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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.

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

October 15, 2015

Obama 'took the wrong side' on climate change, says physicist Freeman Dyson

Theoretical physicist and Democrat voter Freeman Dyson has expressed his disappointment with President Obama’s stance on climate change.

October 8, 2015

NOAA: Coral bleaching has gone global for the third time ever

The alert comes after forecaster spotted bleaching in Hawaii and then determined it was spreading to the Caribbean

July 31, 2015

The great Lima climate change shakedown

The global warming brigades from around the world gathered last week at a United Nations climate change conference in Lima to save the planet. The nations from across the planet were supposed to link hands and all would agree to slash their green house gas emissions. Instead the conference was a complete dud.

May 6, 2015

Happy Earth Day 2015: The Earth is doing just fine, thank you

Wednesday, April 22 is Earth Day. To hear the experts like Usher and Al Gore tell the story, the planet is in a miserable state. But they're wrong. Here are the factual realities that we should be celebrating on Earth Day..

January 13, 2015

Half of Great Barrier Reef has vanished, study finds

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is a glittering gem — the world's largest coral reef ecosystem — chock-full of diverse marine life. But new research shows it is also in steep decline.

January 13, 2015

Amazing red-dust storm strikes Western Australia

Australians witnessed an eye-popping event: a red-dust storm choked skies ahead of a tropical cyclone, a phenomenon known as a "haboob" by meteorologists. See more pictures of the storm at Perth Weather Live.  

January 13, 2015

40 years of photos show our changing planet

The surface of the Earth is always changing -- and the Landsat series of Earth-observing satellites has been watching the planet change since 1972. These satellite images show some of the remarkable transformation over the past 40 years. See more at the EarthShots site.

November 20, 2014

Rare 'fire devil' caught on film

Nature's not much for subtlety. Just ask Chris Tangey, who watched in awe as a 100-foot-high whirlwind of fire tore around a patch of Australian outback Tuesday Sept. 11.