The polar bear just got listed as a threatened species, but veteran polar explorer Will Steger and the team he's leading in the Canadian Arctic found themselves threatened - by the bears.

A researcher says koala numbers are under threat from carbon pollution in the atmosphere because the greenhouse gas saps nutrients from eucalypt leaves with are the animals' only source of food.

Klaus Lackner, a physicist at Columbia University, said placing enough carbon filters around the planet could reel the world's atmosphere back toward the 18th century, like a climatic time machine.

The acre of young trees annually produces enough oxygen to keep 18 people alive and at the same time, absorbs the amount of carbon dioxide produced by driving a car 26,000 miles!

If the most dire climate forecasts come true the tourism industry in Europe's far north, already feeling the effects of global warming, may find itself promoting a Santa in shorts and a camel-drawn sleigh.

Burning coal, oil and gas adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, the same gas used to give soft drinks fizz. Just as carbon dioxide is absorbed into the drink, ocean water absorbs it from the air. When the carbon dioxide enters the ocean, it makes the wat

The extreme cold weather in the past centuries has coincided with wars, population collapse and economic crises.

A severe storm broke a small Russian oil tanker off the Ukrainian port of Kerch on Sunday, spilling up to 2,000 tons of fuel oil in what environmental official Oleg Mitvol described as a disaster.