Climate Change

Antarctic ice, long thought to be disappearing more slowly than that of the Arctic or even growing slightly, has been sneakily melting from underneath, a new study shows...
The National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA) has come out with its annual billion-dollar-disaster summary for 2012 and found it to be the second-costliest year for di...
Hidden, low-undergrowth fires are taking a bigger toll on the southern Amazon jungle than logging, NASA has determined with an innovative use of satellite data that has yielded the...
Diaphanous, ephemeral, the clouds of summer sunsets that usually arrive in June are early this year, and some researchers believe that may be fueled by climate change...
The sprawling land mass that is Antarctica—under all that ice, that is—has been unveiled, at least digitally...
With prospectors set to descend upon the Arctic faster than its ice is melting, Canada took the helm of the Arctic Council on May 15 as Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq became the fi...
The Arctic Ocean is heating up, its ice and permafrost are melting, and now … its ocean is acidifying...
The human race, indigenous and non-indigenous alike, is about to cross a threshold, though it is not one of evolution and is nothing to brag about, scientists say...
What is the true cost of overpopulation on the environment?...

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