That’s from the avalanche center in the Tetons, and here is a current web-cam view up Yosemite Valley towards still-closed Tioga Pass (in the left background): AP has a nice roundup of late snow and snowpack news (including the Teton quote). Just w...

Published: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 - 11:33 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) Marcos Guerra, STRI Robert Stallard To understand the long-term effects of a prolonged tropical storm in the Panama Canal watershed, Robert Stallar...

Press Release 11-084Fossil Sirenians Give Scientists New Look at Ancient Climate Change view of water temperature during time when first modern mammals emerged Geologist Mark Clementz samples tooth enamel from molars in the lower jaw of a Florida ma...

The emergence of media outlets over the past several years where citizens can get news and ideas that mirror their own beliefs has magnified political differences on global warming. (Credit: iStockphoto) MICHIGAN STATE (US) — Over the past decade, R...

James Hansen, Makiko Sato, Pushker Kharecha, Karina von Schuckmann Improving observations of ocean temperature confirm that Earth is absorbing more energy from the sun than it is radiating to space as heat, even during the recent solar minimum. This ...

If you're sitting on a bench in New York City's Central Park in winter, you're probably freezing.After all, the average temperature in January is 32 degrees Fahrenheit.But if you were just across the pond in Porto, Portugal, which shares New York's la...

University of Cincinnati research is investigating why a highly sophisticated civilization decided to build large, bustling cities next to what is essentially swampland. The research by UC Geography Professor Nicholas Dunning, a three-year, interdiscip...

The equatorial waters of the Eastern Pacific off the coast of South America have steadily warmed during March, and it appears increasingly likely that the current La Niña event will be over by June. This week, sea surface temperatures (SSTs) over th...

by Janet Ritz The world changes so fast, it's difficult to see it in context. Scientists watch from a mathematical point of view, points on a graph, comparative analyses, blips on radar from sensors slapped on the bows of ships.  Dry bi...

Data that scientists have extracted from ice cores in places like Greenland have provided some of the most compelling evidence that the climate is rapidly warming. But it's not a widely understood concept, simple as the fundamentals of the process ar...

(FECYT - Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology) At the end of the 20th century, the rise in sea level of the Mediterranean sea was lower than in the rest of the world due to atmospheric pressure, but since the start of the 21st century the leve...

The A-Train series of satellites collecting aerosol information; Image via NASA Last month, we reported on the Glory Satellite from NASA. Intended to measure airborn grit from volcanoes, forest fires, smokestacks and tailpipes, the satellite, named G...

Warming World 1880-2010 (NASA) A NASA visualization shows the change in global warmth from 1880 through 2010, with colors indicating the difference from the mean for 1951-80 (warmest colors reflect the biggest upward anomaly; coolest colors show coo...

CARDIFF U (UK) — Researchers studying ocean sediment cores have found evidence that past changes in ocean circulation may have been more dramatic than previously thought. Scientists have long suspected that far more severe and longer-lasting cold int...

Image credit: Geophysical Research Letters Questions such as how much fresh water we have left on Earth, where it is located, and how we can access it are all nearly impossible to answer. However, scientists working on understanding and revealing the...

Most of the world's mountain glaciers and small ice caps will disappear or shrivel dramatically by the end of the century, with Alaska glaciers and...

photo: Francesco Z/Creative Commons Those who don't remember the past... It's been long known that changing climatic conditions has contributed to the demise of ancient civilizations (think: the Saraswati-Indus civilization when the Saraswati River d...

1. Climate Change -- the scientific debate A basic look at how climate scientists infer that man-made carbon gases are changing the climate, and how this view is contradicted by other climate scientists who are skeptics. I am a former science corres...

Eddsworld - Climate Change See Edd, Tom & Matt save the Earth. tve asked some of the world's leading YouTubers to make films ahead of the Copenhagen climate change conference in December 2009. From: tveInspiringChange Views: 1130568 630...

Actress and environmental activist Daryl Hannah recently demonstrated her eco chops as “Connector of the Day” on Connect the World — a CNN series that takes viewers on a journey across continents and into the stories that are changing the world. Hannah appeared on the show via Cancun, Mexico where ...

The diminished number of political figures is contrasted by the growing participation of the business community which is speaking in stronger terms than ever before about the need to find real solutions to human-induced climate change.

The Cancun climate summit is officially known as a "Conference of Parties" -- a meeting of representatives of countries which signed up to the 1992...

From sea level rise, to extreme weather, to desertification, the US has among the highest risk for damages. Photo: US Army/Creative Commons. Each year there are 350,000 people dying due to climate change, with a total death toll by 2020 of five milli...

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The Vancouver Sun is reporting that "billionaire Bill Gates is funding experiments to explore using "artificial" ...

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Kenya's Daliy Nation reports that " The KENYA Meteorological Department predicted a return of the infamous El Niño rains in late 2009. The prophecy ...

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