Floods, droughts and severe storms are likely to ravage North America more frequently as emissions of planet-warming gases rise, according to a U.S. government study.

The boom in low-cost air travel has turned this corner of southern Spain into a thriving tourist destination, and retired plumbers and schoolteachers into Europe’s new jet set. But it has done more than democratize air travel and offer new vistas to working-class people. It has also opened a new dimension to the global warming crisis.

TODAY much of the north-western US wilderness is already a tinderbox, but thanks to global warming, wildfires will be scorching even more land every year by the end of the century.

The recent surge in demand for food and biofuel has increased the risks facing the world's wetlands, warn scientists.

Flooding in southern China has killed at least 55 people and forced more than one million to flee their homes, the government says. Torrential downpours have affected nine provinces, China's civil affairs ministry says.

US cities that have long promoted bicycle use by commuters are now seeing a steady rise in the popularity of pedal power as gasoline prices soar.

The United Nations environment agency unveiled a new atlas Tuesday that shows what the agency says are the dramatic effects of climate change on Africa. The nearly 400-page publication features over 300 satellite images taken in every African country.

The leader of a country slowly being submerged by the Pacific Ocean told an environment conference Thursday that climate change is an issue of human survival, not economic development.

Food prices continue to rise because of increasing demand, high energy costs, climate change, speculation, export/import bans, and subsidies. The long-term impact has yet to be fully felt around the world. How many people does the United Nations World Food Program assist each year?

A new satellite analysis of logging in Papua New Guinea shows that the country has been losing about 1,400 square miles of rain forest, or about 1.4 percent of its total forest cover, each year.

Professor Shanan Peters looked at data gathered by scientists over many years and analyzed what they found at about 600 locations all over the continental United States and Alaska, going back more than 500 million years. He found that changes in ocean environments related to sea level exert a driving influence on rates of extinction, which animals and plants survive or vanish, and the composition of life in the ocean.

Professor Shanan Peters looked at data gathered by scientists over many years and analyzed what they found at about 600 locations all over the continental United States and Alaska, going back more than 500 million years. He found that changes in ocean environments related to sea level exert a driving influence on rates of extinction, which animals and plants survive or vanish, and the composition of life in the ocean.

NASA launched a satellite on a joint three-year mission with the French space agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales to measure sea-surface height as a way to monitor global climate change.

The Academies of Science for the G8+5 nations have called for governments to agree by 2009 a timetable, funding and a coordinated plan for the construction of a number of carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration plants.

If climate change continues apace, the oceans of the future may be empty of corals, sea urchins and other organisms that are vital to the marine ecosystem. A survey of life around oceanic volcanic vents has found that these animals cannot survive in environments rich in carbon dioxide that mimic the future seas.

Global climate change will not only impact plants and animals but will also affect bacteria, fungi and other microbial populations that perform a myriad of functions important to life on earth. It is not entirely certain what those effects will be, but they could be significant and will probably not be good, say researchers June 3 at a scientific meeting in Boston.

As world oil prices skyrocket, thousands of households in energy-poor Japan are taking part in an ambitious experiment to use fuel cells to light and heat their homes.

Negotiators from more than 172 countries are meeting in Bonn to hammer out a deal that may culminate in a new global climate agreement. In this week's Green Room, UN climate chief Yvo de Boer argues that negotiators want to see more of the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism, not less.

Perhaps the most interesting place where solar energy is making inroads is in utilities. Not only are they setting up solar power plants of their own, they are also buying solar energy from others. There are 4,500 megawatts of solar power plant projects in the works as we speak.

After decades on the fringe, solar power is closing in on America's mainstream as surging fossil fuel prices and mounting concern over climate change spur states, businesses and homeowners into a quickening embrace with alternative energy.

EU carbon prices have hit their highest level in 25 months on the soaring world oil price. Carbon prices have now risen more than 40 per cent over the last four months.

Some of the most powerful corporate leaders in America have been meeting regularly with leading environmental groups in a conference room in downtown Washington for over two years to work on proposals for a national policy to limit carbon emissions.

Get ready for the selling of "clean coal." A $40 million industry-sponsored marketing and lobbying campaign has launched, with one national television spot featuring a farmer, a teacher, and a woman in a white lab coat declaring: "I believe"—while a voiceover describes how coal can be burned in an environmentally friendly manner.

White House officials refused to open e-mail from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that said global warming threatens public welfare and urged more fuel-efficient cars, congressional staff said on Monday.

Opinion piece on the failure of the Lieberman-Warner bill: "The most obvious lesson to be learned from the Senate’s failure to mount any sort of grown-up debate on climate change last week is that the country needs a new occupant in the White House."

Soaring oil and food prices are emerging as serious threats to global economic growth, finance ministers from the world's top industrialized nations said Saturday, while vowing to work together to address the problem.

The European Commission will look at changing taxes to boost energy efficiency and help poor people hit by high fuel costs but will tread carefully over the possibility of so-called "Robin Hood taxes", a spokesman said.

Senate leaders yesterday abruptly pulled back legislation that would have mandated major cuts in US greenhouse-gas emissions after they came a dozen votes shy of ending a GOP filibuster.

Germany, Britain and Poland plan to table proposals at this week's meeting of European Union energy ministers that would allow nations to join forces in pursuing their renewable energy targets, diplomats said on Thursday.

With Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) committed to making climate change a priority if elected president in November, the leadership that has been missing for nearly eight years may finally come from the White House

Russia this week pledged budget funds for clean energy and called for limits on greenhouse gas emissions in a reversal of the country's earlier reluctance to embrace the Kyoto Protocol and energy efficiency.