World experts on the polar regions told U.S. Senate staffers and the national press corps today that they are witnessing the accelerated melting and break-up of the polar ice caps, and that previous worst-case scenarios for a meter of sea-level rise this century are the new minimum of what we can expect. (PRWeb Nov 20, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009 ...

World experts on the polar regions told U.S. Senate staffers and the national press corps today that they are witnessing the accelerated melting and break-up of the polar ice caps, and that previous worst-case scenarios for a meter of sea-level rise this century are the new minimum of what we can expect.

A report Tuesday on the latest climate-change research shows emissions rising quickly and ice caps melting faster than projected. The report comes amid a controversy over hacked scientists’ e-mails that some say point to a global warming hoax.

THE Earth's temperature is continuing to rise, the Greenland and the Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an increasing rate and the global warming could reach as high as 7 degrees by the turn of the century if greenhouse gases grow unabated, a r review of climate science over the past three years has found.

Climate change. Melting ice caps. Rising ocean levels. Scientists have only begun to decode the complexity of the issue.

Global warming could reach as high as 7 degrees by the turn of the century if greenhouse gases grow unabated, a review of climate science over the past three years has found.

Global warming is accelerating says international group of climate scientists.

Polar bears falling from the sky and ending up in bloody, bone-crunching heaps is the shocking visuals for a new online and cinema advertisement campaign by Plane Stupid , a European airline pollution advocacy group. Read more...

Knit Twit Dept. Hello, America. A special Glenn Beck Program tonight: I'm speaking to you from somewhere in the North Pole, and let me tell you [adopts cartoonish yokel voice with rubbery exaggerated shiver] it is coooooooold up here. Pudgy lunatic Glenn Beck has crafted a new piece of spoken performance, an "intimate journey of transformation," called The Christmas Sweater: A Return to ...

The United States will do its part to reduce corruption in Afghanistan by examining its own contracts and projects, even as it is demanding the same from the Afghan government, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday.