Global Warming

ROME (Reuters) - Warming seas and excavations within the Venice lagoon mean the exceptionally high flood waters in the city this week are also saltier, posing an extra threat to its architectural treasures. When the water recedes from the cobbled lanes, mar…

Image copyrightGetty Images With homes under water in South Yorkshire, near record flooding in Venice, and burgeoning wildfires in Australia, many people are asking if and how climate change is connected to these extreme weather events. What can we say abo…

We dont know exactly how this will play out, but it seems safe to say that if Trump stays in office, a lot more Americans will die as a result of his anti-environmental policies than the total number who are murdered, let alone murdered by the immigrants Trum…

Children born today will face a lifetime of climate change-related health problems, one of the world's oldest and most prestigious medical journals warns in a report released yesterday. The Lancet's "Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change"…

A typical two-person, very wealthy household one with more than $1 million in investments in addition to a home and personal property produces roughly 129 tons of planet-warming carbon dioxide per year, or about ten times the global average, according to a te…

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Extreme floods in Venice, fires in Australia and even an outbreak of plague in China have been attributed to climate change this week, while researchers have warned that global warming could saddle future generations with life-long illne…

The Arctic's oldest, most robust sea ice has devolved into a pathetic shell of its once-grand self. A new two-minute video from the American Geophysical Union, a leading earth sciences organization, depicts the dramatic shrinking of the toughest Arctic sea i…

Human-induced climate change has origins far earlier than commonly assumed, according to a study published in the journal Science. Archeological evidence collected around the world suggests human activity began warming the global climate about 5,000 years ag…

Chris McNeil has journeyed to Alaska's sprawling Taku Glacier at least once a year for the last decade. At 259 square miles, it's larger than Chicago. "You can see across this thing for days," said McNeil, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey. For de…

NASA scientists, who once engineered spaceships that allowed humans to explore the dusty moon, have also provided evidence, for decades, that humans are unequivocally warming Earth. This warming ushered in by the highest atmospheric concentrations of heat-tr…