Global Warming News

Write a regular column on sustainability and it's natural to discuss climate-change facts and issues from time to time.

BEIJING: China will not pay for CO2 emissions by its airlines on flights within Europe, a top civil aviation official reportedly said after the European Commission warned eight Chinese firms face fines for nonpayment.

A team of citizen scientists backed by the University of Queensland have analysed 20 years of peer-reviewed literature on climate change, showing 97 per cent of papers endorse the position that humans are contributing to climate change.

One week ago, the Obama administration launched its National Strategy for the Arctic Region , outlining the government's strategic priorities over the next 10 years.

This map shows methane measurements Ira Leifer took as he drove in his RV around the Los Angeles basin.

The big threat to Florida's future that elected leaders aren't talking about: the average amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Antony is an automotive obsessive: Whether it drives, sits there looking pretty or intrigues from afar, he'll talk and write about it.

According to an email obtained by Media Matters, Bill Sammon imposed an order on Fox News journalists to cast doubt on climate change.

Fresh off his resignation from NASA, leading climate scientist James Hansen is making the rounds this week, warning media and lawmakers that not only are we heading for a "tremendously chaotic" climate, but if we dig up and burn Canadian tar sands, the climate crisis will be rendered "unsolvable." Hansen told a a panel of U.K. lawmakers , the ... (more)

Suggestions that global warming has stalled are a "diversionary tactic" from "deniers" who want the public to be confused over climate change, according to the world's best-known climate scientist.

Securities of fossil fuels firms, as an economic sector, may soon be on the decline.

For many years, climate change has displaced millions in the developing world - and now America is seeing its first climate refugees .

A long, long time ago I postulated that "Global Warming" is more likely due to dynamics in the Earth's crust than human produced CO2.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., June 7, 2011 -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a speech on May 23 in Washington, D.C., in which he said, "I envision an Israel that can dedicate even more of its creative and scientific talents to help solve some of the great challenges of the day, foremost of which is finding a clean and affordable substitute ... (more)

Moniz, 68, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, replaces Steven Chu, who served as energy secretary in President Barack Obama 's first term.

Gazette columnist Jennifer Hemmingsen has written that global warming is right now a danger to the United States and steps need to be taken now to mitigate this danger.

US Army Corps of Engineers tours flooded areas in Burlington, North Dakota in 2011.

In Southern California, scientists knew the missing methane had to be coming from somewhere.

The people of Newtok, on the west coast of Alaska and about 400 miles south of the Bering Strait that separates the state from Russia, are living a slow-motion disaster that will end, very possibly within the next five years, with the entire village being washed away.

Ninety-seven percent of scientists say global warming is mainly man-made but a wide public belief that experts are divided is making it harder to gain support for policies to curb climate change, an international study showed on Thursday.