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The article presents questions and answers related to issues on global warming including the effect of global warming in the 2008 presidential election, integration of climate change by the Congress, and truth on the impact of carbon tax to climate change.

Provides information on the world climate change due to global warming. Glaciers in Bolivia that are wasting away; Arctic species affected by the shrinkage of ice masses in the polar regions; Threats posed by the melting of the permafrost in Norway.

Discusses the adverse environmental effects of global warming. Weather shifts; Extreme temperature changes; Role of fossil fuel combustion on heat waves; Escalation of mosquito-borne and tropical diseases; Death of plant species.

The article presents the author's views on the video entitled "Global Warming Is a Hoax" by Louisiana Representative Lenar Whitney. Whitney argued that the Earth has only gotten colder since the film "An Inconvenient Truth" produced by Al Gore was released in 2006. Also examined are Whitney's brand of rhetoric and her failure to cite her source that the Earth is getting colder.

The article reports on the order of Republican officials in Wisconsin and Florida directing state workers not to discuss, engage or use the words of climate change or global warming.

The article informs that the planet would get warm moderately or drastically in proportion to what humans would do in the next seven years, and states that it could be curtailed only through restricting the burning of fossil fuels.

The article discusses agglomerations of living and dead microorganisms in bodies of water that are thought to be associated with global warming.

This article reports on how climate change is affecting mountain goats in the Rocky Mountains. Mountain goats live in alpine climates that are changing as the planet warms and causes earlier snow melt on grazing lands. It is also noted that the use of snowmobiles could be forcing the goats onto higher ground. The changes have resulted in a drop in goat populations, though some groups are thriving in the new habitats they have been forced into. Information is also provided on the traveling photography exhibit "Irreplaceable: Wildlife in a Warming World."

The article reports on the role of global warming and climate changes on the 2007 elections in Australia. It states that the six-year drought in Australia has turned the attention towards climate change. The economic policies of former Australian prime minister John Howard, who claimed to boost the Australian economy, resulted in the rise of greenhouse gas emissions. Climate scientists have forecasted that the temperature of the interior of Australia will increase upto 7 to 9 degrees by 2070. The government of Kevin Rudd, prime minister of Australia elected in 2007 aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in Australia and is signing the Kyoto treaty at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia.

The article focuses on the data released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, regarding the declaration of endangered species. It states that the Fish and Wildlife Service has not declared any animal species as endangered since 618 days. Former Interior secretary James Watt criticized the administration of former U.S. president Ronald Reagan for ignoring the endangered species of critters. Administration under the presidentship of George W. Bush has listed only 58 species, as compared to 522 species under the presidentship of Bill Clinton. It mentions that the Fish and Wildlife Service has also postponed the declaration of the polar bears as an endangered species and stresses that the Bush administration have to work towards countering global warming to protect the bear species.

The article presents environmental news briefs relating to global warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) has released a report on the environmental and social effects of global warming including the extinction of 30% of earth's plants and animals. It also reports that stabilization of climate is possible only if the world acts immediately to reduce emissions. The report has pushed the Bush administration to reinforce a policy that requires 20% reduction in gasoline over ten years. Northern nations such as Canada and Denmark are racing to stake new claims to islands that are emerging because of melting Arctic sea ice.

The article focuses on issues related to global warming. At the February 2007 Academy Awards, former U.S. Vice President Albert Gore's film on global warming "An Inconvenient Truth," won an Oscar award. According to a recent poll of the U.S. Congress by the "National Journal" found that only 13 percent of Republican members believe that current global warming is caused by humans. The long awaited Fourth Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), stated that global warming is caused by human activity.

The article provides some insights into the benefits and limitations of nuclear power resources citing its implications on the fight against global warming. The Clean and Safe Energy Coalition, headed by Greenpeace cofounder Patrick Moore and former Environmental Protection Agency administration Christine Todd Whitman proposes nuclear power as the solution to climate change. They emphasize that nuclear power plants generate no air pollutants or greenhouse gases and could provide for future energy needs without cramping lifestyles.

The article discusses various facts related to environmental science. It reports on electric blue clouds seen in recent years that lead to global warming. These noctilucent clouds form in the mesosphere and thus reflect the sun long after it has set. These clouds are most prominent at the poles. Greenhouse gases are responsible to the increase in noctilucent clouds. A study carried out by the National Academy of Sciences of the United States has revealed that the last decades of the 20th century were warmer than any comparable period in the past 400 years. A group of scientists have revealed that global warming, due to the increased concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will boost some crop yields.

This article reports that Greenland's enormous Kangerdlugssuaq glacier, which contains four times as much water as the Great Lakes, is rushing toward the sea, becoming one of the fastest-moving glaciers in the world. Measurements taken nine years ago showed the ice mass, on Greenland's east coast, moving at a rate of three miles per year. Last summer, scientists aboard the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise clocked it at nine miles per year. The British Environment Agency is rethinking storing more radioactive waste at Drigg, on the coast of Cumbria, because of its vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal erosion. The dump lies on low ground only a third of a mile from the Irish Sea and holds one million cubic meters of low-level radioactive waste. According to the magazine New Scientist, the agency even wants to explore digging out and removing some of the waste already buried at the site. Warming in the Siberian Arctic has dried up or greatly reduced more than 1,000 large lakes since the early 1970s.