Category Climate change

Earth’s average temperature has risen nearly one degree Fahrenheit over the past 30 years, and another increase of about four degrees over the next century would “imply changes that constitute practically a different planet,” said James Hansen, who directs NASA’s…

Hollywood action star-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger has called for urgent action to tackle global warming. He wrote: "I say the debate is over. We know the science and we see the threat. Most of all, I say that the time for…

Six former heads of the Environmental Protection Agency  – five Republicans and one Democrat – accused the Bush administration Wednesday of neglecting global warming and other environmental problems. "I don’t think there’s a commitment in this administration," said Bill Ruckelshaus,…

Email from a reader: My name is Nick Lezin and I am helping to spread the word about a new environmental campaign called The Virtual March to Stop Global Warming. The Virtual March was launched to confront this urgent threat…

Ocean levels are rising twice as fast today as they were 150 years ago, and human-induced warming appears to be the culprit, say scientists at Rutgers.