October 20, 2015 UN scientific panel says ozone levels increasing Earth's protective ozone layer is beginning to recover, largely because of the phase-out since the 1980s of certain chemicals used in refrigerants and aerosol cans, a U.N. scientific panel reported Wednesday in a rare piece of good news about the health of the planet.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.Â
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...