Global warming to multiply world's refugee burden
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If rising sea levels force the people of the Maldive Islands to seek new homes, who will look after them in a world already turning warier of refugees?
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Global temperatures predicted for the coming centuries could trigger a mass extinction, warn scientists.
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A global warming trend will reduce farm yields and make food supplies scarcer over the next century, an environmental group said Thursday, citing data from the United Nations and the National Academy of Sciences and trends in the world rice market.
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Hundreds of millions of livelihoods will be affected by the world's declining ice and snow cover, the UN warns.
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Arctic regions are warming twice as fast as the rest of the world - a trend marked by melting glaciers, shrinking sea ice and climatic changes that are turning solid ground into swamps, exposing coastal villages to erosion and threatening wildlife.
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By Kathie Durbin, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Feb. 12--Just when things seem to be settling into a routine and the flood of new bills (2,084 as of Friday) is slowing to a trickle, along comes global climate change.
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Climate change poses as much danger to the world as war, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday as he pledged to make global warming the focus of talks with world leaders in June.
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Millions of Africans are likely to be worst affected by global warming, a conference on climate change hears.
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The world's largest general scientific society on Sunday joined the concern over global climate change, calling it a "growing threat to society."
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By The Wisconsin State Journal  Dec. 12--The resilience of life on Earth continues to amaze and inspire.   And a little reassurance is probably needed, given such threats as  terrorism, global warming and bird flu.
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The U.N. climate panel issued its strongest warning yet on Friday that human activities are heating the planet, putting extra pressure on governments to do more to combat accelerating global warming.
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'Six Degrees Could Change the World,' presented by National Geographic, looks at the impact global warming could have on the world's most fragile â and remote â locales.
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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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BUENOS AIRES The Inuit, 155,000 seal-hunting peoples scattered around the Arctic, plan to seek a ruling from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the United States, by contributing substantially to global warming, is threatening their
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The ice is melting and the heat is on for international delegates assembling in Buenos Aires next week to find new ways to confront global warming under the 194-nation treaty on climate change.
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CHERSKY, Russia  - One day, climate change could cost the earth. For now, it is a nice little earner for Russian hunter Alexander Vatagin.
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The world's governments must dramatically cut emissions of heat-trapping gases or learn to live with more droughts, heat waves, powerful rainstorms, and rising sea levels that will affect millions, leading climate scientists said after the release of a landmark global warming report yesterday.