Finding 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)
Model forecasts health benefits and global warming risk if the world is a lot less dusty in the future as it predicts. (Nature News)
Climate change may be veering out of control before we understand the consequences, say scientists studying the world's oceans. (NewScientist.com)
The 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)
Hurricane 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)
Australia 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)
Russia'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)
Researchers in the eastern United States are cleaning up--and heading into the field--in the wake of last week's Hurricane Isabel. (Science.com)
Authorities 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)
Hurricanes 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 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)
The 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)
Several 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)
U.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)
Hurricane 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)
Although 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)
The five-day workweek may be affecting the climate, researchers say. (ScientificAmerican.com)
A 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)
Five 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)
The 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)
The 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)
The 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)
Driving 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)
A 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)
According to one careful analysis, satellite measurements of the Earth's lower atmosphere don't show any warming. (NPR, Nature)
A 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)