Global warming and changing climatic conditions are triggering disease epidemics in wildlife around the world, reports a renowned team of ecologists and epidemiologists in the Friday June 21st issue of Science. (Seaweb release)

Spotting forest fires in remote areas will be faster and easier this summer as fire-weather forecasters begin using a new technique that automatically detects wildfires in environmental satellite imagery.

Unusual weather across most of the United States last winter created huge and generally positive impacts to the nation's struggling economy. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign release)

Although some acid rain-battered trees get needed calcium via fungi on their roots, forests are still endangered by other effects of acid rain, ecologists say. (Cornell University release)

A new study in Wisconsin and Minnesota wetlands shows that ultraviolet radiation could be responsible for strange deformities in amphibian populations. (American Chemical Society release)

An international group of researchers are finding that carbon dioxide and ozone dramatically alter tree growth. (University of Wisconsin release)

New research provides striking evidence that sunspots do influence global climate change, but that explosive volcanic eruptions on Earth can completely reverse those influences. (State University of New York - University at Buffalo release)

Researchers have produced a detailed picture of how California's climate is likely to change within the next 50 to 100 years as a result of global warming. (University of California?Santa Cruz release)

Fishing and oil exploration in the southern Atlantic could prove detrimental to Falklands penguins, whose numbers already could be declining. (University of Washington release)

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified specific volatile organic compounds (VOCs) as key sources of excess ozone smog in industrial areas of Houston, Texas. (U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory release)

The catastrophic flooding in Jakarta in February this year could have been predicted nearly 3 weeks in advance with a new technique. (International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme release)