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A controversial e-mail message buried by the Bush administration because of its conclusions on global warming surfaced Tuesday, nearly two years after it was first sent to the White House and never opened.
President Barack Obama's so-called green team has undergone a growth spurt.
Global warming is threatening America's national parks. But there is no consensus about how to prevent the harm.
Reversing global warming will cost up to $185 billion (euro130 billion) a year before 2020 and require more action by world governments than currently pledged, an international environmental analysis group said Thursday.
University of Colorado researchers say global warming increases the chances that the Colorado River system's reservoirs could be depleted by mid-century.
The world's biggest polluters made progress on a global deal to finance efforts to fight global warming and help poor countries cope with it, the French hosts of climate talks said Tuesday.
A tiny mammal that can't handle warm weather could become the first animal in the lower 48 states to get Endangered Species Act protection primarily because of climate change.
The American pika — a short-legged, hamster-sized fur ball that huddles in high mountain slopes — isn't built for long-distance travel.
The Senate has endorsed using revenues from controversial cap-and-trade auctions of permits for emitting greenhouse gases to help consumers pay higher gasoline and electricity prices.
The Environmental Protection Agency has taken the first step on the long road to regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
Russia will likely see more forest fires, droughts and floods in the coming century due to global warming, and policy makers need to prepare for large-scale change, scientists warned in a report released Wednesday.
Australia may be getting a glimpse of its globally warmed future.
When it comes to global warming, the canary in the coal mine isn't a canary at all. It's a purple finch.
The federal government on Friday settled a lawsuit that accused two U.S. agencies of financing energy projects overseas without considering their impacts on global warming.
Former Vice President Al Gore presented lawmakers on Wednesday with a new inconvenient truth: Action on global warming cannot wait until the economy recovers.
The Bush administration is trying to make sure in its final days that federal air pollution regulations will not be used to control the gases blamed for global warming.
When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, global warming was a slow-moving environmental problem that was easy to ignore. Now it is a ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can't avoid.
The head of a House global warming panel says Congress should grant a waiver to allow California and other states to impose stricter emission rules than the federal standard.
Democrats are fighting over control of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the outcome could affect President-elect Obama's efforts to limit the heat-trapping gases blamed for global warming.
The economic free fall gripping the nation may bring down one of the main environmental objectives: capping the greenhouse gases that are blamed for global warming.
With the presidential election less than a month away and the economy reeling, House Democratic leaders on Tuesday unveiled a proposal to reduce the gases blamed for global warming from power plants, transportation and factories by 80 percent come 2050.
Voluntary pollution-reduction programs touted by the Bush administration as part of the solution to global warming have "limited potential" to reduce greenhouse gases, according to an internal government watchdog.
Government scientists detailed a rising death toll from heat waves, wildfires, disease and smog caused by global warming in an analysis the White House buried so it could avoid regulating greenhouse gases.
Global warming could worsen smog and stretch what typically is a summer pollution problem into the spring and fall, government scientists predicted Thursday.
A federal appeals court refused Thursday to make a resistant Bush administration speed up a decision on whether greenhouse gases and global warming threaten public health and welfare.
After Eric left for the poles, the United States declared the odds of a binding agreement on global warming at Copenhagen on par with the odds of peace in the Middle East or resolution to College football's Bowl Championship Series controversy.
CRU has apparently been hacked "hundreds of files released"An unknown person put postings on some climate skeptic websites that advertised an FTP file on a Russian FTP server, here is the message that was placed on the Air Vent today: We feel that climate science is, in the current situation, too important to be kept under wraps.
On Thinner Ice: Melting Glaciers Spell Looming Disaster for WorldGlobal warming is melting 18,000 Himalayan glaciers, the largest concentration of glaciers outside the polar ice sheets. Their melting spells trouble for not only 2 billion Asians but the whole world.
Breaking News Story: CRU has apparently been hacked – hundreds of files releasedThe details on this are still sketchy, we'll probably never know what went on. But it appears that University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit has been hacked and many many files have been released by the hacker or person unknown.
