An unusual sight livened the sunset for scientists working in one of the coldest places on Earth—a rare nacreous cloud, which form only at extremely icy temperatures.
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Global warming may be a worldwide buzz kill, but it hasn't stopped canny entrepreneurs from launching a new beer brewed with water melted from Greenland's ice cap.
Many Atlantic hurricanes begin as storms off the coast of Africa. But most of these thunderstorms fizzle out long before becoming dangerous, and scientists want to know why.
A warm spell 55 million years ago created leafy land bridges that the world's first primates used to spread from Asia to North America, a new study shows.
It's a safe bet that global warming is causing more heat waves, climate experts say. But it's difficult to link any specific event, such as this year's extreme temperatures, to climate change, they caution.
The widely banned pesticide could make a comeback as global health organizations endorse its use in the fight to save millions of people threatened by malaria.
Even limited logging in the Amazon often leads to entire swaths of rain forest being completely cleared, according to the first-ever broad-scale study of logging in the region.
An Israeli air strike on a Lebanese power plant dumped tons of oil into the sea in what green groups are calling the worst environmental crisis in Lebanon's history.
If you think you know the meaning of "night life," then you haven't gone scuba diving off the Florida Keys after dark. Join divers as they take in the evening show that is the ocean at night.
A new study reports that the much loved landscapes of Yellowstone, Yosemite, and ten other U.S. national parks are at grave risk due to climate change.
Unusually large numbers of dolphins and whales are appearing off the eastern coast of Scotland, where scientists believe the animals have followed their prey to cooler waters.
Weather expert says historical satellite data is too crude to make a connection between climate change and the onset of more intense hurricanes in recent years.
