GLOBAL WARMING

The receding Arctic Ocean ice has opened up two major sea lanes that maritime shippers are using to cut costs.

If Americans worked less, like Europeans, global warming may slow down, thereby saving the planet, according to a liberal think tank.

Sheep farming, an ancient and iconic institution in rural Wales, is threatened on a number of fronts.

Donor-advised funds have reportedly channeled money from the Kochs to groups that deny the link between fossil fuels and global warming.

Incredibly warm springs in 2010 and 2012 resulted in the earliest known flowering in 161 years at two sites in Massachusetts and Wisconsin.

Last year was also the 36th consecutive year to register a global temperature above the 20th-century average.

Eastern European tree samples confirm that the recent warming in the region is outpacing any natural climate variations seen since the Middle Ages.

How could Superstorm Sandy have plunged 90 percent of us into the dark, displaced thousands and caused misery: complacency.

Some meteorologists are drawing comparisons between Hurricane Sandy's approach and the “Perfect Storm” of 1991 - Hurricane Grace.

A dozen British scientists, engineers and researchers will drill down in December to a buried Antarctic lake 2 miles under an ancient ice sheet, gathering water and sediment samples in the hopes of discovering clues about the Earth's climate history and possibly new life forms.

The video, released on Thursday, highlights the pledges President Obama has kept since entering the White House. But what promises hasn't he kept?

While the presidential candidates' plans to tackle unemployment, the national debt, health care reform, immigration, gay marriage and gun control might be the topics that have Main Street voters buzzing ahead of this year's election, a new report by the global equity research team at Standard & Poor's shows Wall Street investors have very different policy debates in mind.

As climate change warms the world's oceans and Arctic sea ice recedes to its lowest -ever recorded levels, China has taken advantage of it -- and may soon reap commercial benefits

Female agricultural workers do not produce as much as their male counterparts in Africa, but fixing that problem could have a major impact in food shortages across the continent.

What do conspiracy theorists and free market ideologues have in common? They both deny climate change, according to a recent psychological study conducted b y the University of Western Australia.

A prominent pediatric organization points to circumcision's health benefits, but stops short of decreeing that all male infants should go under the knife.

Scientists found that with four weeks to go in the melting season, Greenland's ice sheet is melting with record-busting strength.

They’re here now, but they won’t be around forever.

Iowa, the largest state grower of corn and soy, has seen the size of its territory under extreme drought conditions rise from almost 31 percent last week to nearly 70 percent since Tuesday.

NASA researcher James Hansen is coauthor of a new paper that places the blame for heat waves over the past few years squarely on global warming.

Peat fires, or underground blazes in the wake of wildfires, are an increasingly dangerous hazard globally and extremely expensive to contain for resource-challenged regions, as Michigan's Upper Peninsula is finding out.