climate change
A study conducted by the universities of Exeter and Oxford has found that climate change is causing crop pests to spread into areas that were previously too cold for them.
According to the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), climate change could cause sea levels to rise by up to three feet by 2100, creating potential disaster areas in some of the world's most densely populated cities including (but not limited to): New York, Miami, New Orleans, London, Shanghai, Venice and Sydney.
If it's not one thing, it's another. Scientists have now pinpointed another cause of global warming: earthquakes that that shake up the seabed.
Santa's going to need a bathing suit. The North Pole just isn't the wintery retreat it once used to be, and thanks to higher temperatures there's a giant lake in the middle of it now.
They're cute, cuddly, and can remind us that there's still some semblance of innocence left in the world, but baby seals are facing a new challenge that has nothing to do with clubbing that could adversely affect future seal populations.
What if I was to tell you that there's a time bomb somewhere in the world that could cause up to $60 trillion in worldwide damages - that's just about the size of the entire 2012 world economy. In other words, there's a huge problem that hasn't been acknowledged.
Outdoor air pollution caused by humans is currently responsible for over two million deaths per year, according to a new study, highlighting the effects of humans and downplaying the role of natural climate change.
From Hurricane Katrina to Hurricane Sandy, Americans across the nation have experienced just how catastrophic Mother Nature's largest and most destructive storms can be. However, it may only get worst as a new study suggests that not only will hurricanes and tropical storms intensify this century, but they will occur more frequently due to climate change.
If you think the last decade was either too hot or too cold, turns out you're right. A new U.N. report carried out by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on the global climate from 2001 to 2010 states that more temperature records were broken in the last decade than any other time in recorded history.
If current climate change trends continue, Southern California could be seeing significantly less snowfall by the end of the century, a new UCLA study asserts. If left unchecked, Los Angeles-area mountains will be receiving 30 to 40 percent less snow by midcentury, and up to two-thirds less snow by 2100 than in the years leading up to 2000.
Analysts are reporting that the policy conversation surrounding climate change is slowly shifting from how we can lower our CO2 emissions, to how we can adapt to the changing weather patterns.
Antarctic ice shelves are diminishing from the bottom up due to warm ocean water, and not from huge chunks breaking off into the ocean, says a new University of California Irvine (UCI) study.
Some of our world's most traveled waterways are also some of the deadliest, racking up a number of shipwrecks that will only increase as climate change causes weather to take a turn for the worse, a new study says.
Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest may capture most of the headlines, but NASA scientists have found a previously-undiscovered killer lurking under the tree tops: understory fires. The extent of damage caused by these fires is so great that it has destroyed more of the Amazon in recent years than deforestation.
British Antarctica Survey scientists have stripped away Antarctica's icy gown, revealing the mysterious frost-filled frontier naked for the first time. The new geographical map, dubbed Bedmap2, sheds new light on a continent rarely visited even today, and provides environmental engineers with a roadmap of the Antarctic ice sheet.
