on the global effects of climate change has established that net sea level rise along the Arabian Sea coast has been 1-2 mm per year over...
"Melting ice and warming waters have raised average sea levels worldwide by more than an inch since 1995, new data from space satellites and robotic s...
"The melting of West Antarctic ice sheet, Antarctica’s most vulnerable part, could raise global sea levels by up to five meters."
"Warming trends in a third of the world's large ocean regions are two to four times greater than previously reported averages, increasing the risk to ...
"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced yesterday that it will evaluate whether four kinds of seals inhabiting Alaska's Bering ...
"The current warming trends in the Arctic may shove the Arctic system into a seasonally ice-free state not seen for more than one million years, accor...
"Sea-surface temperatures have been warming in the tropical Pacific Ocean, suggesting the potential for the development of the El Niño climate phenome...
"A tremendous loss in the number of large predator sharks in the Atlantic Ocean during the past 10 years has left smaller species free to pig out on l...
"Shark sightings closed New Jersey beaches for the second day in a row Thursday, causing more curiosity than panic among bathers, lifeguards said."
"An ice bridge which held a vast Antarctic ice shelf in place shattered at the weekend and could herald a wider collapse linked to global warming, a l...
"The delicate interplay between the oceans and atmosphere is changing with catastrophic consequences."
"A Norwegian glacier has shrunk on an island 1,000 km from the North Pole, a usually frozen fjord is ice-free and snow bunting birds have migrated bac...
"The rivers that course down from the Himalayas and into this crowded delta bring an annual tide of gift and curse. They flood low-lying paddy fields ...
"A leading coral atoll expert has called on the Australian federal government to fund more research into rising sea levels to fully assess the threat ...
"With predictions sea levels could rise by up to 32 centimetres by 2050, a number of Pacific islands could be rendered uninhabitable within a decade."
"The United States and five Asian and Pacific nations, including China and India, agreed Wednesday on a partnership to use cleaner energy technologies...
"The polar ice cap is expected to grow more slowly this winter due to a higher-than-expected sea temperature in Arctic waters, scientists have claimed...
"Growth rates among corals on the Great Barrier Reef have slumped to their slowest in at least four centuries and growth is expected to cease within 2...
"Some coral reefs may be able to adapt to rising ocean temperatures, a consequence of global climate change."
"The sound of millions of tonnes of ice breaking away from the South Pole may be climate change's canary in the earth's climatic coal mine, scientists...
"Scientists have been given greater insights into how the Southern Ocean influences climate change, thanks to a regularly used shipping route."
"A 15-year research project has revealed that changes in wind patterns are contributing to rising sea temperatures in the Southern Ocean."
"Each year nearly 40,000 tons of cosmic dust fall to Earth from outer space. Now, the first successful chronological study of extraterrestrial dust in...
"Forests of spruce trees are invading the Arctic tundra because of global warming and evicting and endangering species that live there quicker than sc...
"Starving fish are killing sections of the Great Barrier Reef already weakened by climate change, an Australian scientist says."
"Sea lions are starving to death in unusual numbers along Chile’s northern coast, signaling the weather shift known as El Niño is taking hold in the P...
"A difference in the way British and American ships measured the temperature of the ocean during the 1940s may explain why the world appeared to under...
"...research shows that the loss of so much ice will trigger dramatic rises in sea levels, ultimately swamping low-lying islands and coastal regions a...
"Global warming isn't to blame for the recent jump in hurricanes in the Atlantic, concludes a study by a prominent federal scientist whose position ha...
"Disease spread by global warming could kill an extra 185 million people in sub-Saharan Africa by the end of the century and turn millions more into r...
"Global warming, not natural fluctuations in ocean temperature, was the main cause of the ocean heat that energized last year's killer hurricanes..."
"The microscopic plants that underpin all life in the oceans are likely to be destroyed by global warming..."
"One of the biggest glaciers in the southern hemisphere shrivelled by a fifth in 40 years, French scientists said on Wednesday."
"New computer modeling suggests the Arctic Ocean may be nearly ice-free in the summertime as early as 2014, Al Gore said Monday at the U.N. climate co...
"Small changes in the energy output of the sun can have a major impact on global weather patterns, such as the intensity of the Indian monsoon, that c...
"A group of British explorers has started a grueling trek to the North Pole to carry out a survey of the floating ice in the Arctic Ocean."
"From the micro to the macro, from plankton in the oceans to polar bears in the far north and seals in the far south, global warming has begun changin...
"To cope with rising sea levels, a Dutch planning agency has proposed diverting part of the Rhine River to an inland lake far from its normal outlet b...
"Three British explorers set out on a skiing expedition on Monday across 500 kilometers (310 miles) of floating sea ice to investigate rising acid lev...
"There's no shortage of ideas for high-tech measures to combat global warming: develop clean biofuels made of corn or palm oil, ramp up production of ...
"The UK's weather service, the Met Office is to publish station temperature records that make up the global land surface temperature record."
