'Children of the Amazon', a new documentary by Denise Zmekhol, looks at the cultural transformation of the Surui and Negarote tribes following the development and improvement of a highway that penetrates deep into the Amazon rainforest of western Brazil.

Iceland's glaciers could all be gone by the next century, thanks to global warming, a new government report says.

HURRAY!! Updated Monday, October 6, 2008 at 3:28 p.m.ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The federal government will designate "critical habitat" for polar bears in the ocean off Alaska's coast, a decision that could add restrictions to future offshore petroleum explor

Britain must abandon using almost all fossil fuels to produce power in 20 years' time, the government's climate change watchdog will warn today.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A book published by the U.S. Geological Survey reports that 99 percent of glaciers in Alaska are thinning or in retreat, especially at lower elevations.

For a long time -- the first 15 years that we knew about global warming, and did nothing -- there were no pictures -- but now there is the meltdown travelogue to view the environmental damages.

For a long time -- the first 15 years that we knew about global warming and did nothing -- there were no pictures. That was one of the reasons for inaction.

As the world's oceans become more acidic, the underwater sounds that whales and other marine mammals depend on for survival may turn into a confusing racket, a new study says.

Hansen et al."If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted," the paper states, "CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm [parts per million] to at most 350 ppm"

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature, based in Switzerland, has just reported that the earth faces the total extinction of one in every four mammals, and that the population is rapidly declining in one out of every two species.