CLIMATE CHANGE

Google launched a homepage for a new science and technology conference it will be hosting, Solve For X. The conference was announced in a 53-second video that reveals very few details about how the conference will operate; however, a CSS workaround has revealed more information about hidden aspects of the website and how the conference will operate.

A recent discovery of 30,000 years old bison bones at a Canadian goldmine have unraveled the mystery of climate change adaptation and are helping scientists understand how animals adapt to rapid environmental changes.

Sea cucumbers can save coral reefs from the impact of ocean acidification on their growth, a group of scientists working on the impact of climate change on coral reefs have revealed in a recent study.

Hayhoe said she has received threatening and intimidating e-mails after a conservative blogger posted her e-mail address on his Web site.

When severe snowstorms prevented life-sustaining fuel supplies from reaching the frozen Alaskan town of Nome, U.S. officials turned to a Russian company for help.

Pollsters who used dial meters to track voters' reaction to the State of the Union said President Obama's call to invest in renewable energy received one of the most positive reactions of the night.

“The most profitable corporations in the world do not need subsidies from the American people, Sanders said Tuesday at a Capitol Hill rally.

A weaker sun over the next 90 years is not likely to significantly delay a rise in global temperature caused by greenhouse gases, a report said Monday.

The global average temperature last year was the ninth-warmest in the modern meteorological record, continuing a trend linked to greenhouse gases that saw nine of the 10 hottest years occurring since the year 2000, NASA scientists said on Thursday.

The propaganda around the GOP presidential race is becoming more or less an attack on progressivism, which is a clear indication of the pathetic state of politics, in general, in the U.S.

Although several studies indicate Fox News viewers are among the least informed, Americans still trust it more than any other news network.

Scientists have always known about invisible molecules called Criegee biradicals in the atmosphere, but now they know how they react with pollutants.

2012 will likely prove to become another banner year of Hollywood destructo-flicks as doomsday predictors countdown to Dec. 21 - when conspiracy theorists claim the end of the Mayan calendar will coincide with end of days.

The symbolic Doomsday Clock calculated by a group of scientists was moved a minute closer to midnight on Tuesday, with the group citing inadequate progress on nuclear weapons reduction and climate change.

The Doomsday Clock, a symbolic measure of how near the human species is to self-destruction, probably as a result of nuclear weapons programs or climate change, was adjusted, on Jan. 9, to five minutes to midnight - or doomsday!

High levels of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere mean the next ice age is unlikely to begin for at least 1,500 years, an article in the journal Nature Geoscience said on Monday.

Fidel Castro said Thursday the world was on an inexorable march toward the abyss, which he blamed in part on the discovery and exploitation of vast reserves of so-called shale gas around the world.

Some things haven't changed since 2008: for the second time, the largest newspaper in Massachusetts has endorsed someone other than former Gov. Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination.

The former Utah governor Jon Huntsman has put all of his campaign eggs in New Hampshire, hoping for a positive outcome in the state's primary next Tuesday. Despite languishing in the polls, Huntsman has made over 150 appearances in the Granite State, which he hopes will pay off and catapult him into the new Republican of Choice -- with Rick Santorum's success serving as the model.

The world’s first hybrid shark was discovered off the coast of Australia, researchers from the University of Queensland said on Tuesday.

Hundreds of herring fish, about 20 tons, washed up dead on a beach at Kvennes in Nordreisa, northern Norway.