Meltdown in Montana
June 30 — Scientists fear Glacier National Park's glaciers may disappear within 30 years. (Atlanta Journal Constitution)

Students Help Measure Air Pollution
June 27 — Students and teachers at more than 20 Baltimore schools are collecting pollution data to help asthma researchers. (Environmental News Service)

Cheetah Supercomputer Improves Climate Modeling
June 27 — A new computer model doubles the accuracy of climate studies. (Environmental News Service)

Warming Harmful to Public Lands
June 27 — Global warming presents a serious threat to the ecology, economy, wilderness, and recreational opportunities in America's national parks and public lands. (United Press International)

Classic Conditions for El Niño in Tropical Pacific
June 26 — The classic conditions for El Niño, which brings weird weather across the Pacific Ocean and beyond, have formed over the tropical Pacific in recent weeks. (New Scientist)

New Software Helps Satellites Pinpoint Fires Earlier
June 26 — While firefighters from as far away as Alaska are being called in to help fight the fires now consuming the United States' southwest, some of the most crucial assistance remains 23,000 miles away, in orbit. (Space.com)

Successful Satellite Programs Monitor Earth
June 25 — One year after launch, new earth monitoring equipment on a NASA satellite has proven invaluable in its clarity and ability to identify objects on the Earth's surface. (Environmental News Service, Cosmiverse, United Press International)

US Launches Weather Satellite
June 25 — An American weather satellite, dubbed NOAA-M, was launched on Monday from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California. (SpaceDaily)

Aqua Said to Be Alive and Well
June 25 — NASA?s newest Earth Observing System satellite, Aqua, is successfully providing data and engineering images. (SpaceDaily)

Climate Change Linked to Disease Epidemics
June 21 — A warmer world is in all likelihood going to be a sicker world for everything from trees to marine life to people, according to a new report. (BBC News, New Scientist, SpaceDaily)

Major Cities' Heat Leads to Downpour
June 19 — The heat from large southeastern cities leads to more rain downwind of urban centers in the summers, NASA researchers said. (Florida Today, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, UPI, SpaceDaily)

The Greening of the North: Real, and Caused by Climate Change
June 19 — Twenty years of satellite observations have indicated a "greening" trend in northern regions of the northern hemisphere. (SpaceDaily)

Sea Levels to Rise by 0.9 Meters Due to Global Warming
June 19 — Sea Levels will rise by 0.9 meters and many Pacific Islands will simply cease to exist due to global warming in this century. (Xinhua News Agency?China)

China's Deserts Have Grown to Seven Times the Size of Britain
June 18 — Government officials in China are admitting its deserts are growing and are now seven times as big as Britain. (Ananova)

Alaskan Village May Leave En Masse as Temperatures Rise
June 18 — Villagers in a remote part of Alaska could be forced to abandon their homes because of rising temperatures. (New York Times, Ananova)

Global Climate Shift Feeds Spreading Deserts
June 17 — Over the next 20 years some 60 million people in northern Africa are expected to leave the Sahelian region if desertification there is not halted. (Environment News Service)

Air Pollution Affects Tree Growth
June 13 — Carbon dioxide and ozone pollution alter tree growth in northern forests. (Environment News Service)

Antarctic Fringes Vulnerable to Thaw
June 13 — A new report in Science suggests that the ice sheet's edges are most vulnerable to climate warming, and are melting faster than scientists had realized. (MSNBC)

Global Warming Tied to Ozone Recovery
June 12 — Atmospheric Scientists find that climate change may substantially undo international efforts to restore the ozone layer. (Science Now, Environmental News Service)

African Droughts "Triggered by Western Pollution"
June 12 — Emissions spewed out by factories in North America and Europe may have sparked the severe droughts that have afflicted the Sahel region of Africa. (News Scientist)

Warming World in Thin Ice
June 9 — Rapidly melting glaciers threaten death to millions by making huge areas uninhabitable. (The Observer)

Greenland's Warming Ice Flows Faster
June 7 — New measurements by US scientists show that since 1996 the Greenland ice sheet has been moving faster during the summer melting season. (BBC News, New Scientist)

The Global Transport of Dust
June 7 — This feature story discusses how bacteria and fungi have been hitching trans-Atlantic rides on dust from the Saharan desert and settling into the warm waters of the Caribbean. (American Scientist, June issue)

Climate Change May Become Major Player in Ozone Loss
June 6 — While industrial products like chlorofluorocarbons are largely responsible for current ozone depletion, a NASA study finds that by the 2030s climate change may surpass chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) as the main driver of overall ozone loss. (Environmental News Service, ScienceDaily, SpaceDaily, Cosmiverse)

Moderate El Nino to Evolve Through 2002
June 6 — Already wreaking havoc in South America, the El Niño weather phenomenon will slowly develop by year-end and may trigger droughts and floods worldwide, U.S. government weather experts said. (ABC News)

Melting Ice on Mount Everest Is Evidence of Global Warming
June 5 — The amount of ice on and around the world's highest mountain has declined spectacularly, providing startling evidence of the damage caused by global warming, a group of mountaineers to the Himalayas said.

Global Warming? Watch Out California
June 4 — University of California researchers have produced a detailed picture of how the state's climate will change over the next century as a result of global warming. (UPI)

Human Expansion Means Trouble for Penguins
June 4 — Growing global population is making the southern Atlantic Ocean a more popular spot for fishing and oil drilling, but those activities could endanger Falkland Islands penguins. (UPI)

Global Warming Would Help Many U.S. Crops
June 4 — Global warming means that U.S. farms are likely to increase production of soybeans, cotton, sorghum and oranges during the coming decades, according to a new EPA report (Reuters)

Climate Changing, U.S. Says in Report
June 3 — In a stark shift for the Bush Administration, the U.S. has sent a climate report to the United Nations detailing specific and far-reaching effects that it says global warming will inflict on the American environment. (NY Times)

Oceans Losing Oxygen Due to Global Warming
June 3 — The same principle that makes soda pop go flat when heated could be causing the oceans to lose oxygen due to global warming, killing marine organisms in delicate deep-ocean ecosystems. (UPI)

NASA Sensors Find Hiding Pollution
June 2 — NASA and scientists from 10 tropical countries have used balloon-borne sensors to obtain the first picture of the structure of the ozone (pollution) in the tropical troposphere, the atmospheric layer between the surface and 50,000 feet. (Spaceflight Now)

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