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Panelists discuss the challenges climate and anticipated climate change effects will have in the United States and internationally, including in vulnerable populations.

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While forecasters accurately predicted that the hurricane would make landfall in Myanmar, they predicted that it would reach only Category 1, or possibly weak Category 2 strength before hitting land.

The nation's first, large-scale seawater desalination plant is delivering drinking water to more than 2.5 million residents of the Tampa Bay area. It's a timelysolution as continued drought is forecast across the southeastern United States.

A UK government report is now claiming that, overall, global warming could save lives. With temperatures on the rise, the summer months will see an increase in heat-related deaths. Winters, however, will be milder and fatalities during this period will fall as a result. So- more people to die from the extreme heat, but far fewer to die from the cold

A lively and sometimes scrappy debate on whether global warming is fueling bigger and nastier hurricanes like Katrina is adding an edge to a gathering of forecasters here.

Fears of world recession briefly took a back seat Thursday at the World Economic Forum, where leaders from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq focused on how to establish security in their volatile regions.

As the weather temps dip, officials remind you to look after outdoor animals.

In Queensland, Australia, the Nogoa River is still on the rise, but authorities say water levels should begin to recede in the region after cresting today.

Drought-stricken Cyprus may import water to beat a crippling shortage that is threatening to tap the island's reservoir reserves dry, its agriculture minister said on Wednesday.

Jonathan Lash, President, World Resources Institute (WRI), outlines seven environmental trends to watch for in 2008, ranging from climatechange, to China's environment and whether weather conditions will play a role in 2008 elections.

A vast swath of the United States was warmer than usual this year, leading to severe drought conditions and wildfires in the West and Southeast. Texas, the Lone Star state, stood alone, the only one to record below average temperatures.

Scientists say that this summer’s accelerated Arctic ice melt could be a sign that global warming has passed the tipping point

Residents waited glumly for muddy floodwaters to recede and motorists faced massive detours Tuesday as an overflowing river severed the Pacific Northwest’s biggest and most important transportation corridor to a depth of 10 feet.

Heavy storms killed at least two people in the Pacific Northwest and forced all lanes of Interstate 5 between Portland and Seattle to be closed. Forecasts call for more snow Tuesday.

Many Sheridan residents say they’re seeing the worst flooding they’ve ever seen.

Faced with melting polar ice caps and worsening droughts, climate experts at a massive U.N. conference Monday urged quick action toward a new international pact stemming an increasingly destructive rise in world temperatures.

Four days after super cyclone Sidr killed more than 3,000 people in Bangladesh, rescuers struggled on Monday to reach isolated areas along the country's devastated coast and give aid to millions of survivors.

Temperatures in parts of Florida were below freezing early Thursday.

The Subcommittee on Energy and Environment meets to continue oversight on the next-generation Geostationary OperationalEnvironmental Satellite (GOES) program. The Government Accountability Office has been continuing its evaluation of progress made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration at the request of the Subcommittee, and releases its new report.

Flood-ravaged central Vietnam was bracing for Tropical Storm Peipah, forecast to make landfall this week, even as the country copes with floods that have killed at least 49 people in two weeks, officials said Monday.

Tropical Storm Noel Hits Cuba After Killing at Least 22 in Caribbean

More than half a dozen wildfires driven by powerful Santa Ana winds spread across Southern California on Sunday. The blazes killed one person and destroyed several homes and a church in Malibu.

The physics of global warming is not new and the ‘greenhouse effect’ has been known for a couple of hundred years. However, if you artificially add to the amount of these gases in the atmosphere, especially CO2 (7,000 million tonnes a year of carbon), this will add considerably to the blanket and the earth will become warmer.

Ancient diaries of day-to-day weather details from the age before 19th-century standardized thermometers are suddenly proving of great value to scientists who study climate. Previously, historical accounts got little respect. But they are getting a fresh look.

A photoblog of the Ohio Floods and other weird weather photos.

Photoblog of the tornado and aftermath