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.

A study led by a former climate change skeptic concludes that man-made greenhouse emissions have contributed to the planet's rising temperature.

Aerosmith is set to release their latest studio album "Music From Another Dimension," which will drop on November 5. The band has tapped a number of outside talents to add some unique flavor to its new album.

Previous studies have pegged polar bear origin at around 600,000 years ago, but they've actually existed as a distinct species as early as 5 million years ago, according to a new paper.

An iceberg twice the size of Manhattan has reportedly broken free of one of Greenland's largest glaciers.

Now that Aerosmith front man Steven Tyler is done being the good guy judge on American Idol, he can finally go back to being one of The Bad Boys from Boston.

Thousands of miles away, a cadre of international Nobel laureates assembled to discuss global warming were having a, er, heated debate, arguing over data that the vast majority of scientists the world over say shows clear evidence of manmade climate change. But in the steaming streets of Brooklyn, the crowded public pools of Atlanta and the power outage-hit suburbs of Washington, D.C., the discussion was unanimous: It was hot.

A federal court has defended the Obama administration's unprecedented push to limit greenhouse gas emissions, laying down a marker in the debate over the limits of environmental regulation.

While coal has powered the 19th-century Industrial Revolution, heated homes and generated electricity, the era of King Coal has come to an end.

A new study predicts that by 2050, waters just off the western coast of the U.S. will become acidic enough such that ocean-dwelling creatures like mussels, oysters and corals won't be able to form their shells or skeletons.

The American Petroleum Institute and America's Natural Gas Alliance are criticizing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's most recent natural gas emission estimates and suggest actual industry emissions are half what federal regulators say.

Scientists have finished sequencing the genomes of the domestic tomato and one of its wild relatives, paving the way for more precise breeding in tomatoes and other plants.

Time to update his Facebook relationship status; Al Gore has a new girlfriend. Former vice president Gore, 64, is dating serious girlfriend Elizabeth Keadle. Gore separated from his wife Tipper in 2010 after over 40 years of marriage and four children. The announcement of a new girlfriend comes just two years after their split with no reports about a coming divorce.

Dinosaur farts and burps could have had a significant effect on prehistoric climate change, according to a new study from a trio of British scientists.

The conservative think tank's billboard campaign features the Unabomber, Charles Manson and Fidel Castro.

Movies have repeatedly displayed attacks on the city of Los Angeles. This time it's getting a bit of a prehistoric twist. Warner Bros. has purchased a sci-fi action pitch about dinosaurs attacking modern day Los Angeles.

Donald Trump fears that a wind farm off the shores of Scotland would harm the country's tourism industry ... and also his $1.2 billion golf course.

Jellyfish population in marine ecosystem around the world is on the rise and may interfere directly with human activities, a new study claims.

Much of the American public believes there is a connection between global climate change and a recent surge in dire weather conditions like droughts, heat waves and flooding.

Earth Day 2012 is on April 22, and will be observed around the world with events and activities highlighting environmental concerns and planetary health issues.

New satellite images and data have proved that some glaciers on Asia’s Karakoram mountain range, a part of the Himalayas, have gained ice mass.