GLOBAL WARMING

Former Vice President Al Gore issued a scathing attack against the discourse surrounding climate change and criticized President Barack Obama for failing to take a stronger stance on the issue, in an essay Gore wrote for Rolling Stone magazine.

South Pacific island country once had 2nd highest per-capita GDP in the world; today, 90% are unemployed and most live on less than 100 dollars a week

The sun may be heading for a rest period as the sunspot cycle seems to be fading and entering towards its maximum, and there are indications of weakening magnetic activity near the poles.

The weakening activity and fading sunspots in the sun and the activated volcanoes suggest that history truly repeats itself - the Little Ice Age is coming back.

The sun is most likely going into hibernation as the latest unusual solar readings, including fading sunspots and weakening magnetic activity near the poles suggest that we are headed towards a solar event that hasn't happened in hundreds of years, according to new data released Tuesday at the annual meeting of the solar physics division of the American Astronomical Society in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

The propeller plane is powered by four electric motors and is the first plane which can fly day and night without requiring fuel and with zero carbon emissions.

New data released Tuesday at the annual meeting of the solar physics division of the American Astronomical Society in Las Cruces, New Mexico, may suggest that we are headed towards a solar event that hasn’t happened in hundreds of years.

Jolie looks totally in her element when posing in Cambodia for the Louis Vuitton campaign.

An unusual demonstration took place in the L.A. headquarters of Mattel, the American toy company that manufactures the famous Barbie doll, with members of the environmental group 'Green Peace' protesting against the wrapping of the Barbie doll that, allegedly, is linked to the destruction of tropical rain forests.

Rick Santorum said global warming is a “patently absurd” idea. Santorum is a former Senator from Pennsylvania and a 2012 presidential hopeful.

In GOP circles, what he said was akin to an act of treason. Mitt Romney, the latest Republican to declare his candidacy for the presidency in 2012, said Friday that global warming is, indeed, real.

Twisters have swept across the U.S., killing 314 in Alabama, 134 in Missouri, and 4 so far in Massachusetts in the last couple of months. Why so many tornadoes?

Carbon output skyrocketed to its highest recorded level thanks to a five percent increase from 2009 to 2010, the International Energy Agency said.

People base their thoughts on global warming based on the current temperature.

Documents released Friday by the Nixon Presidential Library show members of President Richard Nixon’s inner circle discussing the possibilities of global warming more than 30 years ago, The Associated Press reported.

Perceived earlier as a warning sign for climate change, the floating icebergs in Antarctic Southern Ocean are found to be helping the sea take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, a new study has revealed.

NASA has released breathtaking photos of the earth in honor of Earth Day, here are ten of the best.

Natural gas extracted from shale formations has a greater greenhouse gas footprint - in the form of methane emissions - than conventional gas, oil and coal over a 20 year period. This calls into question the logic of its use as a climate-friendly alternative to fossil fuels, says a new study.

In yet another example of eco-tourism initiatives driving the tourism industry worldwide, Philadelphia Zoo, America's first zoo, will begin with 25 Percent of electricity usage offset by Renewable Energy Certificates.

The colour of the environment is changing – becoming bluer – apparently due to climate change, says a new study that finds that environment and animal populations are fluctuating more rapidly over time. The change that could have important implications for animals' risk of becoming extinct, ecologists have found.

A study in Nature Climate Change from the Institute for Atmospheric Physics at the German Aerospace Centre may show that contrails have just as large an effect as carbon dioxide on climate.