Scientists report that a new study shows the climate will change more than ever during the next 100 years. (Max Planck Society press release)

The first high-resolution continuous record of oxygen concentration in the Earth's atmosphere shows that a sharp rise in oxygen about 50 million years ago gave mammals the evolutionary boost they needed to dominate the planet, researchers say. (Rutgers University press release)

A study that applied innovative techniques to previously unexamined rock formations has turned up strong evidence on the "Slushball Earth" side of a decades-long scientific argument. (University of Southern California press release)

The European Space Agency's CryoSat spacecraft will be launched next week and promises to measure the ice at the Earth's poles with previously unattained accuracy. (European Space Agency press release)

Important clues to the environment in which the early Earth formed may be emerging from Purdue University scientists' recent study of a particular class of meteorites. (Purdue University press release)

A group of researchers has developed a three-dimensional computer program to model water levels and flow. (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill press release)

Lakes and wetlands in the Kenai Peninsula of south-central Alaska are drying at a significant rate. The shift seems to be driven by climate change, scientists say. (National Research Council of Canada press release)

The Natural Disaster Hotspots report released earlier this year showed that the U.S. Gulf Coast is among the world's most at-risk regions in terms of human mortality and economic loss due to storms like Katrina and Rita. (The Earth Institute at Columbia University press release)

As Hurricane Rita entered the Gulf of Mexico, ESA's Envisat satellite was able to pierce through swirling clouds to show how the storm churned the sea surface. (European Space Agency press release)

A new study shows dramatic summer warming in arctic Alaska, where a longer snow-free season has strongly contributed to atmospheric heating. (University of Alaska-Fairbanks press release)

An e-Science project is enabling the use of near real-time Met Office forecasts to predict the drift of a person who has fallen overboard. (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council press release)

The impact of global warming on European weather patterns has been underestimated, according to a new report. (University of East Anglia press release)

An advanced research weather model is following Hurricane Rita to give scientists a taste of how well forecast models of the future may predict hurricane track, intensity, and important rain and wind features. (National Center for Atmospheric Research press release)

Leading scientists have agreed to an action plan intended to save hundreds of frogs, salamanders and other amphibians facing extinction from familiar threats such as pollution and habitat destruction, as well as a little-known fungus wiping out their populations. (Conservation International press release)

Although broken sewers and flooded industrial plants contributed to poisoning the waters after hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, another pollution source is toxins common in most urban environments that made their way en masse into the water as it stagnated atop the city. (University of Florida press release)

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina -- probably the greatest natural disaster in U.S. history -- a leading ecologist says that one of the best things that could happen to New Orleans and the rest of southern Louisiana and Mississippi would be more rain. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill press release)

A Category 4 hurricane could cause a storm surge of as much as 25 feet in Tampa Bay, according to a University of Central Florida researcher who is looking at the risks Florida cities face from tidal surges and flooding. (University of Central Florida press release)

The number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes worldwide has nearly doubled over the past 35 years, even though the total number of hurricanes has dropped since the 1990s, according to a new study. (National Center for Atmospheric Research press release)

As Hurricane Ophelia is set to make landfall on the North Carolina coast, analysis techniques developed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Tropical Cyclones group are helping to predict the anticipated path of the storm. (University of Wisconsin-Madison press release)

A University of Cincinnati team is interviewing Alaskan Inupiaq elders and working with them as partners in order to better understand and predict future environmental changes for all of us. (University of Cincinnati press release)

Researchers with the Dartmouth Flood Observatory have been working to help map and analyze the flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. (Dartmouth College press release)

A team of scientists is conducting a three-day planning simulation at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California, to prepare for a complex experiment that will result in the most detailed data sets ever collected for tropical convection. (Department of Energy/Sandia National Laboratories press release)

A new website with a Global Information System will provide valuable information for assessing environmental hazards caused by Hurricane Katrina. (NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences press release)

Humans have been tinkering with greenhouse gas levels in Earth's atmosphere for at least 2,000 years and probably longer, according to a new study of methane trapped in Antarctic ice cores conducted by an international research team. (University of Colorado at Boulder press release)

An Earth System model developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign indicates that the best location to store carbon dioxide in the deep ocean will change with climate change. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign press release)

Indiana University School of Informatics researchers are part of a national team devising technology that more accurately predicts and tracks large-scale weather events such as Hurricane Katrina. (Indiana University press release)

Warming in the Arctic is stimulating the growth of vegetation and could affect the delicate energy balance there, causing an additional climate warming of several degrees over the next few decades. (American Geophysical Union press release)

Recent research results from scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center suggest that 'greening' has begun to decline in the high latitude forested areas of North America. (Woods Hole Research Center press release)

Paved roads and parking spaces come in handy for our nation's drivers, but they also come with a serious unforeseen cost--the degradation of freshwater ecosystems. (Institute of Ecosystem Studies press release)

About 86 percent of oil production in the Gulf of Mexico and 59 percent of the natural gas output is being disrupted by Hurricane Katrina, according to a new prediction model. (University of Central Florida press release)

Despite having to evade Hurricane Katrina, a team of scientists is returning to port with new tales from the deep sea after completing their second annual Deep Scope expedition. (Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution press release)

China's spectacular economic growth during the last decade has brought many benefits--and some challenges, shows satellite data from the European Space Agency. (European Space Agency press release)

Biologists present strong evidence that a lethal outbreak of needle blight that is killing lodgepole pines in British Columbia is caused by climate change. (American Institute of Biological Sciences press release)