global warming

The first solar-powered car to travel around the world ended its journey at the U.N.

A detailed analysis of black carbon -- the residue of burned organic matter -- in computer climate models suggests that those models may be overestimating global warming predictions.

A team of explorers plans to ski to the North and South Poles and climb Mount Everest — all within 365 days and with the goal not to conquer but to protect the ice from global warming.

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The recent commitments on global warming by U.S. President-elect Barack Obama mark a new beginning for world negotiations, the head of the U.N.'s climate change body said Wednesday.

Hollywood insiders and climate change experts agree that they can't shove messages about global warming down audiences' throats.

Researchers have found a way to improve existing estimates of the amount of carbon absorbed by plants from the air, thereby improving the accuracy of global warming and land cover change estimates, according to a new article in Science.

Congress  may not act until 2010 on a bill to limit the heat-trapping gases blamed for global warming despite President-elect Barack Obama's declaration that he will move quickly to address climate change.

Evidence that global warming is causing the worldwide declines of amphibians may not be as conclusive as previously thought, according to biologists.

The findings, which contradict two widely held views, could help reveal what is killing the frogs and toads and aid in their conservation.

For more than a decade, the federal government has spent millions of dollars pumping elevated levels of carbon dioxide into small groups of trees to test how forests will respond to global warming in the next 50 years.