Global Warming News

Fossil fuels may be doing an even more efficient job of warming the planet than we thought.

There is no evidence to support claims that environmental records were manipulated to support theories on climate change, the U.S. EPA announced.

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's challenge to the federal government's conclusion that greenhouse gases are dangerous to people has failed on the regulatory front but remains alive in court.

A new report by 300 scientists has flagged the past decade as the hottest on record and compiled 10 "unmistakable" indicators that the world is getting warmer.

In the wake of last week's defeat of cap and trade, the predictable narrative offered by bloggers and commentators has been to blame the failure on industry, skeptics, and Republicans.

The "risk of rapid or extreme warming are larger than what you would get by reading the IPCC" reports, he says.

Increasing the ratio of black carbon to sulfate in the atmosphere increases climate warming, suggests a study conducted by a University of Iowa professor and his colleagues and published in the July 25 issue of the journal Nature Geoscience .

International scientists have injected fresh evidence into the debate over global warming, saying that climate change is "undeniable" and shows clear signs of "human fingerprints" in the first major piece of research since the "Climategate" controversy.

A massive simulation of soot's climate effects finds that basic pollution controls could put a brake on global warming, erasing in a decade most of the last century's temperature change.

Californians are split between the Democratic and Republican candidates in the contests for governor and U.S. Senate, with a large number of voters still undecided in both races, according to a poll released Wednesday.

GREENPEACE has made fresh allegations that units of Indonesian paper and palm oil giant Sinar Mas are logging in high conservation-value forests including habitats of endangered orangutans.

In this Feb. 7, 1969, file photo, workmen using pitchforks, rakes and shovels attempt to clean up oil-soaked straw from the beach at Santa Barbara Harbor, Calif.

The Reid energy bill abandons cap-and-trade, dooming the cause. Future historians will pinpoint Democratic Sen.

Every time governments fail to take serious steps on climate change, it seems the parlor game of predicting what our warmer world will look like heats up.

Despite their tiny size, plant plankton found in the world's oceans are crucial to much of life on Earth.

Scientists from around the world are providing even more evidence of global warming, one day after President Barack Obama renewed his call for climate legislation.

A Pakistani boy cools off as temperatures reached 51C in a heatwave last month. Photograph: MK Chaudhry/EPA Global temperatures in the first half of the year were the hottest since records began more than a century ago, according to two of the world's leading climate research centres.

Global warming is turning 35! Not only has the current spate of global warming been going on for about 35 years now, but also the term "global warming" will have its 35th anniversary next week.

Pat Sajak, TV game show host and former TV weatherman, has a good idea about global warming enthusiasts : Manmade global warming, like so many other social and economic issues, has become hopelessly politicized.

Without 'cap and trade,' Senate majority leader Harry Reid said Tuesday the narrower energy bill has a better shot at overcoming GOP opposition.