"A piece of the Antarctic ice sheet the size of Texas is thinning, possibly due to global warming, and could cause the world's oceans to rise signific...
"Crabs scuttle across the wet floor of the near-deserted Khun Samut temple, the only building left in a Thai village that has disappeared beneath the ...
"Only a few months after suffering its worst floods in a decade, Thailand is readying for an El Nino-related drought likely to hit rubber and rice out...
"Lewis Gordon Pugh, 36, a lawyer who wants to draw attention to a World Wildlife Federation campaign on climate change, finished at Southend, Essex."
"Tiny marine creatures found on the seabed on opposite sides of the vast West Antarctic ice sheet give a strong hint of the risks of sea level rise ca...
"Tokyo's outspoken governor on Wednesday berated world leaders for their 'foolish' failure to halt global warming as major cities met to plan action o...
"President Mohammed Nasheed of the Maldives said on Monday that he plans to levy a climate tax on tourists visiting the tiny archipelago nation in the...
"Sirens sounded across Venice yesterday as flooding submerged 95 per cent of the city and left tourists in St Mark’s Square thigh-deep in water."
"A specially-built radar will take 10 million measurements of the permanent Arctic Ocean sea ice early next year."
"The impact of global warming has become obvious in high latitude regions, including Alaska, Siberia and the Arctic, where melting ice and softening t...
"The tiny Pacific island state of Tuvalu on Thursday urged the rest of the world to do more to combat global warming before it sinks beneath the ocean...
"Two leading UK climate researchers say some of their peers are 'overplaying' the global warming message and risk confusing the public about the threa...
"A rise of at least two meters in the world's sea levels is now almost unstoppable, experts told a climate conference at Oxford University on Tuesday....
"An atlas of environmental change compiled by the United Nations reveals some of the dramatic transformations that are occurring to our planet."
"UN chief Ban Ki-moon has warned of 'incalculable' human suffering if the world fails to reach a deal at crucial climate change talks this December."
"An international review panel has called on the UN global climate change body to carry out fundamental reforms after embarrassing errors in a landmar...
"A deteriorating environment could drive about 50 million people from their homes by 2010 and the world needs to define a new category of "environment...
'International rules allowing burial of greenhouse gases beneath the seabed are in force in what will be a step toward fighting global warming, if sto...
"UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he was 'alarmed' by the rate at which the Arctic's glaciers are retreating as he visited the region."
"Major world commercial fish stocks could collapse within decades as global warming compounds damage from pollution and overfishing, U.N. officials sa...
"This year is likely to go down as the hottest, stormiest and driest ever on Planet Earth, making a strong case for the urgent need to combat global w...
"A pair of New Jersey-built undersea probes and eight Rutgers University researchers are documenting a dramatic climate shift near the bottom of the w...
"Scientists envisage unmanned labs on the floor of the ocean to conduct experiments and monitor climate change."
"Analyses from Aura's Microwave Limb Sounder indicated Arctic chemical ozone destruction this past winter peaked at near 50 percent in some regions of...
"There's a 65 percent chance of a more active than average hurricane season this year, with as many as nine hurricanes occurring in the Atlantic Ocean...
"The US voiced support today for a report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change laying out proposals to fight climate change."
"The Obama administration approved a management plan yesterday for Arctic fisheries that prevents the expansion of commercial fishing into vast swaths...
"More frequent and powerful hurricanes from the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico since the mid-1990s have created one of the most dangerous and costl...
"Large parts of Venice were flooded on Monday as heavy rains and strong winds lashed the lagoon city, with sea levels at their highest level in 22 yea...
"A tiny Alaska village eroding into the Arctic Ocean sued two dozen oil, power and coal companies, claiming that the large amounts of greenhouse gases...
"The fragile marine ecosystems of Antarctica are facing a growing risk from icebergs floating freely in coastal waters due to global warming, a resear...
"A new NASA-funded study finds that predicted increases in precipitation due to warmer air temperatures from greenhouse gas emissions may actually inc...
"Scientists say a dramatic rise in the ocean temperature led to unprecedented deaths of birds and fish this summer all along the coast from central Ca...
"An unexpected decline in puffin numbers on one of their most successful breeding colonies has raised fears that the birds are the victims of a North ...
"Now new research into that tar residue seems to show that such seeps are influenced by ocean temperatures, and therefore by the very global warming t...
"An unusually large number of tropical fish, as well as southern game fish such as cobia, black and red drum, even tarpon, have been reported in Rhode...
"Warm ocean currents generated by La Nina have delivered a rare, colourful visitor to New Zealand waters."
"Warmer sea temperatures are linked to the severity of a coral disease, according to a study on Australia's Great Barrier Reef that offers a dire warn...
"A team of Canadian scientists has determined that warmer, wetter weather in the Canadian Arctic could create problems for nesting seabirds."
"Three decades have passed since the movie Jaws sent terrified bathers scrambling out of the ocean. But as any beach lifeguard knows, there's still no...
"Scientists have warned that increasingly powerful ’supertyphoons’ will strike Japan if global warming continues to affect weather patterns in the wes...
