"The sea level rise taking place right now is quickly making extreme coastal floods more common, increasing risk for millions of people where they live and work. Sea level rise makes every single coastal storm flood higher," says lead author Benjamin ...

The Greenland ice sheet is melting quicker than anyone previously thought. A new estimate lowers the amount of heat necessary, and thus the time needed, to melt the Greenland ice sheet, ...

By Alex Sosnowski, Expert Senior Meteorologist Mar 16, 2012; 11:00 AM ET As the St. Patrick's Day storm pushes slowly inland from the West, there is the potential for an outbreak of violent thunderstorms and tornadoes over the Plains starting on...

But planned and managed migration will also be a key way of coping with coming climate pressures, expert say

SimCity, the iconic strategy game that gave rise to a generation of "Sims" games, is getting a 21st century makeover. With the real cities of the world increasingly on the front lines of climate change, SimCity will include a climate change component...

Ties to land are curbing migration and improving access to everything from loans to compensation for crop losses

Sebastian Copeland and Eric McNair-Landry at the South Pole. Credit: Sebastian Copeland.  On Nov. 5, 2011, a photographer, environmentalist and adventurer named Sebastian Cop...

Published: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 10:36 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) UZH Heli Bernina 2011 Thawing permafrost will have far-reaching ramifications for populated areas, infrastructure and ecosystems. A geographer...

In a strange echo of 2009's Climategate incident, documents stolen from the Heartland Institute last week were reported to reveal a climate-denialist strategy.

A male polar bear climbs precariously on the face of a cliff above the ocean in northern Novaya Zemlya, Russia, attempting to feed on seabird eggs. This bear was marooned on land and una...

One volunteer walks us through her day with Panda at the WWF-Canada Ottawa branch on National Sweater Day.

If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting someday will make the housing bubble of 2007 look like a lark. ...

Government works to coordinate climate response efforts as farmers suffer

Research shows northern forests in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba are drying up and shrinking from drought caused by climate change, while the eastern boreal forest is holding its own.

Published: Monday, January 30, 2012 - 11:34 in Earth & Climate Oceanographers have identified a series of ocean hotspots around the world generated by strengthening wind systems that have driven oceanic currents, including the East Australian Cur...

COMMENTARY By Geoff Grant   Here’s a Monday morning conversation starter for the casual sports fan: did global warming cause Sidney Crosby’s concussion? No, the Na...

But experts warn traditional knowledge alone will not be enough to cope with changing conditions

Sylvia Fallon, Senior Scientist, Washington, DC: A new study has documented a decline in songbird populations in Arizona as a result of climate change.  What gets less attention in this story is that this ...

While restored wetlands may look superficially similar—and the animal and insect populations may be the same—the plants take much longer to return to normal and establish the carbon resources in the soil that make for a healthy ecosystem. (Credit:...

Both new maize varieties and old ones are helping protect yields in the face of dryer conditions

Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C.: An important study published in Science last week shows that targeted measures to curb methane, black carbon, and carbon dioxide emissions would yield huge ...

In the movie "Austin Powers," the villain, Dr. Evil, demands that his henchmen find sharks with lasers on their heads in order to intimidate and kill his enemies. Based on a news story out of Australia today, I suspect that if the same movie were t...

Author of IPCC 'extreme weather' report is among those displaced by flooding

Andrew Wetzler, Director, Land & Wildlife Program, Chicago: Environment 360 reports: "A new study says that a warming climate is having a more profound effect on the world’s mountain vegetation than previously believed and ...

Rising, warming and increasingly acidic seas threaten the very survival of Pacific island countries. The retreat of glaciers and snowfields in the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau jeopardize these "water towers" on which 1 billion Asians depend for flows ...

Wild weather hits Latin AmericaSacramento BeeFor many witnessing the extreme weather in the region and around the world, the question that comes up again and again is whether climate change is playing a role. The response from experts: Probably. While ...

An international aid organization that has seen the worst of what war and climate change could do to man has come here to replace one of the most crucial things that such manmade and natural disasters strip human communities of—shelter.

Climate change in the Nepalese Himalayas means many glaciers are being eroded, leading to the production of large lakes that pose a future flood hazard.

“As a result of this research, we can now say unequivocally that the oxygen content of the ocean is sensitive to climate change, confirming the general cause for concern," says study co-author Eric Galbraith. (Credit: iStockphoto) MCGILL (CAN) — D...

Rapid rise in wildfires in large parts of Canada? Public release date: 16-Dec-2011[ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Tilo [email protected] Association of German Research Centres Ecologists show for the first time threshold va...