Shanghai, China's most populous city and an aspiring global financial center, is also among the world's most vulnerable urban areas to a rise in sea levels as global warming melts polar ice.

Climate change threatens Australia's A$2.1 billion (US$1.6 billion) commercial fishing and aquaculture industry, but may create new wild fisheries as tropical marine species move south as sea temperatures rise.

'Every day the oceans absorb more than 25m tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere,' said Hall-Spencer. 'If it were not for the oceans, levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would be far higher than they are today...

Britain's rivers could nearly run dry because long hot summers caused by climate change will not be sufficiently compensated by wetter winters, researchers predict. It is a scenario that would endanger wildlife and send household water bills soaring.

Last week, the New York Times Dot Earth blog posted a sobering video of coastline erosion in Alaska. This is no simulation - it's a time-lapse video made from pictures taken two hours apart from late June to late July of this year. Alaska's northern coast

If you have a cell phone, DVD player or use a computer then chances are that some part of these devices are made of Coltan. Coltan and Cassiterite are minerals found mainly in the Congo (where critically endangered gorillas live) where it's...

Hurricane Ike's winds and massive waves destroyed oil platforms, tossed storage tanks and punctured pipelines. The environmental damage only now is becoming apparent

Al Roker highlights the worst cases of bad weather from the new documentary series, "When Weather Changed History."

Bathers in the Central Pacific beaches have now crocodiles, who have been prowling the region, to worry about when taking a dip in the ocean water.

Costa Rican Jatropha Genetic Micro Stems for large Panama Biofuel Operation