Climate Change Weather

Will The Smoky Mountains Stay 'Smoky'?

Posted 04.28.2012

By Douglas M. Main, OurAmazingPlanet Contributor The shroud that envelopes the Great Smoky Mountains isn't actually smoke, it's a mist of wate...

Seen From Space: Climate Change Brings Early Spring

Posted 04.23.2012

By OurAmazingPlanet Staff: With the onset of spring comes first the buds on trees and then the riot of green leaves, which is so pervasive it c...

Manmade Global Warming-Weather Link Builds

Reuters | Posted 05.26.2012

* Extreme rainfall, heatwaves linked to global warming * Relationship between storms and warming less clear By Nina Ches...

Mankind Reportedly Kept Temperatures At Record Levels

Reuters | Posted 05.23.2012

* Warming may have "irreversible impact" * U.S. tornado season one of the worst on record * Arctic sea ice volume at rec...

From the Indus to the Mississippi, Climate Change Touches Us All

Asif Iqbal | Posted 03.13.2012

Asif Iqbal

Around the world, wherever you are, chances are good that you have lived through your own weather disaster. And if not, you may soon.

Nature Unleashed: Wild Weather January 2012

Dr. Reese Halter | Posted 03.12.2012

Dr. Reese Halter

As of January 10, 2012 only 14.7 percent of the U.S. was covered by snow compared to 61.7 percent at the same time last year.

Latin America Battling Wildfires, Floods, Droughts

AP | By CESAR GARCIA and IAN JAMES | Posted 01.06.2012

CHIA, Colombia -- From Chile to Colombia to Mexico, Latin America has been battered recently by wildfires, floods and droughts. For many witnessing t...

World Environment Day and Global Consumption - We Use, They Lose

John DeCock | Posted 05.25.2011

John DeCock

Our lifestyles, our consumption patterns, the way we use resources, the waste we generate and the way we deal with our waste are all major contributing factors in the degradation of our environment.

Iowa Flooding Could Be An Act of Man

Washington Post | Joel Achenbach | Posted 05.25.2011

As the Cedar River rose higher and higher, and as he stacked sandbags along the levee protecting downtown Cedar Falls, Kamyar Enshayan, a college prof...