Tropical Fish Harvests May Threaten Coral Reefs
September 30, 2003Finding Nemo can be good for impoverished Third World economies, but finding too many of them may threaten sensitive coral reef ecosystems, according to a report released Tuesday by a U.N. agency. (Scripps Howard)
Dust Might Drop
September 26, 2003Model forecasts health benefits and global warming risk if the world is a lot less dusty in the future as it predicts. (Nature News)
Alarm Over Acidifying Oceans
September 25, 2003Climate change may be veering out of control before we understand the consequences, say scientists studying the world's oceans. (NewScientist.com)
Largest Arctic Ice Shelf Breaks Up, Scientists Say
September 24, 2003The largest ice shelf in the Arctic, a solid feature for 3,000 years, has broken up, scientists in the United States and Canada said. (Reuters, CNN.com, BBCNews.com)
After Isabel, Ideas That Protect Lives and Property
September 24, 2003Hurricane Isabel showed people they don't have to live on the ocean's edge to have their lives disrupted by a storm, and leaves some wondering if better technology could reduce the damage from natural disasters. (Scripps Howard)
Scientists See Antarctic Vortex as Drought Maker
September 24, 2003Australia may be facing a permanent drought because of an accelerating vortex of winds whipping around the Antarctic that threatens to disrupt rainfall, scientists said yesterday. (Reuters)
Global warming means Russian winter isn't what it used to be: expert
September 24, 2003Russia's top weather expert Wednesday confirmed what many Muscovites have felt in their bones for several years already: the Russian winter isn't what it used to be. (Terradaily.com)
Doing Science in Isabel's Wake
September 23, 2003Researchers in the eastern United States are cleaning up--and heading into the field--in the wake of last week's Hurricane Isabel. (Science.com)
East Coast Begins Huge Isabel Clean-Up; 26 Dead
September 22, 2003Authorities airlifted relief supplies as communities along the U.S. East Coast began a massive clean-up after Hurricane Isabel on the weekend, but storm victims said it would take months to recover. (Reuters)
Climate Change May Bring 'Supercanes,' Experts Say
September 20, 2003Hurricanes are one of nature's most powerful and frightening storms, but some experts worry that they could become even more fearsome in the decades ahead because of global warming. (Globe and Mail Canada)
Hurricane Isabel Wreaks Havoc on East Coast
September 19, 2003Hurricane Isabel struck the U.S. mid-Atlantic region yesterday with furious winds and torrential rains that cut power, blew roofs off houses, grounded more than 2,000 flights and shut down the federal government in Washington. (Reuters)
Drought-Ravaged Danube Reveals its Metal Graveyard
September 19, 2003The Danube has fallen to its lowest level for more than 120 years, paralysing shipping and at one stretch, between Serbia and Romania, revealing the wrecks of a long-forgotten fleet of World War II German warships. (BBCNews.com)
Indian Ocean's Corals Disappearing
September 19, 2003Several of the Indian Ocean's coral paradises may be wiped out by climate change within the next couple of decades, a study published in the journal Nature said. (DiscoveryChannel.com)
Big Cities Creating 'Huge Tree Deficit'
September 18, 2003U.S. cities have lost more than 20 percent of their trees in the past 10 years, due primarily to urban sprawl and highway construction, an environmental group said this week. (Reuters, CNN.com)
After Pinpoint Tracking, Forecasting Turns to Intensity
September 18, 2003Hurricane Isabel seemingly rolled on tracks laid by government weather forecasters, reflecting advances in computer modeling and growing understanding of such giant storms, but forecasters have been far less successful in predicting the strength of hurricanes. (NYTimes.com)
Past Storms Offer Insights into Isabel's Future
September 16, 2003Although forecasters know that no two hurricanes are exactly alike, they and emergency planners still rely heavily on history to predict the impact of a menace like Isabel. (Scripps Howard)
Workweek Causes Climate Fluctuations
September 16, 2003The five-day workweek may be affecting the climate, researchers say. (ScientificAmerican.com)
Is Tourism Killing the Environment?
September 15, 2003A boom in world tourism is posing a huge threat to some of the planet's most sensitive ecosystems, according to a new study. (CNN.com)
Will Mount Fuji Ever Blow Its Top?
September 12, 2003Five huge explosions rattled the magma dome below Mount Fuji on Thursday as part of an experiment to glean insights into when Japan's most famous volcano might erupt again. (CBSNews.com, NBCNews.com)
Study Finds WTC Fires Spewed Toxic Gases for Weeks
September 12, 2003The burning ruins of the World Trade Center spewed toxic gases "like a chemical factory" for at least six weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks despite government assurances the air was safe, according to a study released. (Reuters, CNN.com, ABCNews.com)
Appalachian Sands Covered N. America
September 12, 2003The vast and mysterious Sahara-like sea of sand that once covered much of western North America came from an Amazon-like river that brought sand from the far-off Appalachians, not the Rockies, geologists said. (DiscoveryChannel.com)
Report: Antarctic Ozone Hole Sets Record
September 12, 2003The gaping, man-made hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica has hit record proportions for this time of year and could get bigger still within the next few days, a leading scientist said on Friday. (CNN.com, ABCNews.com)
Rainy weather after dry days leads to more crashes
September 12, 2003Driving on a rainy day isn't necessarily more deadly than dry days - unless that rainy day comes after a prolonged dry spell, according to a new analysis of traffic fatalities and precipitation records for 25 years. (Scripps Howard, NewScientist.com)
New Global-Warming Study Sets Off Scientific Dispute
September 12, 2003A testy scientific dispute has broken out over a new study indicating significant signs of global warming in the Earth's lower atmosphere. (Wall Street Journal)
Studies Examine Warming of the Earth's Lower Atmosphere
September 11, 2003According to one careful analysis, satellite measurements of the Earth's lower atmosphere don't show any warming. (NPR, Nature)
Huge Climate Experiment Starts Friday - All Welcome.
