Heat is on...Oceans could rise by a meter by 2100
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Global warming is melting the Arctic ice faster than expected, and the world&#39;s oceans could rise by about a meter by 2100, swamping homes from Bangladesh to Florida, the head of a study said.
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Scientists try to figure out how far off the next ice age is.
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Description: New evidence is reported that rising global temperatures could have rapid effects on the Antarctic ice pack and on ocean levels.
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It sounds insignificant alongside the Indian Ocean tsunami, yet an almost imperceptible annual rise in the world's oceans may pose a huge threat to ports, coasts and islands by 2100.
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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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WASHINGTON - Peering deep into the sea, scientists are finding creatures more mysterious than many could have imagined.  At one site, nearly two miles deep in the Atlantic, shrimp were living around a vent that was releasing water heated to 765 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Global sea levels could rise twice as high this century as UN climate scientists had predicted, a study suggests.
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Business & money: Â·  Petrol heads to Â£1 a litre for the holiday season Â·  Crude hits near-record level amid hurricane fears
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Human activity has raised the risk of more heatwaves like last year&#39;s, which gave Europe probably its hottest summer since 1500, scientists said on Wednesday.
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. _ The seas have been rising for 18,000 years, but the pace has quickened.  Geologic records show an average increase of about 2 inches every 100 years from the most recent ice age until the beginning of the past century.
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Blog: Some wet areas of earth will get wetter with climate change.
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Scientists are puzzled, but the phenomenon seems to fit the latest global-warming models.
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The Earth's rapid warming has pushed temperatures to their hottest level in nearly 12,000 years and within a hairbreadth of a million years, a study by the US space agency showed.
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Scientists warned Tuesday that a long-term increase in global temperature of 3.5 degrees could threaten Latin American water supplies, reduce food yields in Asia and result in a rise in extreme weather conditions in the Caribbean.
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SCORCHING summers, hotter than that of 2003, could become more common in Europe by the middle of this century. The risk has more than doubled because of human activity producing increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
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Earth may be close to the warmest it   has been in the last million years, especially in the part of   the Pacific Ocean where potentially violent El Nino weather   patterns are born, climate scientists reported on Monday.
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A rise of 1 degree Celsius could be enough to trigger 'dangerous' warming, scientists warn.