2007 Tied for Earth's Second Warmest Year

The year 2007 has tied 1998 for the Earth’s second warmest this century, NASA scientists announced today.

Climate change threatens N. Ireland's Giant's Causeway: report

BELFAST (AFP) - The Giant's Causeway, the spectacular rock formation on the Northern Irish coast, could soon become difficult to access due to climate change, a report warned Tuesday.

Arctic ice-cap loss twice the size of France: research

PARIS (AFP) - The Arctic ice cap has shrunk by an area twice the size of France's land mass over the last two years, the Paris-based National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) said Wednesday.

Drought could force nuke-plant shutdowns

LAKE NORMAN, N.C. - Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought is drying up the rivers and lakes that supply power plants with the awesome amounts of cooling water they need to operate.

Japan temperatures could rise five degrees by 2100: panel

TOKYO (AFP) - Global warming could cause temperatures in Japan to rise an average of 4.7 degrees Celsius (8.5 Fahrenheit) above normal by the last three decades of the century, an environment ministry panel has warned.

Drought driving deadly snakes into Australian cities: official

SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia's harsh drought is driving venomous snakes into urban areas in search of moisture, resulting in an increasing number of attacks on people, officials said Thursday

First snow for 100 years falls on Baghdad

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Light snow fell in Baghdad early on Friday in what weather officials said was the first time in about a 100 years.

France Used to Be a Jungle

Where the Champs Elysee, the Eiffel Tower and sprawling vineyards now stand, there might once have been an Amazon-like jungle.

A new analysis of amber fossils collected in France suggests that the country was once covered by a dense tropical rainforest.

Tropical dengue fever may threaten U.S.: report

WASHINGTON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Dengue fever -- a tropical infection that usually causes flu-like illness -- may be poised to spread across the United States and urgent study is needed, health officials said on Tuesday.

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