CLIMATE CHANGE

Many species are adjusting to the Earth's warming by migrating to higher altitudes and latitudes, a new study by the Department of Biology of the University of York said. Researchers said that species have been rapidly reshuffling, shifting in an effort to adjust to a shifting climate.

If Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas and candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, is trying to show that he's qualified to lead an enlightened, diverse, complex society amid a period of economic, social, and technological change, he's doing an awful bad impression.

NASA-funded researchers created the first complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica, showing glaciers flowing thousands of miles from the continent's deep interior to its coast.

Plant and animal species have reacted to global warming by moving towards the north, away from the equator at a faster rate to avoid Earth's rising temperature, reveals a survey of nearly 1,400 species.

NASA has teamed up with researchers from the University of California and various space agencies to map the Antarctica ice flow.

Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas and a candidate for the 2012 Republican nomination for president, said Wednesday he doubts man-made climate change is occurring, and also asserted that some scientists have manipulated the climate change research data to keep the issue alive.

The United States has already tied its full-year record for storm damage -- with more than $35 billion in damage from tornadoes, floods and heat waves -- the National Weather Service said, and there are still 4 1/2 months left in 2011, including hurricane season.

New research indicates that Arctic sea ice may temporarily stabilize or expand over the next few decades after its rapid retreat that saw a historical peak in July. Arctic ice has been declining since the start of satellite monitoring in 1979, and half of the trend is attributed to human activity, the study also revealed.

Dead plant material from trees may release carbon through the forest soil

Not only can vampire bats locate hotspots or blood vessels in their prey using infrared vein sensors on their lips, which was revealed in a study earlier this month, the blood-sucking bats may also be carrying rabies virus, as U.S. health officials confirmed Friday the first death in the country from rabies carried by the animals.

Researchers from MIT criticized the United Nations' global climate report, saying it seriously underestimated the speed of Arctic sea ice loss.

Researchers from MIT attacked the United Nations' recent global climate report and said that the U.N. underestimated the severity of Arctic sea ice melting. MIT's research team said that the thinning is probably happened four times more quickly than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted.

Pesticides of toxic concentrations have been detected 38 miles inside the reef.

Despite rising global average temperatures, we might see a short retrieve in the rapid decrease in Arctic sea ice in the coming decade. But the unexpected phenomenon will ultimately disappear after the estimated period of time.

Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, use computer modeling to reinforce previous research findings that the level of Arctic sea ice loss experienced in recent decades can't be explained by natural causes alone. Additionally, the ice will sooner or later disappear during summer if climate change continues, the scientists found.

Arctic sea ice may be fated to melt away with the continuous warming of the climate, but it could temporarily stabilize - maybe even expand ? over the next few decades, scientists in Boulder, Colo. say. Computer modeling studies done by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, has reinforced previous findings that the level of Arctic sea ice loss seen in recent decades can't be explained only by natural causes, and that the ice will sooner or later disappear durin...

The CDC reported Friday the first person in the U.S. died from a vampire bat bite last year, prompting attention to the possibility of vampire bats' expansion into the country.

A Mexican teenager is the first officially known person to die from vampire bat bite and infection with human rabies. The 19-year-old victim was a migrant farm worker from Michoacan, who got bitten on the heel by a vampire bat in July.

Global Warming and Climate Change are phenomena that broke the bonds of scientific circles to be a matter of debate between 'believers' and 'skeptics.' Countless studies validating and denying global warming have seen the light of the day providing fodder for more debates, some of which somewhat bitter. A couple of days back reports of Al Gore's use of curse words against skeptics, during a heated rant, was doing the rounds on the Internet. The Nobel Peace Prize winner called thos...

An international team of researchers has cracked the code on the Atlantic fish species.

A devastation of conifer forests about 250 million years ago was caused by tree-killing fungi whose growth was triggered by global climate change, says a University of California, Berkeley, study that warns it could happen again.