Change in Hardiness Map Causes Some Skepticism
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By Eric Olson  OMAHA, Neb. - Fred Jaeger doesn't care what the National Arbor Day Foundation says. He's not going to attempt planting magnolia trees on his land in a Utah mountain valley.   He'll stick with Canadian chokecherries and ash.
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Hurricane forecasters debate the usefulness of the &quot;skinny line&quot; in tracking maps, and look at more accurate alternatives.
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The notion that forests are declining across the tropics is not proven, a study argues, because data is unclear.
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Politicians in the nation's capital have been reluctant to set limits on the carbon dioxide pollution that is expected to warm the planet by 4 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit during the next century, citing uncertainty about the severity of the threat. But that uncertainty may have shrunk somewhat with the release last week of two scientific reports suggesting that global warming is not just a hypothetical possibility, but a real phenomenon that has already started transforming especially sensitive parts of the globe.
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Freezing temperatures early Sunday may have nipped fields and gardens in the central and eastern parts of Utah, but it probably was not the killer frost some had feared.
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Maps used to calculate flood danger in the U.S. rely on data that are decades out of date, according to a report that calls for a new national program to remap land levels.
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Higher temperatures, rapid precipitation shifts, and accelerated blooming and breeding patterns are changing the Southwest.
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Scientists find many regions on Earth that once had permanent frozen ground are now experiencing a thaw.
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By Rotenberg, James A ABSTRACT.- Established parks and nature reserves may be inadequate to preserve long-term biotic diversity, especially in tropical regions of Latin America where anthropogenic disturbance and land- conversion is an ongoing problem.
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Atlantic climate often shifts in October - good news for Florida but not for Caribbean.
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By Alyson Crean, Florida Keys Keynoter, Marathon  Feb. 28--It may have seemed a good idea at the time, but initiating a land-mapping for allotting building permits continues to hit snags.
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Rules covering work on listed buildings may have to be changed because of climate change, conservationists say.
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North American wildlife species  ranging from butterflies to red fox are scrambling to adapt to  Earth's rising temperatures and may not survive, according to a  study released on Monday.
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Depending on where you are, this is going to be a hotter, wetter, drier, windier, calmer, dirtier, buggier or hungrier century than mankind has seen in a while. In some places, it may be deadlier, too.
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Creators of the Times Atlas have had to make significant changes to their latest edition because of changes to the world&#39;s landscapes caused by climate change, their chief said Sunday.
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Scientists are puzzled, but the phenomenon seems to fit the latest global-warming models.
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Extreme weather, drought and spreading disease are on the horizon if something isn't done to rein in the human impact on the environment, a new study says. By the Associated Press.