Volcanic Warming Eyed in 'Great Dying'
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An ancient version of global warming may have been to blame for the greatest mass extinction in Earth's history.
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Over the last two weeks, Mount Saint Helens captured worldwide attention as it came to life, spewing clouds of steam and ash. But it has also drawn
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Science & environment: Some of Britain's most outstanding areas of natural beauty are at risk from the sort of fires that devastated Greece this summer, according to new analysis looking at the threats posed by global warming.
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Environment lovers can now take their passion to the grave.
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By Daniel Howden Peru's glaciers are melting. High in the Andes, freak hailstorms and cold snaps are freezing llamas to death. In the north of Kenya, unprecedented droughts have driven herdsmen into deadly battles for the few water holes.
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Animal and plant species have begun dying off or changing sooner than predicted because of global warming, a review of hundreds of research studies contends.
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MOUNT ST. HELENS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Wash. -- With scientists predicting that an increase in seismic activity could result in an imminent volcanic eruption
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The extinction of whole species, once specific to isolated islands, is becoming a trend across continents.
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For the second time in three years, a hypoxic "dead zone" has formed off the central Oregon Coast. It's killing fish, crabs and other marine life and leading researchers to believe that a fundamental change may be taking place in ocean conditions in the northern Pacific Ocean.
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Got a terminal illness? Hooray. In the movies, looming death means last-minute adventures and loads of uplifting life lessons
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The burning of fossil fuels has contributed to warming in the Arctic that is much faster and more dramatic than scientists previously believed at nearly twice the rate of the rest of the world, a new international report concludes.
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Indonesia's vast tropical peatlands, a bog of plant debris undisturbed for centuries until they were drained for cultivation, have become a perennial fire hazard and, a new study says, possibly a significant contributor to global warming.
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Signs of ancient eruptions indicate a planet geologically active and may suggest presence of simple life forms. By Peter N. Spotts | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Wired News talks with the writer about Sixty Days and Counting, the final installment in a global-warming-themed trilogy.
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Marine creatures are thriving by a record hot volcanic vent in the Atlantic and in dark waters under thick Antarctic ice, boosting theories that planets other than Earth are suitable for life, scientists said on Sunday.
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Climate scientists agree there have  been a lot of strong hurricanes lately. They agree that warmer  seas have given these storms some extra punch. But they  disagree how much global warming is to blame.
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Whenever the world's tropical seas warm several degrees, Earth has experienced mass extinctions over millions of years, according to a first-of-its-kind statistical study of fossil records.