Global Warming News

Much of Bangkok could flood within the next two decades if global warming stays on its current trajectory, as sea levels rise and cyclones intensify, the World Bank said in a new report on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON -- The National Mall has monuments to heroism, freedom and sacrifice.

There is virtually no doubt that global warming exists. Aside from a few cranks and those heavily invested in the fossil fuel industry, the scientific consensus is that the Earth's climate is changing, and changing faster than ever before.

A "cold snap" 116 million years ago triggered a similar marine ecosystem crisis to those witnessed in the past as a result of global warming, according to research published today in Nature Geoscience .

Already travelling at super-hurricane speeds, winds on Venus have accelerated by an astonishing one-third over the past six years, the European Space Agency reported on Tuesday.

Research confirms agreement among most climate scientists that we are altering the Earth's climate, mainly by burning fossil fuels.

Coal workers at the jointly-owned coking coal mines of BHP Billiton Ltd. and Mitsubishi Corp. have finally conceded to accept a new enterprise agreement, effectively ending a two-year mining clash.

Elijah Zarlin, who worked as a senior email writer at Obama campaign headquarters in 2008, was back in Chicago yesterday - in the First Precinct jail, following a peaceful sit-in in protest of the Keystone XL pipeline.

UC Davis professor Daniel Sperling, one of the nation's most influential transportation thinkers and policymakers, is the recipient of the 2013 Blue Planet Prize, sometime called the Nobel Prize for environmental science.

The Cuomo Administration deserves praise for new initiatives to promote tourism in New York State will be an economic and social boon, but the plan to develop three major casino gaming destinations in upstate is bad policy.

Photo by Reuters. Eleven cities, including San Francisco and Seattle, are moving towards divesting from fossil fuel companies.

Chinese congestion: The increasing number of cars in China means motor vehicles have become a significant source of air pollution and urban smog.

China's plan to set up markets to trade emissions will make it second only to Europe in efforts to put a price on pumping carbon into the atmosphere.

Here is the Australian Climate Commission's complex figure showing global warming resulting largely from the burning of fossil fuel; image ; Credit: Australian Climate Commission The Australians have suffered more than most from climate change problems, with fire and flood dominating their headline news annually.

I spent the first 20 years of my climate reporting focused on the buildup of human-generated greenhouse gases as a biogeophysical problem.

Your Monday green-car buzzkill is brought to you buy University of Michigan research professor John DeCicco, who says more electric vehicles won't do much to slow global warming if energy-production methods aren't addressed.

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Global warming skeptics have frequently pointed out that not too long ago scientists were warnings about the dangers of global cooling.

Few religious communities have gone as far in fighting climate change as a church in Queensland, Australia, which has 24 solar panels bolted to the roof in the shape of a Christian cross.

While the national government remains slow to deal with climate change , many cities have been moving ahead.