UN: Weather and Climate Dominate 2015 Disaster Trends
A rampant El Nino spurred by global warming was responsible for 92% of natural disasters in 20151, according to the UN’s risk agency....
Climate Change Helps Bats to Spread their Wings
Climate change is most likely behind the extraordinary spread of a type of vesper bat across Europe over the last four decades. Kuhl's...
In Greenland, a Climate Change Mystery With Clues Written in Water and Stone
The breakfast on the edge of Greenland’s massive ice sheet is ordinary — granola, yogurt, bread and jam. Everything else here is anything...
Major Population Shift In Europe Near End Of Last Ice Age Linked To Climate Change
A team of geneticists analyzed the DNA of prehistoric humans across Europe to see how the populations handled extreme climate conditions...
Climate Change is Putting Fisheries Around the World at Risk
The first of what will be a series of assessments of the country’s fisheries found that Northeast marine life will respond poorly to...
Will Climate Change Have More Complex Effects on Sexual and Reproductive Health?
The Zika viral epidemic represents a perfect storm of climate change, disease, sexuality and reproductive health. In 2009, I was deeply...
Grey Treefrogs Reveal New Clues about Climate Change
Grey treefrogs may reveal new clues about climate change. Scientists have found that increasing temperatures and climate variability may...
Climate Change Will Remove Birds' Control Over Hatching Eggs
It's an odd quirk of nature that birds - even chickens - typically lay just one egg a day, and many species rely on all the eggs in the...
Climate Change is killing Ancient Tasmanian Forests
North-western Tasmania is home to one of the world's last remnants of primeval temperate rainforest, part of an ecosystem that once...
Leonardo DiCaprio Meets Pope, Discusses Environment
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio brushed up his Italian to greet Pope Francis at the Vatican Thursday, discussed their shared concern over the...