Hundreds of deep-sea species new to science are disappearing before they can be identified or studied, pushed to extinction by trawlers targeting undersea volcanic mountains called seamounts. (Newscientist.com)
With 71 percent of the world covered with oceans, tiny plants of the sea play a major role in the balance of life on the planet. (Scripps Howard)
Despite its palm-lined boulevards, Hollywood was just miles from glaciers as little as 5,000 years ago, according to California geologists. (Discovery Channel)
A scientist has found a way to use earthquakes to predict when volcanoes will erupt. (BBCNews)
The oil spill from the tanker Prestige, which sank off Spain in November 2002, has been far worse than previously claimed, the Spanish government has disclosed, perhaps as bad as the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska in 1989. (Newscientist.com)
Researchers found that deuterium, a naturally occurring stable isotope of hydrogen, concentrates itself in molecular hydrogen (H2) in the atmosphere, lending insight into the hydrogen cycle and possibly having ramifications for the use of fuel cells as an alternative energy source. (Terradaily.com)
Statewide, 36 wildfires have devoured big bites of parched pine forest and tinder-dry grasslands, destroying more than 400,000 acres so far - only a small percentage of its total size, but equivalent to half the state of Rhode Island. (Reuters)
Europe may be breathing a sigh of relief as its heatwave eases, but temperature changes caused by global warming are likely to transform agriculture on both sides of the Atlantic. (newscientist.com)
The ozone hole over the Antarctic is growing at a rate that suggests it could be headed for a record size this year, Australian scientists said on Friday. (CNN.com, ABCnews.com)
U.S. Earth Observation satellites are trackng fires around the world, changing the practice of wildfire management. (VOANews, NYTimes)
Officials in the province of British Columbia tightened restrictions on forest travel in order to cut down on the chance of spreading forest fires, as firefighters battle the region's worst spate of wildfires in more than 50 years. (Terradaily.com)
Scientists using data from a NASA satellite have found El Niño events produce more of a steady rain in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and any weather pattern changes affect weather regionally and even worldwide. (Innovations-report.com)
The hot weather that fueled a rash of wildfires this month, claiming 18 lives, also caused more than 1,300 heat-related deaths in Portugal, according to a report by national health officials to be released later Thursday. (Terradaily.com)
NASA is using satellite data to determine the number of dark-colored roofs in an effort to begin promoting light-colored roofing materials and more trees to help cool things down in a warmer, more energy-intensive world. (UPI)
Thick as pea soup, and capable of killing you, microcystis, a toxic form of green algae, has mysteriously reappeared in the lake this time of year almost every summer since 1995. (Scripps Howard)
Global warming and pollution are among the modern-day threats commonly blamed for decline of coral reefs, but new research shows the downfall of those signatures of tropical oceans actually may have begun centuries ago. (SpaceDaily.com, Brightsurf.com, Sciencedaily.com)
An oil spill on the coast of Pakistan is sickening thousands of people in Karachi and threatening major environmental problems. The oil, from a grounded Greek oil tanker, is now being blown by strong winds onto the shore. (newscientist.com)
Grayed by the heat and riven with deep cracks, Switzerland's mighty Alpine glaciers are shrinking at a record rate in this summer's sizzling sun. (CNN.com)
European space agency satellites have been used to help fire fighters tackle the forest blazes in Portugal. (BBC News)
Masses of plankton, dying as global warming heats up the waters off the Seychelles, are threatening marine life in the Indian Ocean tourist haven, a government official said. (CNN.com, Reuters)
The year so far has been a record-breaker in a number of regions, according to the UN?s World Meteorological Organization. The usual suspects ? El Nino, La Nina, and global warming don?t seem to explain the unusual conditions. (The Science Christian Monitor)
The world's coral reefs, weakened by centuries of human exploitation and abuse, may disappear this century, researchers say. (BBC News, CNN, MSNBC)
In a new study directly linking climactic warming with the survival of lake organisms, researchers have found evidence that increasing air and water temperatures and related factors are shrinking fish and algae populations. (Brightsurf.com)
Researchers have discovered that total bromine in the lower atmosphere, which is one of the most active destroyers of the stratospheric ozone layer, has been decreasing since 1998 and is now more than five percent below the peak reached that year. (Brightsurf.com)
Teams of gene scientists have unravelled the DNA of two key marine bacteria believed to play a vital role in the process of global warming. (Discovery, MSNBC, Nature)
Glaciers clung to the slopes of a mountain just 120 kilometers (75 miles) east of now-sweltering Los Angeles as recently as 5,000 years ago, according to a new study. (CNN, MSNBC)
