IKE

A wave breaks over a street sign as Hurricane Ike approaches Galveston, Texas September 12, 2008. Massive Hurricane Ike bore down on the Texas coast on Friday with a wall of water that threatened a potential catastrophe for the United States.
REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi (UNITED STATES)

Inept response to floods outrages India

"It looks unusual for such heavy rains to hit Nepal and Bihar at the same time and cause floods so regularly," Sunita Narain, a climate change expert said in New Delhi.

"We don't have time now, we better get our act together now and prepare to face disasters tomorrow." (Editing by Simon Denyer)

Baykeeper urges IJC to act as climate change blamed for low water levels

Climate change is contributing to the lower water levels in the Great Lakes, a member of the International Upper Great Lakes Study's public interest advisory group said Monday.

Climate change blamed for birds’ early egg laying

Work carried out by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) surveying 30,000 nests showed species such as the chaffinch and robin are laying their eggs about a week earlier than they did during the 1960s.

Climate change impacts on Sierra Nevada 'scary'

Climate change is already impacting the southern Sierra Nevada and will have profound effects on everything from water supplies and forest fires to the survival of giant sequoias, researchers said Thursday

Explorer kayaks to 1,000 km from N.Pole

OSLO (Reuters) - A British explorer has kayaked to within 1,000 km (620 miles) of the North Pole to highlight a rapid shrinking of Arctic ice and put pressure on governments to do more to fight global warming.

Melting Swiss glacier yields Neolithic trove, climate secrets

BERN (AFP) — Some 5,000 years ago, on a day with weather much like today's, a prehistoric person tread high up in what is now the Swiss Alps, wearing goat leather pants, leather shoes and armed with a bow and arrows.

Trees Suffer One-Two Punch of Acid Rain and Climate Change

Forests in Vermont's Green Mountains transition abruptly from a heat-loving mix of sugar maple, American beech, and yellow birch on the lower slopes to a cold-adapted mix of red spruce, balsam fir, and paper birch higher up.

A new study shows that the altitude of that transition zone rose as much as 400 feet between 1962 and 2005-right in sync with a hike of 2 Fahrenheit degrees in the area's mean annual temperature.

Strongest Hurricanes Getting Stronger

Strong hurricanes are getting stronger, likely thanks to global warming, a new study finds.

The news comes as Tropical Storms Hanna, Ike and Josephine march almost in a line across the Atlantic basin, and just days after Hurricane Gustav slammed into the Louisiana coast.

Pyrenees glaciers will melt by 2050: Spanish study

MADRID (AFP) - Climate change will melt the 21 remaining glaciers in the Pyrenees mountains before 2050, a group of Spanish researchers said Friday.

In storm-battered Haiti, humanitarian crisis as 500 are killed

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) - Hundreds of people were found dead in Haiti as international aid trickled Saturday to desperate residents who have not eaten in days since the latest in a battery of storms crushed the country.

19-square-mile ice sheet breaks loose in Canada

TORONTO - A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier, scientists said Wednesday.

Killer Ike blasts Bahamas, floods Haiti, hits Cuba

CAMAGUEY, Cuba - Hurricane Ike bore down on Cuba after roaring across low-lying islands Sunday, tearing apart houses, wiping out crops and worsening floods in Haiti that have already killed more than 300 people.