Three months after the landmark agreement on a road map towards strengthened international action on climate change reached in Bali, Indonesia, the latest round of negotiations shifted to the neighboring country of Thailand and its capital, Bangkok. The talks took place between 31 March to 4 April 2008 at the United Nations Conference Center (UNCC) of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). Read the entire coverage here.

A chunk of Antarctic ice about seven times the size of Manhattan suddenly collapsed, putting an even greater portion of glacial ice at risk, scientists said Tuesday. Click here for the entire story. Photo courtesy of National Snow and Ice Data Center/ NASA

An earlier spring is causing many plants and animals to change behaviors.These changes, scientists say, have some serious implications for humans. Read the entire story here.

A new report by scientists indicates the world must cease carbon emissions altogether within a matter of decades. Read the entire story here.

Lawyers for the Alaska Native coastal village of Kivalina, which is being forced to relocate because of flooding caused by the changing Arctic climate, filed suit in federal court this week arguing that 5 oil companies, 14 electric utilities and the country’s largest coal company were responsible for the village’s woes. Click here for the whole story.

Scientists have learned that some corals seem to resist warming temperatures better than others. New research is testing whether scientists can help corals adapt by providing them with symbiotic partners better prepared to cope with waters that are growing warmer largely because of the buildup of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels. Read the entire story here.

In a new comprehensive study, a team of scientists identified the nine areas that are in gravest danger of passing critical thresholds or "tipping points", beyond which they will not recover.  Those areas include the Greenland icesheet, the Arctic sea ice, the Amazon rainforest and the Boreal forests of the north. Read the entire story here.

Researchers are now reporting vast ice sheets of western Antarctica that had previously seemed protected from global warming are becoming unstable, raising the prospect of faster sea-level rise. Read the entire story here. Photo courtesy of NOAA.

An end of year report by 75 scientists from government and private institutions projected the water level in Lake Erie could drop 3.3 to 6.6 feet by 2066 as temperatures rise. Read the rest of the story here.

National Geographic photographer James Balog takes on his greatest challenge to date: Invent a way to photograph global warming. See the 7 image photo essay here. Photo by James Balog/National Geographic Society

A sizable fraction of the international business community launched an effort to press for mandatory cuts in greenhouse gas emissions on the eve of a major round of climate negotiations set to begin Monday in Bali. Read the entire story here.

Our very own Patty Glick was featured in the Sunday Seattle Times for her work on the Gardener's Guide to Global Warming. A glimpse into the article: "Patty Glick may spend her time making policy, but her strategies for solving the climate crisis are down to earth." Way to go! Read the whole story here. Image by Mike Siegel of the Seattle Times.

Suspended 20 stories in the air, Ken Bible of the University of Washington is able to take measurements showing old forests continue to grow and act as a sink for global warming pollution. Read the whole story here.

New satellite imaging has revealed that hurricanes Katrina and Rita produced the largest single forestry disaster on record in the nation -- an unreported ecological catastrophe that killed or severely damaged about 320 million trees.  The die-off was so massive that researchers say it will add significantly to the global greenhouse gas buildup. Read the entire story here.

The Arctic ice cap shrank so much this summer that waves briefly lapped along two long-imagined Arctic shipping routes, the Northwest Passage over Canada and the Northern Sea Route over Russia. Click here for the rest of the story. Photo Courtesy of Andy Armstrong/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Around the world, scientists have found that climate change is altering natural ecosystems, making profound changes in the ways that animals live, migrate, eat and grow. Click here for this third article of a monthly series.

Global warming will cause storms to increase in strength according to a new NASA study, though there will be fewer storms overall. The combination of drier conditions and higher rates of heavy lightning could potentially trigger more wildfires in the western US. Read more here.
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NOAA climate scientists recently reported that greenhouse gas emissions -- not El Nino or other natural phenomena -- pushed U.S. temperatures for 2006 close to a record high. Read more here.

In the world's first near-term global warming forecast, climate scientists say the planet's temperature will plateau for two years and then rise sharply through 2014 with many years exceeding temperatures in 1998, currently the hottest year on record. Read more here.

The recent heat wave experienced by much of the country is just one of the extreme weather events the UN World Meteorological Association blames on global warming. Read more here.

Across the US Evangelicals are joining in the movement to stop global warming. Read more here.

A new study finds that ground-level ozone, which is produced by the burning of fossil fuels, may worsen global warming by preventing the growth of new plants that would otherwise capture carbon dioxide.  Read more here.

Using records dating back to the mid-1800s, a new study finds a correlation in the number of Atlantic hurricanes and the increase in sea surface temperature related to global warming.  Read more here.
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The current flooding experienced in the UK and earlier this summer in the Great Plains is due to man-made global warming, a new study finds.  Read more here.

The National Wildlife Federation recently worked with experts at the Duke Nicholas Institute who  modelled a 2% per year global warming pollution reduction pathway.  The result of Duke's work is included in a comprehensive spread in  Washington Post, showing how a 2% plan globally can stabilize CO2 concentrations and help us avoid the most devastating effects of global warming.  Read more here.

Rising temperatures may be the cause of a population boom in insects and disease-caring animals.  Experts warn that with the arrival of summer, extra care needs to be taken to ward against insects such as mosquitoes and ticks.  Read more here.
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In a recent op-ed to the New York Times, Al Gore explains why America must quickly act to lead the world in reducing our global warming pollution. Read the article here.
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New research by NASA and the Columbia University Earth Institute suggests that greater urgency is needed to address climate change than what the IPCC recently reported.  NASA warns that just 10 more years of "business as usual" emissions could push us over a dangerous tipping point in which the world will not be able to avoid the most devastating effects of global warming.  Read the story here.

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Rising water temperatures due to global warming have allowed a man-eating bacteria called Vibrio to move north, dramatically increasing the number of people afflicted by it.  Warning: This article includes some disturbing pictures of Vibrio victims.  Read the full story here.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its third and final report addressing possible ways emissions reductions can be achieved. The IPCC authors pointed to the areas of energy supply, architecture, transportation, industry, agriculture, forests and waste and explained ways in which these sectors can lessen their global warming pollution emissions at surprisingly low costs. See the full story here.

In a disturbing study, US researchers recently reported that Arctic sea ice is melting three times faster than many scientists project. “The
Arctic is losing ice at an increasingly rapid pace and the impact of greenhouse gases is growing," said NCAR scientist Marika Holland, one of the study's co-authors. Read the full article here.

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A group of British climate scientists have demanded that significant changes be made to "The Great Global Warming Swindle", a documentary that argues against the theory that human activity is causing global warming.  The scientists claim that "the errors are huge" and are the only thing holding up director Mark Durkin's side of the debate.  Read this article.

Read this article from the Washington Post to learn about the IPCC's new report on global warming and its projected impacts.  The IPCC study found that up to 30 percent of the Earth's species face an increased risk of vanishing if global temperatures rise 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit above what they were in the 1980s and '90s.  Today's report is the second in a series and looks specifically at the global and regional impacts that we are observing and can expect if we take no action

New scientific studies suggest that global warming may not only alter climate, but cause some climates to disappear entirely.  Areas such as the Peruvian and Colombian Andes and regions such as Siberia and southern Australia face a risk of climates disappearing altogether.  The unique conditions found in these places would not occur elsewhere on Earth.  Read this article from Sci-Tech Today to learn more.

The Advancing Science, Serving Society Board released a powerful statement last week acknowledging the existence of human induced global warming and calling for the mobilization of knowledge and political will to confront this threat.