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- Global Warming and Warm Weather: Connected?
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It was expected to reach into the 70s today in New York City. Cherry blossoms were blooming in Washington, D.C. Is there a connection between the January heat wave that is sweeping the East Coast and man-made global warming?
- March in January! Or Is It Mayday?
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Never has good weather felt so bad. Never have flowers inspired so much fear. Never has the warm caress of a sunbeam seemed so ominous. The weather is sublime, its glorious, its the end of the world.
- Cities, Towns Step Up Global Warming Fight
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Frustrated with the federal response to global warming, hundreds of cities, suburbs, and rural communities across the United States are taking bold steps to slash their energy consumption and reduce emissions of the pollutants that cause climate change.
- Report: Big Money Confusing Public on Global Warming
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A new report details what it calls an enormously successful disinformation campaign by ExxonMobil that used tobacco-industry tactics to fund groups who cast doubts and deceive the public on the scientific consensus regarding global warming.
- Australia Warming Faster Than World
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The seriousness of Australia's environmental problems was underlined Wednesday with the release of data showing that the country appears to be experiencing the effects of global warming more deeply than other parts of the world.
- Norway Will Pay for Travel Pollution
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Norway will offset the greenhouse gases caused by state employees flights abroad by buying emissions quotas to help combat global warming. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg announced the plan in the annual New Years address to the nation.
- Ancient Ice Shelf Breaks Free from Canadian Arctic
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A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canadas Arctic, scientists said.
- U.S. Wants Polar Bears on Endangered List
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The Bush administration has decided to propose listing the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, putting the U.S. government on record as saying that global warming could drive one of the worlds most recognizable animals out of existence.
- And the Color of the Year Is ...
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I know that you should never generalize about global warming from your own weather, but as a longtime resident of Washington, D.C., it's hard not to, considering that it's been so balmy this winter season I'm half expecting the cherry blossoms to come out for Christmas.
- Boston Plans to Go Green on Large Building Projects
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Boston plans to amend its building code to require that all large-scale private construction be "green."
- Penguins Offer Evidence of Global Warming
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The first Adelie penguin chicks of the season -- black fluffballs small enough to hold in the hand -- started hatching this month, and the simple fact that there are more of them in the south and fewer of them further north is a sign of global warming, scientists say.
- An Inconvenient Truth DVD's Available for Teachers via Participate.Net
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Laurie David, a producer of An Inconvenient Truth, announced today that 50,000 DVDs of the acclaimed documentary will be donated on a first come, first serve basis to teachers across the country interested in using the film as a teaching tool in classrooms via www.participate.net.
- Polar Bear Population 'Falling Fast'
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Polar bears living in the arctic region are suffering dramatic population declines, conservation group WWF has claimed.
- PG&E to Let Customers Help with Global Warming
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Concerned about your contribution to global warming? Now you can clean up your mess. In what is believed to be the first such effort by a major utility in the United States, Pacific Gas & Electric won approval Thursday to launch a program that will tell customers house by house and business by business how much carbon dioxide they emit every month, and then allow them to offset it to become carbon neutral.
- Need a Kleenex? You Won't Find One at Rice University
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If youre looking for a Kleenex on the Rice University campus in the near future, youll be out of luck.
- Oceans May Rise Over 4 1/2 Feet by 2100
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The worlds oceans may rise up to 140 cms (4 ft 7 in) by 2100 due to global warming, a faster than expected increase that could threaten low-lying coasts from Florida to Bangladesh, a researcher said on Thursday.
- Britain Sets Sights on "Zero Carbon" Homes
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Britain set out plans on Wednesday to help tackle global warming by making all new housing zero carbon within a decade.
- 2006: Drought, Floods, and Broken Records
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The Australian Alps had the thinnest and shortest snow season since at least 1982. Planet Earth had its sixth hottest year on record and a deluge of severe record-breaking weather, according to a new report.
- Wall Street Eyes Heart of Darkness: Global Warming
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The topic of the conference was climate change and the rhetoric was sobering, haunted by scientific projections of a roasted world for our children and a looming environmental disaster of Biblical proportions.
- 2006 Warmest Year in Netherlands in 300 Years
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DE BILT, Netherlands - This year is on track to be the warmest in the Netherlands since temperatures were first measured in 1706, the Dutch meteorological institute KNMI said on Tuesday, linking the record with global warming.