"A 'dead zone' of oxygen-poor water has appeared off the Oregon coast for the fifth year in a row, and reports of crab and fish dying off Washington's...
"La Niña's influence on the world means average global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory."
"As a Pacific island destination, Lateu struggles to sell itself. A typhoon wiped away its only beach a few years ago and today a handful of squalid t...
"Some grim evidence of the effects of climate change are emerging in Canada's far north. Scientists are reporting more cases of cannibalism among pola...
"Halfway around the world, the president of Kiribati, a Pacific nation of low-lying islands, said last month that his country is exploring ways to mov...
"Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings ma...
"The analysis by climatologist Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shows for the first time that major storms spinning in both ...
"Global warming may create 'dead zones' in the ocean that would be devoid of fish and seafood and endure for up to two millennia, according to a study...
"Warmer seas and a record hurricane season in 2005 have devastated more than half of the coral reefs in the Caribbean."
"A new study says predicted increases in precipitation due to warmer air temperatures may actually increase sea ice volume in the Antarctic's Southern...
"A new U.S. study said that the global warming may decrease the number of hurricanes that landfall in the United States, media reported Wednesday."
"For more than 160 years, the fate of British explorer John Franklin and his men has remained locked in the frozen Arctic, but warming temperatures ar...
"Operators of a temporary ice road used to truck supplies to remote mines in the Canadian Arctic are studying alternatives to keep traffic moving as w...
"The reason: an international race for oil, fish, diamonds and shipping routes, accelerated by the impact of global warming on Earth's frozen north."
"Even the deepest, darkest reaches of the Antarctic abyss are feeling the heat, according to new results presented at the climate change congress in C...
"This winter a 50-foot-wide strip of Roger Middleditch’s sugar-beet field fell into the North Sea, his rich East Anglian lands reduced by a large frac...
"Antarctica's massive coastal glaciers are quickly melting into the sea as the oceans around the continent grow warmer - and the pace of ice loss is s...
"Global warming is making the sea more salty, according to new research that demonstrates the massive shifts in natural systems triggered by climate c...
"Worrying signs that warmer seawater combined with a possible change in the ocean’s acid balance may be curtailing the growth of an important reef-bui...
"As the year's first hurricane spins across the Atlantic, research from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration suggests that global ...
"A new study has shown that Australia's critically endangered grey nurse shark could benefit from global warming."
"The debate over whether global warming affects hurricanes may be running into some unexpected turbulence."
"Tasmanian scientists are concerned a microscopic marine snail species found in the Southern Ocean may soon die out due to climate change."
"A blood-orange blob the size of a small refrigerator emerged from the dark waters, its venomous tentacles trapped in a fishing net."
"Contrary to popular belief, lemmings or small rodents, usually found in or near the Arctic do not commit mass suicide by leaping off of cliffs into t...
"Even if the world is successful in cutting carbon emissions in the future, California needs to start preparing for rising sea levels, hotter weather ...
"Sheikh Alauddin, like hundreds of other residents living on West Bengal's Moushuni island, has never heard the term 'global warming.' But he is livin...
"The new El Niño phenomenon developing in the Pacific Ocean, which is threatening extreme weather for many parts of the globe, could be a result of gl...
"Arctic storms could worsen because of global warming in a threat to possible new businesses such as oil and gas exploration, fisheries or shipping, a...
"Dozens of popular fish types, including grouper and barracuda, live near reefs. They accumulate the toxic chemical in their bodies from eating smalle...
"Countries gathered under an international accord on maritime pollution have warned against offbeat experiments to tackle climate change by sowing the...
"The latest bizarre finds have surfaced from the surreal world of the deep ocean south of Tasmania, and with them comes a warning."
"The scientists say that rising temperatures caused by greenhouse gases are increasing humidity, which in turn amplifies the temperature rise."
"More than 370 penguins that mysteriously washed up on Brazil's equatorial beaches were flown south on an Air Force jet and released closer to the fri...
"Hundreds of dead or dying purple sea urchins washed up into the Little Corona Marine Life Refuge tide pools in recent days, a phenomenon some officia...
"Figures from the National Tidal Center show sea levels along Western Australia's coast are rising at a rate double that of the world average."
"At least since 2003, and especially after hurricane Katrina hit, the White House has broadly attempted to control which climate scientists could spea...
"While the overwhelming bulk of those deaths took place in the world's poorest countries, the health fallout from climate change is also already claim...
"El Niño, a Pacific Ocean warming that has contributed to record-breaking snows across the U.S., will continue to affect the weather even as it steadi...
"Smoke spreading across the sky from intense wildfires in North America could act temporarily to blunt the effect of global warming in the Arctic, cli...
"New Zealand scientists have confirmed a large part of Antarctica's ice sheet disappeared in the past, Radio New Zealand reported on Tuesday."
"Japanese scientists displayed yesterday the oldest samples of ice yet retrieved, which promise to reveal invaluable data about the Earth’s climate a ...
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