NOAA Chief Urges Creating National Climate Service

With concerns about global warming rising along with the planet's temperature, the head of the federal agency in change of weather research and forecasting is proposing creation of a new National Climate Service. Read more »

Huge Study Documents Changes From Climate Warming

A landmark new climate study released today reports that global warming is already changing the life cycles of thousands of animals and plants — as well as hundreds of physical systems — worldwide. Read more »

Major Arctic Sea Ice Melt Is Expected This Summer

The Arctic will remain on thinning ice, and climate warming is expected to begin affecting the Antarctic also, scientists said Friday. "The long-term prognosis is not very optimistic," atmospheric scientist Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University said... Read more »

Scientist Says New Zealand's Biggest Glacier Shrinking

New Zealand's biggest glacier is melting at its fastest pace in recent history, a scientist said Thursday. The Tasman Glacier on South Island was 18 miles long in 1990, with virtually no lake at its front edge... Read more »

Environmental Perils of Artificial Snow

As Alpine resorts suffer due to climate, some have installed snow cannons, but they can cause damage as well. Are warm weather activities the answer? Read more »

Scientist Study Arctic Haze For Clues To Rapid Melting

Visitors to Alaska often marvel at the crisp, clear air. But the truth is, the skies above the Arctic Circle work like a giant lint trap during late winter and early spring, catching all sorts of pollutants swirling around the globe. Read more »

Analyzing Ancient Ice in the Tropics Before it Melts

For 5,000 years, great tongues of ice have spread over the 3-mile-high slopes of Puncak Jaya, in the most remote reaches of this remote tropical island. Now those glaciers are melting, and Lonnie Thompson must get there before they're gone. Read more »

2008: The Year the Wold Will Cool Down (?)

The world will experience global cooling this year, according a leading climate scientist. The head of the World Meteorological Organisation said La Nina - the weather phenomenon which is cooling the Pacific - is likely to trigger a small drop in average global temperatures compared with last year. Read more »

Environmentalists warn time running out to protect Brittish Columbia coastal rain forest

Environmental groups say the B.C. government is in danger of missing its own deadline for putting a conservation plan in place for the Great Bear Rainforest. Read more »

AP: Global Warming Rushes Timing Of Spring

The capital's famous cherry trees are primed to burst out in a perfect pink peak about the end of this month. Thirty years ago, the trees usually waited to bloom till around April 5. In central California, the first of the field skipper sachem, a drab little butterfly, was fluttering about on March 12... Read more »

Arctic Sea Ice Builds, But Vulnerable

Critical Arctic sea ice this winter made a tenuous partial recovery from last summer's record melt, federal scientists said Tuesday. But that's an illusion, like a Hollywood movie set, scientist Walter Meier of the National Snow and Ice Data Center said. The ice is very thin and vulnerable to heavy melting again this summer. Read more »

Climate Change Debate Coins New Jargon

To understand the climate-change debate, it helps to understand the jargon, a mixture of diplomatese, pundit-speak and techno-talk. Here are some terms used at meetings on global warming. Read more »

2006-2007 "Climatological Winter" Summary

Overall...Warmer and drier than normal conditions prevailed through the three month period (December - February)...But with a considerable and distinct drop in daily average temperatures noted in the second half. Read more »

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