Environmental News Network

Report Says ExxonMobil Cultivates Global Warming Doubt
Energy giant ExxonMobil borrowed tactics from the tobacco industry to raise doubt about climate change, spending $16 million on groups that question global warming, a science watchdog group said Wednesday. >> Read the Full Article
Scientists Say 2007 May Be Warmest Yet
A resurgent El Nino and persistently high levels of greenhouse gases are likely to make 2007 the world's hottest year ever recorded, British climate scientists said Thursday. >> Read the Full Article
China Report Warns of Agriculture Problems from Climate Change
Climate change will harm China's ecology and economy in the coming decades, possibly causing large drops in agricultural output, said a government report made public Wednesday. >> Read the Full Article
Researchers Say Warming May Change Amazon
Global warming could spell the end of the world's largest remaining tropical rain forest, transforming the Amazon into a grassy savanna before end of the century, researchers said. >> Read the Full Article
Taiwan Quake Shakes Confidence in Undersea Links
The earthquakes that hit Taiwan on Tuesday rocked communications in Asia and underscored the vulnerabilities of a system where huge amounts of data speed through the region in cables laid deep beneath the sea. >> Read the Full Article
Scientists Work on Map of Climate Change
Scientists in Antarctica spent Christmas Day finishing work that may show the effects of global warming -- drilling for clues about how massive ice sheets responded to past temperature changes. >> Read the Full Article
China Fears Disasters, Grain Cut from Global Warming
Global warming threatens to intensify natural disasters and water shortages across China, driving down the country's food output, the Chinese government has warned, even as its seeks to tame energy consumption. >> Read the Full Article
Norway Wants U.S. Politicians to See Warming Arctic
Norway will invite U.S. politicians to visit a group of fast-thawing Arctic islands in 2007, hoping to win converts for tougher action against global warming, its foreign minister says. >> Read the Full Article
Warmer Winters Change Washington Foliage
Fifteen years of warm winter weather is beginning to change the Washington area's landscape -- with Southern species like crape myrtles having an easier time and northern types feeling less welcome, according to findings by the National Arbor Day Foundation. >> Read the Full Article
Study Links Fires to Ocean Temperatures
Using fire scars on nearly 5,000 tree stumps dating back 450 years, scientists have found that extended periods of major wildfires in the West occurred when the North Atlantic Ocean was going through periodic warming. >> Read the Full Article