Climate Data

Climate Armageddon: How the World's Weather Could Quickly Run Amok [Excerpt]

25 May 2012

Adapted from The Fate of the Species: Why the Human Race May Cause Its Own Extinction and How We Can Stop It , by Fred Guterl (Bloomsbury USA, 2012). [More]

Climate change allows once-rare British butterfly to thrive

25 May 2012

Although it's well known that climate change can prompt plants and animals to shift the ranges in which they live, the brown argus (Aricia agestis) has widened its living quarters with unusual speed, according to an analysis of decades of data collected by British volunteers.

UN climate talks deadlocked in Bonn as divisions between rich and poor nations reopen

24 May 2012

BONN, Germany - U.N. climate talks ran into gridlock Thursday as a widening rift between rich and poor countries risked undoing some advances made last year in the decades-long effort to control carbon emissions that scientists say are overheating the planet.