Climate Change

Reading assessments of the recent Durban conference by leading climate wonks, many of them argue that the issue of a binding treaty — to eventually take the place of the Kyoto Protocol — must be vie...

      By Medha Chandra. Endosulfan. Chlorpyrifos. Chlorothalonil. Not words one would associate with the crisp, cold air and water of the Arctic region. Butnew research shows that these...

     By Eric Pfeiffer Russian scientists have discovered hundreds of plumes of methane gas, some 1,000 meters in diameter, bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean. Scientists are concerned th...

 By Andreas Spath As the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP 17) to the United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change starts in the South African Indian Ocean port city of Durban today, more A-l...

  BY SETH BORENSTEIN WASHINGTON -- For a world already weary of weather catastrophes, the latest warning from top climate scientists paints a grim future: More floods, more heat waves, more droughts and gr...

  By Phil Borges As I approached Tibet''s capital, Lhasa, the highway divided. What I remembered as a rough two-lane road that ran through town and hosted an occasional vehicle was now a six-lane d...

  By Andrew Burmon The melting of Arctic ice first made the Northwest Passage passable for a cruise ship in 1984, creating an opportunity for outfitters to cater to those eager to sail through a Passage so...

  Despite increased urbanization and more cars on the road than ever before, the air quality in most of the U.S. better than it was just a few decades ago. Much of this improvement can be attributed to the...

By Michael McAuliff WASHINGTON -- Less than an hour after passing the so-called Protect Life Act to guard the unborn, the House of Representatives passed a bill that the EPA warns will kill thousands of people ...

When you say the term “ozone layer,” most people will claim to be familiar with the concept, but likely have some difficulty in giving any details on what exactly it is. The ozone layer is a portion of the Eart...