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Despite the best efforts of a small handful of climate skeptics who argue that the globe has cooled rather than warmed since the record hot year of 1998, no such cooling trend has taken place.

We can debate the policy of global warming, but we can no longer debate the scientific reality that global warming is hitting us today.

Less than six months after Dick Cheney lost his power position in Washington D.C., federal scientists have re-gained their freedom of speech. Today a...

Americans now believe their individual actions can make a difference for the environment and the health of the ocean. They're ready to act - but they're not sure what to do.

Now, in 2009 we find ourselves at a low point in our ability to monitor the climate from space. It probably won't come as a shock that the scientific community has not endorsed the decline in America's climate monitoring capability.

That an agreement to reduce CO2 concentration levels must be reached is critical to the survival of human civilization as we know it.

As reported in The Environmentalist last April, the Chinook salmon run in the Sacramento River has collapsed.

As Secretary of Commerce, Bill Richardson can position the US as a leader on international ocean issues. He is a big-picture person, someone who understands the global stage.

Pity the poor whale. All it wants is to peacefully swim in the ocean. Instead it finds itself caught up in a net of litigation and rule-making processes.

Palin had opposed the endangered listing for beluga whales in part by questioning the science and saying the listings would hinder oil and natural gas drilling.

MIAMI — Hurricane Bertha strengthened to a Category 3 storm Monday as it swirled in the central Atlantic, but it posed no immediate threat to la...

Congress, candidates and electorate take note: The extreme weather the U.S. has been experiencing is due to climate change and is expected to become more extreme in the future.