Global climate change News

Boston - Scientists meeting at this week’s annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston have warned that extreme weather events like Hurricane Sandy and the Texas drought are here to stay.

A record-breaking heatwave put Australians on alert last week. Heatwaves may not be unusual in Australia during the summer months, but the current extreme heat is more widespread than normal. It has now been declared "catastrophic."

Al Gore has raked in millions on what was Global Warming, and is now known simply as Global Climate Change. James Lovelock, the god-father of global-warming however, has a different view.

The wildlife series Frozen Planet starring David Attenborough has dropped the seventh episode from its sales package to countries outside the UK.

Two teams of scientists studying Arabidopsis thaliana, a common European plant, found flexible genes that respond to climate changes, giving the plant a better chance of surviving and reproducing, but found limits to this flexibility strategy also.

Cape Town - The Africa Centre for Climate and Earth Systems Science will provide regional decision-makers with reliable climate information, enabling them to balance developmental needs with environmental issues.

While some continue to blame SUV's, and coal powered electric generation plants first for global warming, and now for climate change, is it possible the sun can be to blame? Dr. Charlie Perry thinks so.

Global climate changes over the next twenty years could strain the United States military according to a report delivered to Congress on Wednesday.

Spring in the Rockies begins when the snowpack melts. But with the advent of global climate change, the snow is gone sooner. Research conducted on the region’s wildflowers shows some plants are blooming less because of it.

Is global dimming counteracting the impact that global warming is having/ Has the pollution we spew into the air daily working to keep the temperature from rising. This may be the case and if so the problems we face are even more complicated.