Effects of Global Warming Making US Sick April 8, 2016 By SETH BORENSTEIN Man-made global warming is making America sicker, and it’s only going to get worse, according to a new federal government...
Study Finds Antarctic Ice Could Melt Faster Than Expected April 4, 2016 By SETH BORENSTEIN Warmer air, less frigid water and gravity may combine to make parts of Antarctica’s western ice sheet melt far faster...
Global Warming Continues to Shrink Juneau Ice Field March 29, 2016 By DAN JOLING A Rhode Island-size ice field in the mountains behind Alaska’s capital could disappear by 2200 if climate-warming trends continue, according...
Study Finds Climate Change Will Impact Farms, Dams March 28, 2016 By DAN ELLIOTT Climate change could upset the complex interplay of rain, snow and temperature in the West, hurting food production, the environment...
Revamped Satellite Data Shows Global Warming Consistent March 9, 2016 By SETH BORENSTEIN Climate change doubters may have lost one of their key talking points: a particular satellite temperature dataset that had seemed...
Sea Levels Have Risen Much Faster Than Any Other Time in Past 2,800 Years February 29, 2016 By SETH BORENSTEIN Sea levels on Earth are rising several times faster than they have in the past 2,800 years and are accelerating...
Southwest Seeing Fewer Wet Weather Systems February 10, 2016 By SCOTT SONNER and SETH BORENSTEIN The southwestern United States has already begun a long-predicted shift into a decidedly drier climate, a new study looking at...
Oceans Absorb Double the Amount of Man-made Heat Since 1997 January 21, 2016 By SETH BORENSTEIN The amount of man-made heat energy absorbed by the seas has doubled since 1997, a new study says. Scientists have...
Climate Researchers Use Whaling Logbooks From 1800s to Better Understand Weather December 21, 2015 By MARK PRATT Maritime historians, climate scientists and ordinary citizens are coming together on a project to study the logbooks of 19th-century whaling...
California Invisible Spill Spewing the Gases of 500,000 Cars December 15, 2015 By Mark Chediak and Harry R. Weber Call it the invisible spill. You can’t see it, but it’s there — a steady stream of natural gas seeping...