Scientists see new global warming threat
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New research is raising concerns that global warming may be triggering a self-perpetuating climate time bomb trapped in once-frozen permafrost.
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LONDON, Feb 14 (IPS) - In the morass of statistics on global warming,  consider just the broad figures of the story so far, and the  story that leading scientists would like to see unfold.
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland  - A new movie showing young polar bears and walruses struggling toward adulthood in a melting Arctic puts a pair of charismatic faces on the global warming threat.
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By Kates, Robert W  Most readers of Environment appreciate that global warming is an extraordinary risk.
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An unexplained and unprecedented rise in carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere two years running has raised fears that the world may be on the brink of runaway global warming.
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A Bush administration report suggests that evidence of global warming has begun to affect animal and plant populations in visible ways, and that rising temperatures in North America are due in part to human activity.
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The Government&#39;s chief scientist has warned the world must act fast to combat global warming or face the dire consequences. Professor Sir David King said climate change cannot be avoided and that &quot;action is affordable, inaction is not&quot;.
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A rise of 1 degree Celsius could be enough to trigger 'dangerous' warming, scientists warn.
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Global warming has emerged as a top New York environmental issue, with accumulated scientific data showing a hotter atmosphere and projecting more radical changes over the next century from automobile and power plant emissions, according to a report issued Wednesday.
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A new non-partisan study shows global warming is happening faster than anyone expected with effects in our own backyards. Biologist Doctor Camille Parmesan studies how living creatures respond to environmental
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Climate scientists are predicting the effects of global warming on the nation's most geographically diverse state, and they say the landscape of California could be drastically different by the end of this century, if not sooner.
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A rise in global temperatures could result in devastating effects in just over 20 years time, a study warns.
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Scientists try to figure out how far off the next ice age is.
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The harmful effects of global warming on daily life are already showing up, and within a couple of decades hundreds of millions of people won't have enough water, top scientists will say next month at a meeting in Belgium.
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Ecologists fear that global warming will make protected landscapes  inhospitable to prized species.
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There is no longer any reasonable doubt that human activities are warming the planet at a dangerous rate, according to a new worldwide assessment of climate science released today by the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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An unexplained jump in greenhouse gases since 2002 might herald a catastrophic acceleration of global warming if it becomes a trend, scientists said on Monday.