For example, it is estimated that flood heights from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 - one of America's deadliest storms - were 15-60% higher than they would have been in the climate conditions of 1900.

Climate change refers to changes in the Earth's average temperature. These changes occur naturally over time, but most scientists think that human behaviour is increasing the amount of greenhouse ...

A shortage of data is hampering efforts to establish the role of climate change in extreme-weather events in the tropics and global south. So say an international team of scientists, who claim the ...

Researchers find 'striking evidence' tropical fish are moving south due to climate change By MARK PRIGG Published: 03:59 EDT, 17 August 2012 | Updated: 14:47 EDT, 17 August 2012 ...

Italy, Spain, Greece) Examples of Climate: The Sahara Desert has a hot and dry climate. The Amazon Rainforest has a humid and tropical climate. Antarctica has an extremely cold, icy climate.

The climate 26 million years ago when Greenland didn’t have any ice would probably be comparable to a future when all the ice on Greenland has melted. Many people like the idea of a tropical island ...

This property also makes ferns very useful for scientists trying to understand how ecosystems are coping with climate change. By studying how these ancient plants have responded to environmental ...

A decline in seed dispersal animals can lead to a reduction of climate change by 57 percent, finds a new study. Researchers ...