Unforeseen climate 'crisis' - Washington TimesA climate crisis of worldwide proportions is unfolding right before our eyes, and not even the most powerful world leaders can do anything to stop it.
Hackers target leading climate research unitThe e-mail system of one of the world's leading climate research units has been breached by hackers. E-mails reportedly from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU), including personal exchanges, appeared on the internet on Thursday.
Global warming a growing threat to Arctic reindeer JARFJORD — On Norway's border with Russia, the consequences of climate change are affecting the reindeer population as rising temperatures hit food stocks and industry growth eats into vital grazing land.
Hadley CRU hacked with release of hundreds of docs and emailsI've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline.
Climate Scientists???Global Warming scientists have been hacked. Stay tuned to find out what they're really all about. See also
Revenge of the Climate LaymenA great story about the bon vivant of climate science, Steve McIntyre.
Global warming causes increase in AIDS says UN OfficialSuneeta Mukherjee, country representative of the United Nations Food Population Fund (UNFPA), said women in the Philippines are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change in the country.
British PM Brown: UK faces a climate catastrophe of floods, droughts and killer heatwavesUK PM Gordon Brown warns that Copenhagen negotiators have 50 days to save the world from global warming and break the "impasse", telling the Major Economies Forum in London there was "no plan B".
New Statesman Leader on Copenhagen: World leaders need to become green heroes too"heroes ...who lead from the bottom up, corralling support for their cause by being passionate, committed and practically engaged. If the politicians can only delay and equivocate, we must take matters into our own hands."
U.S. and China reach accord on data collectionThe United States and China have agreed to cooperate on developing an inventory of China's greenhouse gas emissions, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday, an initiative that appears be a response to criticism of Beijing's data collection.
Slippery Definitions of Green-Collar JobsIn the new, greener economy, some old jobs have simply been rebranded. A home builder who installs solar panels is suddenly green. So is the engineer who worked for the phone company and now installs parts of a smart grid.
Inhofe: 2009 is Year of the SkepticInhofe's speech to the Environment and Public Works Committtee. One thing I'll say about Inhofe: he does not quit.
Here, there are many ways to fail. Frostbite, injury from a fall, broken gear, not making enough miles, snow blindness, altitude sickness... To succeed requires an equally long list of skills and knowledge.
Sri Lanka Minister on First World "Climate Nazism, Climate Racism and Climate Terrorism"Sri Lanka Minister: "So in Copenhagen, developing countries will have a moral high ground... developed countries only have brute force and concepts like Climate Nazism, Climate Racism and Climate Terrorism. "
Dr Lovelock: "Climate war could kill nearly all of us, leaving survivors in the Stone Age"Lovelock: "We have enjoyed 12,000 years of climate peace since the last shift from a glacial age to an interglacial one. Before long, we may face planet-wide devastation worse even than unrestricted nuclear war ..."
Ollie North Launches New War Against 'Cap And Tax,' 'Bird Eating Machines,' And The 'Myth Of Global Warming'Lt. Col.
Experts: GHG pollution 50% greater than thought, livestock give over 51% of GHGs pa World Bank Group environmentalists have re-examined greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution due to methanogenic livestock - total GHG pollution is 50% greater than thought previously and livestock contribute over 51% of total.
Australians Face Reality On Sea-Level Rise - plus 1.1 meters means 2 million Oz refugees Official Australian report based on conservative IPCC projections : with a sea-level rise of 1.1 meters about two million Australians would become refugees and have to leave their homes and the places they love.
Al Gore: Earth's Interior 'Extremely Hot, Several Million Degrees' Last Thursday, NBC "Tonight Show" viewers got a perfect example of how the Nobel Laureate basically makes things up, and that his poor grades in college were quite an indicator of just how little he understands about science.
Our honored Nobel winner, the same guy that touts global warming as religion claims that the center of the earth, well not really the center, simply kilometers down, is several million degrees!
Senate to Put Off Climate Bill Until Spring Senate Democratic leaders said Tuesday they would put off debate on a big climate-change bill until spring, in a sign of weakening political will to tackle a long-term environmental issue at a time of high unemployment and economic uncertainty.
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