Monday, February 26, 2007

One million in China face water shortage

Exotic animals seen where Antarctic ice used to be

Thursday, February 22, 2007

Powerful cyclone hits flood-ravaged Mozambique

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Rare loon deaths in New Hampshire faze scientists

Saturday, February 17, 2007

Hot and snowy extremes in China's northeast

Rain storm death toll rises to 40 in India

Rising sea levels present China with 'unimaginable challenges'

Vanishing glaciers offer clear evidence of climate change: scientists

Heaviest snow in nearly a century hits northern Indian resort town

Mozambique flood victims need help for months: WFP

Warmest January ever recorded worldwide in 2007: US scientists

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Tokyo sets snowless record

'Doomsday' vault design unveiled

The final design for a "doomsday" vault that will house seeds from all known varieties of food crops has been unveiled by the Norwegian government.

"We also modelled climate change in a drastic form 200 years into future, which included the melting of ice sheets at the North and South Poles, and Greenland, to make sure that this site was above the resulting water level."

Sunday, February 11, 2007

Warming threatens double-trouble in Peru

Andean farmers walk as the Pastoruri glacier is seen in the background in Huaraz, Peru, Nov. 4, 2006. Peru's Andes mountains have lost at least 22 percent of their glacier area since 1970 and the meltdown is speeding up, according to Peru's National Resources Institute and scientists.(AP Photo/Karel Navarro)

Peru's "White Mountain Range" may soon have to change its name.

The ice atop Cordillera Blanca, the largest glacier chain in the tropics, is melting fast because of rising temperatures, and peaks are turning brown. The trend is highlighting fears of global warming and, scientists say, is endangering future water supplies to the arid coast where most Peruvians live.

Friday, February 02, 2007

Floods paralyse Indonesian capital

Philippine crops ravaged by surprise freeze

Seas rising faster than U.N. predicts: study

Cool water surges could affect fish stocks: report

Australia temperatures to soar in 65 years

Warming linked to stronger hurricanes

Global Warming Wakes Groundhogs Earlier

US thinktank offering cash to dispute UN climate panel: report

Warming to worsen droughts, floods, storms this century: UN panel

Global warming man-made, will continue

Tankers may ship water to parched cities of future

14 dead as storms sweep through Fla