CLIMATE CHANGE

Modern researchers traced the path of a 19th-century sailing ship in order to compare ocean temperatures over the past century and found that the water started getting hotter much earlier than previously expected.

Countless landmarks captured in photos around the world went dark on Saturday, March 31, 2012 as a part of the Earth Hour celebration to raise awareness in a global effort for climate change.

The collapse of an ice sheet in Antarctica up to 14,650 years ago might have caused sea levels to rise between 14 and 18 meters (46-60 feet), a study showed on Wednesday, data which could help make more accurate climate change predictions.

While the U.S. oil and natural gas industries are reaping astronomical profits now, they could increase them even more if companies weren't so wasteful, the Natural Resources Defense Council said.

The Environmental Protection Agency proposed the first limits on carbon dioxide emissions from U.S. power plants, a move cheered by environmentalists as a positive step toward addressing a pollutant linked to climate change.

South Carolina’s Folly Beach got a shocking surprise when something very unusual washed up on their shore over the weekend. The mysterious sea creature was identified by a South Carolina aquarium veterinarian as an Atlantic sturgeon.

The extinction of Australia's giant animals was caused by hunting, not climate change, a new study concludes.

The number of last surviving Maui's dolphins, the world's rarest and smallest marine dolphins, is estimated to be around 55 that call for urgency in conserving the endangered species from extinction, a new find suggests.

Hundreds of tornado fatalities in recent years have got people thinking. Does global warming lead to an increase in deadly twisters?

Kirk Cameron, the former actor who played Mike Seaver on the old sitcom “Growing Pains,” caused a hailstorm of controversy earlier in March when he took to Piers Morgan Tonight for an interview and ended up calling homosexuality detrimental and destructive. Today, the 41-year-old evangelical made his way to The Today Show to try and explain his comments.

The European Union cannot use the economic slowdown as an excuse to delay action on fighting climate change, the bloc's first-ever chief scientific adviser has warned.

Known as “Warriors” for their active involvement in social campaigns, the African ethnic people took up cricket as a tool to spread awareness about healthier lifestyles and HIV/AIDS amongst youth.

A recent scientific study provides evidence that the brown recluse spider is spreading out of southern regions into areas where the climate is becoming warmer.

The researchers of Climate Central and the University of Arizona has predicted that about four million Americans could be at the risk of severe flooding by the end of 21st century due to unexpected climate changes and sea level rise.

Millions of Americans in low-lying coastal cities could see more flooding in coming years as rising temperatures drive up sea levels, according to a new study.

Perez, 21, a student at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, was travelling with her boyfriend and his mother last September when she was bitten by a brown recluse spider.

Global warming is going to affect several coastal states in the U.S., as the sea level is projected to rise up to 8 inches in the coming decades, according to a new study.

In a presidential progress report published Monday, the U.S. seems poised to meet President Barack Obama's future energy plans as outlined in March of last year.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum sought to distance himself from his GOP opponents with an op-ed tying Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney to radical environmentalists sounding the alarm on climate change.

As GDC 2012 continues, a new SimCity 5 game unveiled with a trailer video Tuesday by EA Maxis, and due to come out in 2013, has been one of the most significant announcements so far.

Sim City is going back to its roots. The classic city building game that first came out in 1989, is returning next year in a new version that has a modern-day look and feel but is being built by those who worked on the original.