Weather forecasters help fight climate change
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The European Union has found new partners in its campaign against global warming: weather forecasters.
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The World Bank is hiring experts in 'adaptation' to a warming world. Coastal planners are starting to take it into account.
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Darkening skies and a light morning drizzle blanketed the fields while combines harvested corn and tractor-trailers hauled away this year's crop. Even though he knew what was coming, Brian Watkins hopped out of his pickup truck and stepped into his office to check the weather forecast on his computer.
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A lively and sometimes scrappy debate on whether global warming is fueling bigger and nastier hurricanes like Katrina is adding an edge to a gathering of forecasters here.
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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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Weather forecasting just isn't what it used to be. With thousands of satellites orbiting Earth, with astronauts living in the international space station and perhaps venturing later to the moon and Mars, and with nations utterly dependent on space-based assets for their communications, navigation and spying, those responsible for the safety of all these moving parts need to know about a whole new world of weather conditions. ...
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Thanks to availability entrepreneurs, misinterpreting the weather is getting easier and easier.
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The Scottish government is to outline its approach in the fight against climate change.
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Declaring the global warming debate over, an international team of scientists urged the world's nations on Tuesday to act now to keep climate change from becoming a catastrophe.
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Cities around the world are facing the danger of rising seas and other disasters related to climate change.
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The National Weather Service is revamping the way it has issued severe weather warnings for decades with a new system designed to mark a geographic bull's eye where a storm will hit.
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Predicted rises in temperatures will hit cities harder than surrounding areas, a study warns.
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Scholars from different disciplines are crossing lines to share ideas about reducing the threat of climate change.
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A leading climatologist explains why he and other experts on global warming have decided to move beyond doing science to pushing for action to cut greenhouse gases.
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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.
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The strong winds that blow across the Northern Plains have been chased over the past two years by a spate of politicians and entrepreneurs eager to exploit them as an energy alternative to fossil fuels.
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MONTERREY, Mexico  - The world's top polluting nations were told on Wednesday to prepare for decades of weather turmoil, even if they act now to curb emissions and pursue green energy sources.