Global Warming
Warm water quickens melting of Antarctic ice
WASHINGTON -- Antarctica's massive ice shelves are shrinking because they are being eaten away from below by warm water, a new study finds. That suggests that future sea levels could rise faster than many scientists have been predicting.
Date: 04/26/2012 | Nation & World
Birdwatcher with a purpose
Edmonds ecologist sees changes in local bird numbers
Date: 04/19/2012 | Local News
Warm March across U.S. shatters records
WASHINGTON -- The weird warmth of March brought out the tank tops and shorts in many parts of the country. In fact, it was the warmest March on record for the Lower 48 states dating back to when records began in 1895.
Date: 04/13/2012 | Nation & World
Conservatives have lost faith in science, study shows
As the Republican presidential race has shown, the conservatives who dominate the primaries are deeply skeptical of science -- making Newt Gingrich, for one, regret he ever settled onto a couch with Nancy Pelosi to chat about global warming.
Date: 03/29/2012 | Nation & World
Most U.S. states are basking in warmth
WASHINGTON -- At least it's a dry heat.The federal government's spring weather forecast offers no respite from warmer weather, but the country should get a break from the spring flooding that's hit the last four years.
Date: 03/15/2012 | Nation & World
Rising sea levels threaten more of U.S.
WASHINGTON -- Nearly 4 million people across the United States, from Los Angeles to much of the East Coast, live in homes more prone to flooding from rising seas fueled by global warming, according to a new method of looking at flood risk published in two scientific papers.
Date: 03/15/2012 | Nation & World
Pacific nation may buy Fiji land as climate refuge
Fearing that climate change could wipe out their entire Pacific archipelago, the leaders of Kiribati are considering an unusual backup plan: moving the populace to Fiji.
Date: 03/10/2012 | Business
Poll: Americans' belief in global warming rises with thermometer
WASHINGTON -- Americans' belief in global warming is on the rise, along with temperatures and surprising weather changes, according to a new university poll.
Date: 02/29/2012 | Nation & World
Many areas of the U.S. have the winter that wasn't
The temperature in Minneapolis didn't fall to zero degrees this winter until Jan. 12. On Jan. 5, the daytime high in Rapid City, S.D. (a record-setting 71 degrees) was higher than in balmy Miami (69 degrees). And just a couple of days before New Year's, visitors to Park City, Utah, skied on...
Date: 01/28/2012 | Nation & World
New California rules will require cleaner cars
LOS ANGELES -- California, long a national leader in cutting auto pollution, pushed the envelope further Friday as state regulators approved rules to cut greenhouse gas emissions from cars and put significantly more pollution-free vehicles on the road in coming years.
Date: 01/27/2012 | Nation & World
New map for gardeners reflects global warming
WASHINGTON -- Global warming is hitting not just home, but the garden. The color-coded map of planting zones often seen on the back of seed packets is being updated by the government, illustrating a hotter 21st century.
Date: 01/26/2012 | Nation & World
World not quite as hot in 2011; year ranks as 11th warmest
WASHINGTON — The world last year wasn't quite as warm as it has been for most of the past decade, government scientists said Thursday, but it continues a general trend of rising temperatures.
Date: 01/19/2012 | Nation & World
EPA says power plants main global warming culprits
WASHINGTON -- The most detailed data yet on emissions of heat-trapping gases show that U.S. power plants are responsible for the bulk of the pollution blamed for global warming.
Date: 01/11/2012 | Business
U.S. airlines lose carbon 'tax' dispute with Europe
AMSTERDAM — U.S. airlines failed Wednesday to block an EU law charging airlines flying to Europe for their carbon pollution. The decision by an EU court was widely hailed by environmentalists but the Fitch ratings agency said it raised the specter of a global trade dispute.
Date: 12/22/2011 | Nation & World
Climate delegates reach a deal on global warming
DURBAN, South Africa — A U.N. climate conference reached a hard-fought agreement Sunday on a far-reaching program meant to set a new course for the global fight against climate change.
