Science and Nature

Hurricane Stan leaves 300,000 needing help in Mexico BY SUSANA HAYWARD Knight Ridder Newspapers MEXICO CITY - (KRT) - Rescuers with emergency supplies of food and water can't reach more than 300,000 people in mountainous regions of Mexico's Chiapas state...

Scientists report further evidence of global warming BY CURTIS MORGAN Knight Ridder Newspapers MIAMI - (KRT) - Scientists analyzing two decades of satellite data have confirmed an atmospheric spike in a prime fuel behind global warming, according to a...

Warmest summer in 400 yrs: NASA NEW YORK: Caught in a "vicious" circle of global warming, the polar ice pack has shrunk by 30 per cent since 1978 and melting is speeding up causing the warmest summer in 400 years, an yet to be released NASA report said....

Heatwave makes plants warm planet By Richard Black Environment Correspondent, BBC News website A new study shows that during the 2003 heatwave, European plants produced more carbon dioxide than they absorbed from the atmosphere. They produced nearly a...

Global warming, eroding glaciers alarm Greenlanders By Jan M. Olsen The Associated Press ILULISSAT, Greenland — The gargantuan chunks of ice breaking off the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier and thundering into an Arctic fjord make a spectacular sight. But to...

A dog stands on a flooded street of the ninth area in New Orleans September 18, 2005. The death toll from Hurricane Katrina climbed to 883 on Sunday after Louisiana officials raised the number of confirmed fatalities in that state to 646, up from 579...

The number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes worldwide has nearly doubled over the past 35 years. Image courtesy Peter Webster/Georgia Tech

Hurricanes are getting stronger, study says The number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes worldwide has nearly doubled over the past 35 years, even though the total number of hurricanes has dropped since the 1990s, according to a study by researchers at the...

Miami-Dade rescuers feed water to a dog belonging to 39-year-old Reyne Johnson, who was freed from his home in New Orleans Parish, in New Orleans , September 18, 2005. Johnson, afraid to come out of his home, had been holed up with his dog since Hurricane...