September 11, 2003A climate prediction experiment which is expected to involve two million people around the world and produce a probable forecast for the 21st century will be launched on Friday. (Reuters, BBC News, NewScientist.com)
Unprecedented Census of the Seas Begins
September 11, 2003 5{ pole, in virtually every ocean, scientists from two dozen nations are wrapping up preliminary field studies. Together the studies will serve as the foundation for the most extensive project of its kind — the Census of Marine Life. (CNN.com)
Killer Sheep Disease Heads North as Climate Warms
September 11, 2003A killer sheep disease as dangerous as foot-and-mouth but previously confined to Africa has jumped into Europe and is heading steadily north as the climate warms, a scientist said this week. (Reuters, BBCNews)
Scientists Warn of Travel Danger to Antarctica
September 11, 2003Although tourism to Antarctica is still small by global standards, it is growing rapidly and scientists said traveling to the region could pose dangers for people and the environment. (Reuters)
Global Warming Blamed as Australia's Biggest City Gets Water Curbs
September 11, 2003Residents of Australia's biggest city, Sydney, were ordered to stop sprinkling their lawns or hosing clean their cars Thursday under strict water curbs local officials blamed on global warming. (Terradaily.com)
Europe Heatwave Brought Record Ozone
September 11, 2003Levels of noxious ground-level ozone reached their highest levels in 10 years in some parts of Europe this summer due to the heatwave in which thousands of people died, the European Commission said. (CNN.com)
Canadian Forest Fires Force More Evacuations
September 11, 2003Nearly 1,000 people in western Canada were forced from their homes in the pre-dawn dark on Sunday as wind threatened to push a wildfire into the outskirts of Kelowna, British Columbia, for the second time in less than three weeks. (Reuters)
Suffocation Suspected for Greatest Mass Extinction
September 11, 2003The oxygen-starved aftermath of an immense global belch of methane left land animals gasping for breath and caused the Earth's largest mass extinction, suggests new research. (NewScientist.com)
Oldest Ever Ice Core Promises Climate Revelations
September 11, 2003Gases and particles trapped in the layers of an ice core provide information about the Earth's climate and atmosphere. (NewScientist.com)
Melting Glaciers Spell Water Crisis
September 11, 2003Temperature changes and lack of snow are causing 90% of the world's glaciers to retreat and some to disappear completely, with potentially catastrophic consequences for communities that rely on the meltwater for irrigation, hydroelectric schemes and drinking, glaciologists agreed yesterday. (The Guardian UK)
Scientists Worry Disappearing Marsh Grasses Are Harbinger Of Coastal Problems
September 11, 2003America is a whole lot more than amber waves of grain, of course, and in many low-lying areas, marshland is the natural environment. But for some strange reason, it's been disappearing. (NBC)
Active Fungus May Affect Global Warming
September 5, 2003Tiny fungi that live under the Rocky Mountain snowpack get busy reproducing in the winter and may affect global warming, U.S. scientists said yesterday. (Reuters, CNN.com)
Biochemistry; Scientists Find Key to Ocean Bacterium that Helps Control Greenhouse Gas
September 5, 2003Scientists are a step closer to understanding how the world's oceans influence global warming, as well supply us with the oxygen we breathe. (Life Science Weekly)
Storms Threaten Bermuda, Florida
September 4, 2003Powerful Hurricane Fabian swept through the Atlantic Ocean toward Bermuda on Wednesday as a new tropical weather system prompted alerts on Florida's Gulf coast. (Reuters, Terradaily.com)
A New Eye on the Storm
September 4, 2003Forecasters say they could be poised for significant gains in their ability to give those affected by tropical cyclones advanced seasonal and even monthly warnings of what an upcoming hurricane season is likely to hold. (Christian Science Monitor)
Kazakhstan's Glaciers 'Melting Fast'
September 4, 2003The political stability of a key central Asian state could be imperilled by climate change, researchers say. (BBCNews.com)
Scientists Face Steamy Mystery
September 4, 2003Unlike Old Faithful, Yellowstone's Steamboat geyser is anything but predictable. It's gone as few as four days and as many as 50 years between major eruptions, but recent eruptions have scientists scratching their heads. (CBSNews.com)
Earth Hits '2,000-Year Warming Peak'
September 4, 2003The Earth appears to have been warmer since 1980 than at any time in the last 18 centuries, scientists say. (BBCNews.com)
South China Hit by Worst Typhoon for 24 Years
September 3, 2003At least 23 people are reported to have died and 100 injured as typhoon Dujuan roared into the China's southern Guangdong province. (Newscientist.com, Terradaily.com)
Saving Forests Best Way to Cheap, Clean Water
September 3, 2003Major cities should focus efforts and funds on conserving forests which naturally purify their drinking water, saving them from spending billions of dollars on water treatment facilities, a study published this week showed. (CNN.com)
Using the Largest Living Land Mammal to Calculate Cloud Mass
September 3, 2003Ever wonder how much a cloud weighs? What about a hurricane? A meteorologist has done some estimates and the results might surprise you. (ABCNews.com)