Date: 12/11/2011 | Nation & World
Climate conference reaches a deal on global warming
DURBAN, South Africa — A U.N. climate conference reached a hard-fought agreement Sunday on a far-reaching program meant to set a new course for the global fight against climate change.
Date: 12/09/2011 | Nation & World
National interests clash as climate talks near end
DURBAN, South Africa — As a global climate conference enters the home stretch, it's likely that the 194 nations represented will reach some consensus on how to respond to the emissions that are warming the planet. But details on how tough those measures will be remain buried under a sea of...
Date: 12/08/2011 | Nation & World
Europe berates U.S., China for blocking climate talks
DURBAN, South Africa — Tempers flared Wednesday over the glacial pace of progress in climate talks taking place in Durban, with the European Union berating the United States and China for blocking the way forward.
Date: 12/07/2011 | Nation & World
University hit by new leak ahead of global warming talks
LONDON — The British university whose stolen emails caused a global climate science controversy in 2009 says those behind the breach have apparently released a second and potentially far larger batch of old messages.
Date: 11/22/2011 | Nation & World
Charging into the future
PUD workshop shows growing potential for electric cars
Date: 10/29/2011 | Local News
Study blames global warming for shrinking size of some animals and plants
WASHINGTON -- From the mighty polar bear to the tiny house sparrow, many of Earth's species appear to be shrinking in individual size, a new study reports. And the authors think it's probably caused by global warming.
Date: 10/16/2011 | Nation & World
Al Gore: Climate change to blame for recent disasters
DETROIT -- Former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore was unbowed and unrepentant Thursday in blaming recent storms, droughts and wildfires on climate change.
Date: 10/14/2011 | Nation & World
Video: 700 arrested after protest on Brooklyn Bridge
NEW YORK — More than 700 protesters demonstrating against corporate greed, global warming and social inequality, among other grievances, were arrested Saturday after they swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge and shut down a lane of traffic for several hours in a tense confrontation with police.
Date: 10/02/2011 | Nation & World
Arctic sea ice shrinks to second lowest level
WASHINGTON — Arctic sea ice melted this summer to the second lowest level since record-keeping began more than 50 years ago, scientists reported Thursday, mostly blaming global warming.
Date: 09/15/2011 | Nation & World
Jon Huntsman turns to Twitter to criticize Perry
SALT LAKE CITY — Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman on Thursday turned to Twitter to attack a rival, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, for his positions on evolution and climate change.
Date: 08/19/2011 | Nation & World
Critters move north, away from global warming
WASHINGTON — Animals across the world are fleeing global warming by heading north much faster than they were less than a decade ago, a new study says.
Date: 08/18/2011 | Nation & World
Scientists put half the blame for Arctic ice melt on human activity
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- About half the recent record loss of Arctic sea ice can be blamed on global warming caused by human activity, according to a new study by scientists from the nation's leading climate research center.
Date: 08/15/2011 | Nation & World
Britain: University must share global warming data
LONDON — The British university at the center of the "Climategate" affair must allow independent researchers access to its closely guarded archive of global temperature records, Britain's information watchdog has ruled — a postscript to the scandal which rocked the world of climate...
Date: 07/01/2011 | Nation & World
Warmer is the new normal for U.S., NOAA says
LOS ANGELES — The new normal is warmer.That's the assessment of the nation's top weather agency, which releases data Friday that show the 30-year "normal" temperature in the United States.
Date: 06/29/2011 | Nation & World
Whales, plankton migrate across Northwest Passage
AMSTERDAM -- When a 43-foot gray whale was spotted off the Israeli town of Herzliya last year, scientists came to a startling conclusion: it must have wandered across the normally icebound route above Canada, where warm weather had briefly opened a clear channel three years earlier.
Date: 06/26/2011 | Nation & World
Deaths from heat waves will rise in Europe eventually as effects of global warming grow
WASHINGTON -- A new study says one of the few benefits of global warming -- fewer deaths from the combination of extreme heat and cold -- may eventually melt away in Europe.
Date: 06/21/2011 | Nation & World
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