Slithering out of concealment into the Mediterranean temperatures, the UK?s reptiles are delighting in the British heatwave. (BBC News)
Lake Tanganyika in central Africa - where Henry Stanley delivered his immortal question, "Dr Livingstone, I presume?" - is in ecological crisis as a result of global warming. (Independent.co.uk)
Higher temperatures linked to global warming will melt most of the Arctic?s summer icecap by the end of the century, according to a new report. (CNN)
A warming climate and not local fishermen is to blame for the falling fish harvests in Lake Tanganyika, according to new research findings published in the British journal Nature. (BBC News)
Records for Atlantic hurricanes are all shook up after government meteorologists entered more than 5,000 storm additions and alterations into their historic database last month. (Scripps Howard News Service)
Researchers at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder will receive $1.8 million from NASA to compile an online database of the world's glaciers. (Brightsurf.com)
Water released from Lake Vostok, deep beneath the south polar ice sheet, could gush like a popped can of soda if not contained, opening the lake to possible contamination. (Brightsurf.com)
An upwelling of deep, cold Atlantic Ocean water brought to the beach by tides and winds is affecting sea turtle hatchlings trying to reach the warm waters of the Gulf Stream. (CBS News)
As Europe?s drivers turn up the air conditioning to combat a heat wave, EU regulators issued a draft law to ban the chemical used to cool cars as it is a highly potent greenhouse gas blamed for global warming. (CNN)
Canada's newest satellite called SCISAT was fired into orbit on this day and will help scientists probe the ozone layer. (CBC News, CBS News, CNN)
Scientists surveying deep coral habitat in Alaska's Aleutian Chain have discovered and mapped the region?s first confirmed undersea volcano. (Anchorage Daily News, CNN, MSNBC)
Researchers will receive $1.8 million from NASA to compile an online database of the world's glaciers that combines historical records with measurements from the latest technologies in satellite remote sensing. (Brightsurf.com)
As Europe swelters in abnormally high temperatures, creatures like eels, chickens, cuckoos and butterflies are finding it difficult to stay alive without new tactics. (CNN)
Scientists are now studying why the surf is taking a dip, from water temperatures that should be in the 70's to sometimes reaching lows in the 50's. (CBS News)
The West Nile virus is spreading faster and into new areas of the United States this year, prompting fears that the nation could be facing another record outbreak of the deadly mosquito-borne disease. (Reuters, ABC.com)
Companies are lining up to help California squeeze salt from the sea in its quest for new water sources, but the agency that would approve the projects says tapping the ocean could pose serious problems for the coastline. (CNN.com, CBS.com)
Companies are lining up to help California squeeze salt from the sea in its quest for new water sources, but the agency that would approve the projects says tapping the ocean could pose serious problems for the coastline. (CBS News)
Scientists in sunny, hot Florida added ozone measurements from a NASA satellite into computer weather forecast models and improved several factors in a forecast of a major winter snowstorm that hit the United States in 2000. (innovations-report.com, SpaceDaily.com)
The Atlantic Ocean is likely to generate and sustain an above-average number of tropical storms and hurricanes for the remainder of this year, government forecasters said Thursday. (Scripps-Howard)
Britain is enjoying some of the hottest temperatures of the year at the moment but high temperatures are not just affecting this country. (BBCnews.com, NewScientist.com)
Even though they cannot change the weather, weather watchers have been doing plenty about it for centuries - plenty of observing, measuring, calculating, plotting and predicting. (NYTimes.com)
For winemakers, especially those in historically cool grape-growing regions, the changing climate has already markedly affected their lives and wines. (NYTimes.com)
The glut of humanmade carbon dioxide (CO2) that is spurring global warming may have an unwelcome side effect for hay fever sufferers: It could help ragweed flourish and crowd out other plants, ecologists say. (Science)
The ocean has biodiversity hotspots that rival the richness and variety of life found in tropical rainforests, according to a new study. (Science)
A narrow but intense wind may be the mechanism responsible for the existence of a newly discovered ocean convection site east of Greenland. (Brightsurf.com)
Two investigators have documented, for the first time, how a climate shift was initiated by the interplay between the southern and northern Atlantic regions at the end of the last ice age about 15,000 years ago. (Brightsurf.com)
Changes in the lower parts of the stratosphere may influence the weather below, and studying that region could improve extended-range forecasting, according to a new atmospheric analysis. (CBS News)