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Climate October 20, 2015

Polar bears on Google Maps! Street View comes to the Arctic

Google Street View has taken viewers to the Amazon, the Galapagos, and now, the Canadian Arctic the home of polar bears.

Southeast October 20, 2015

Winter storm battering southeast seen from space

An Earth-watching satellite has spotted the latest winter storm threatening to paralyze the southeastern United States.

Climate October 20, 2015

Scientists accidentally capture ball lightning

For decades such unidentified flying objects have simply been dismissed as optical illusions or "swamp gas." Now science has no excuse. Mysterious ball lightning has been captured on scientific equipment -- albeit by accident.

Climate October 20, 2015

CNN anchor questions whether global warming to blame for asteroid

The threat of global warming may stretch so far beyond Earth that it affects meteorites millions of miles away in space -- at least according to one CNN anchor.

Climate October 20, 2015

Report shows UN admitting solar activity may play significant role in global warming

The Earth has been getting warmer -- but how much is due to greenhouse gas emissions, and how much is due to natural causes?

Climate October 20, 2015

Draft UN climate report shows 20 years of overestimated global warming, skeptics warn

A preliminary draft of a report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was leaked to the public earlier this month, and climate skeptics say it contains new evidence that IPCC models have overestimated global warming from 1990 to 2011.

Climate October 20, 2015

Three Canadians killed in Antarctica plane crash

Three Canadians were killed in Antarctica after their plane crashed last week into the freezing cold and hurricane force winds of the icy continent, the National Science Foundation confirmed Monday.

Climate October 20, 2015

Greenhouse gases hit a record high in 2011, UN agency says

Earth averaged 390 parts per million of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, up 40 percent from before the Industrial Age when levels were about 275 parts per million. 

Biology October 20, 2015

University of Michigan program aims to bolster scientific basis of Great Lakes cleanup effort

The University of Michigan is establishing a research program designed to make sure the federal government bases decisions in its billion-dollar battle to clean up the Great Lakes on solid scien...

Climate October 20, 2015

Climate scientist Michael Mann sues over comparison to child molester

Climate scientist Michael Mann has filed a defamation lawsuit against skeptics at the National Review and the Competitive Enterprise Institute over a comparison to convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky.

Climate October 16, 2015

Monster El Nino expected to shape this winter's weather

NOAA's winter outlook is predicting warmer-than-average weather to the West and wetter conditions down South