Environmental damage seen from shuttle By Jeff Franks HOUSTON (Reuters) - Commander Eileen Collins said astronauts on shuttle Discovery had seen widespread environmental destruction on Earth and warned on Thursday that greater care was needed to protect...

Wildfires rage across parched , three villages evacuated LISBON (AFP) - Nearly 2,800 firefighters battled 31 blazes which raged out of control across drought-hit , forcing the evacuation of three central villages and the closure of several roads, emergency...

Fluctuations of Glaciers’ Report Launched Geneva , 3 August 2005 - Supported by UNEP and other agencies, the World Glacier Monitoring Service has launched the next edition of the Fluctuations of Glaciers report (1995-2000). The series ‘Fluctuations of...

Government forecasts more hurricanes this year By Christopher Doering WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season will be worse than previously expected, with as many as 21 tropical storms and 11 hurricanes, the U.S. government predicted...

Killer dunes Sonja van Renssen Climate change is likely to “activate” sand dunes across Southern Africa , with potentially disastrous consequences, report researchers in the journal Nature . As the Kalahari desert gets hotter and drier in the 21st century,...

Loss of wolves changes Canadian ecosystem – study By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The loss of once-plentiful wolves in a part of 's west allowed the elk population to mushroom, pushing out beavers and songbirds and...

Artic depths teeming with life, say explorers By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - The remotest depths of the Arctic are surprisingly full of life, including species of jellyfish and worms believed to be previously unknown, explorers who just finished...

Fast-moving glaciers surprise research team By CLARKE CANFIELD, Associated Press Two University of Maine scientists studying the effects of climate change in the Arctic have discovered that two glaciers in Greenland are moving at a not-so-glacial pace....

Global Warming Making Hurricanes Stronger Is global warming making hurricanes more ferocious? New research suggests the answer is yes. Scientists call the findings both surprising and "alarming" because they suggest global warming is influencing storms...