2006 set to be warmest on record in Britain: survey
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This year is set to be the warmest on  record in Britain and the sixth warmest globally, according to  a survey released on Thursday by the Meteorological Office and  the University of East Anglia.
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A sweltering heat wave lingering over  the U.S. Northeast was expected to boost power consumption to  record levels for the second day in a row on Wednesday.
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Britain&#039;s economy grew by 0.6 percent during the first quarter of 2006, unchanged from the previous quarter and leading to the fastest annual growth pace since 2004.
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A new study offers definitive proof that global warming is all too real, responsible for the highest temperatures in at least 400 years
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Are we really heading for an ice-free Arctic? More than 50,000 researchers hope to find an answer during a massive study of how global warming and other phenomena are changing the coldest parts of the Earth _ ...Comment
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Homes in the north of England are more energy efficient than those in the South, a survey reveals.
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By LUCIE VAN DEN BERG  WITH stories of Ireland becoming the new Mediterranean due to global warming, many could be forgiven for thinking it has already happened.   The country bathed in the warmest weather of the year at the weekend as the mercury rose to balmy 25 degrees.
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Met Office figures show last year was the second warmest on record in the UK.
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A rise of 1 degree Celsius could be enough to trigger 'dangerous' warming, scientists warn.
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The year 2004 was the fourth hottest ever recorded and the past decade was the warmest since measurements began in 1861, the World Meteorological Organisation said Wednesday.
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A weak El Nino and human-made greenhouse gases could make 2005 the warmest year since records started being kept in the late 1800s, NASA scientists said this week.
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June was the wettest the UK has seen since detailed records began in 1914, the Met office confirms.
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By Anonymous  Plymouth, England, UK  The September 2006 issue of Warmer Bulletin summarizes a research project examining in-vessel composting of food wastes at the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom.
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The year 2004, punctuated by four powerful hurricanes in the Caribbean and deadly typhoons lashing Asia, was the fourth-hottest on record, extending a trend that has seen the 10 warmest years ever beginning in the 1990s, a U.N. weather agency said Wednesday.
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Climatologists at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City have found that 2006 was the fifth warmest year in the past century.
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Bulgaria in Brief: 27 December 2004, Monday. Bulgaria's northern region has seen its highest end-December temperatures in decades this Christmastime, meteorologists reported.
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A deadly UK heatwave may be imminent, but climate change may mean fewer temperature-related deaths, a report says.