Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Global warming is the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans since the late 19th century and its projected continuation.
Read More at Wikipedia ›
Are global warming skeptics anti-science? Or just ignorant about science?Maybe neither.
A study published Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change finds that people who are not that worried about the effects of global warming tend to have a slightly higher level of scientific knowledge than those who are worried, as determined by their answers to questions like:"Electrons are smaller than atoms -- true or false?""How long does it take the Earth to go around the Sun? One day, one month, or one year?""Lasers work by focusing sound waves -- true or false?"The quiz, containing 22 questions about both science and statistics, was given to 1,540 representative Americans. Respondents who were relatively less worried about global warming got 57 percent of them right, on average, just barely outscoring those whose who saw global warming as a bigger threat. They got 56 percent of the questions correct."As respondents' science literacy scores increased, their concern with climate change decreas...Another round of U.N. climate talks closed Friday without resolving how to share the burden of curbing man-made global warming, mainly because countries don't agree ...
At a resort complex in sun-drenched Mexico, world governments begin yet another attempt to fight global warming, hoping to overcome the disconnect between rich and p...
At its first negotiations on climate change, the Obama administration is trying to convince other countries that the U.S. does care about global warming and wants to...
UNITED NATIONS -- The Obama administration, in a major environmental policy shift, is leaning toward asking 195 nations that ratified the U.N. ozone treaty to enact ...
North Korea is mobilizing workers to irrigate farms and repair wells as officials report a serious drought that could worsen already critical food shortages.Help, ho...
North Korea is reporting a serious drought that could worsen already critical food shortages, but help is unlikely to come from the United States and South Korea fol...
In the trees and grasses of the South, there are a growing number of unwanted visitors that at best are an itchy nuisance and at worst can carry debilitating disease...
WASHINGTON -- The head of the Environmental Protection Agency is in for some grilling by Congress this year, so much so that a top House Republican joked that she sh...
As a weapon against global warming, it sounds so simple and low-tech that it could not possibly work.But the idea of using millions of buckets of whitewash to avert ...
Analysis of government spending
Diplomats say European leaders have agreed on how they will carry out an ambitious plan to fight global warming.The plan lays out how the 27 member countries will cu...
The head of a panel of United Nations climate scientists said Saturday he would not resign despite a recent admission that a panel report warning Himalayan glaciers ...
The number of people fleeing their homes and becoming refugees or displaced in their own countries will increase in the next 10 years as a result of a host of intert...
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is trekking north of the Arctic Circle, a region that could become a new international battleground for resources.Clin...
A massive wildfire in the New Mexico wilderness that already is the largest in state history spread in all directions Thursday, and experts say it's likely a preview...
A massive wildfire in the New Mexico wilderness that already is the largest in state history spread in all directions Thursday, and experts say it's likely a preview...
The mysterious fall of the largest of the world's earliest urban civilizations nearly 4,000 years ago in what is now India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh now appear...
EU leaders agreed Friday to commit euro2.4 billion ($3.6 billion) a year until 2012 to help poorer countries combat global warming, as they sought to rescue their im...
L'AQUILA, Italy -- President Obama said Thursday the global recession makes it harder to strike an international agreement to battle dangerous temperature increases,...
This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2012 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. All market data delayed 20 minutes.
