Image of the Day: Satellite view of smoke from wildfires in the U.S. Northwest, 23 August 2015

By John Vidal, Arctic Sunrise, www.guardian.co.uk17 September 2012 One of the world's leading ice experts has predicted the final collapse of Arctic sea ice in summer months within four years. In what he calls a "global disaster" now unfolding in...

By Jim Lynch 2 February 2013 (The Detroit News) – In the nearly 100 years researchers have catalogued the rise and fall of the Great Lakes, Michigan and Huron have never seen a month like January. The two-lake system recorded...

By TaminoMarch 21, 2011 … The 2010-2011 rise in food prices was triggered by a rise in cereals prices. It started in July of 2010, and still hasn’t relented. Sure, there are other factors too — and as usually happens,...