Polar bears have been described as the poster species highlighting the dangers of climate change, but U.S. scientists suggest species living in the tropics may be in graver danger.
A new Health Canada report warns Canadians of the potential health risks of climate change, including spikes in heat-related deaths, an increase in respiratory and cardiovascular problems, and the ...
Climate change, habitat destruction and disease threaten to wipe out over half of Europe's frog, toad and newt species by the middle of the century, the Zoological Society of London warned Thursday.
New research says that we should be looking to the ground, not the sky, to see where climate change could have its most perilous impact on life on Earth. Scientists at the University of Toronto ...
... ) looks to the future, it should establish a U.S. climate observing system; develop new modeling ... nation on choices to reduce the costs and risks of climate change impacts, and provide early warning ...
... ) looks to the future, it should establish a U.S. climate observing system; develop new modeling ... nation on choices to reduce the costs and risks of climate change impacts, and provide early warning ...
... appears to be due to the low priority placed on identifying and managing the health risks of climate change by Congress and the Federal government." The report estimates that more than $200 million is ...
The polar bear has become an icon of global warming vulnerability, but a new study found an Arctic mammal that may be even more at risk to climate change: the narwhal.
... cent of summers are wetter than a normal winter. What we don’t know is whether climate ... floods as well as the new and uncertain risks of climate change, surveillance, terror and emerging technologies ...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Koalas are threatened by the rising level of carbon dioxide pollution in the atmosphere because it saps nutrients from the eucalyptus leaves they feed on, a researcher ...
... , when they learned about a new technology, people formed reactions to it that matched their views of risks like climate change and nuclear waste disposal," he said.
The study also found that people ...
... "We need both mitigation and adaptation policies to cope with climate change, since we must adapt ... observed impacts and new research, the risks from climate change in general now appear to be greater ...
... scientists who extensively studied one colony and found the population was at significant risk from climate change. The six colonies not found in this study were at a similar latitude suggesting that ...
... former Vice President Al Gore's 2006 film about climate change. The concept has given ... advice in response to the growing concern about the risk of climate change. The working group is assessing options ...
... wealth of new species
discovered in Mekong delta but warns creatures' survival at risk
from climate change
The world is reassuringly stranger than we thought: another
fanged frog has hopped into view ...
