The United States declared the polar bear a threatened species yesterday; saying the dramatic reduction in sea ice caused by global warming has put it in imminent danger of extinction.
Although this was the first time the US Endangered Species Act was used to protect a species threatened by climate change, the bears will only be […]

Global warming is disrupting wildlife and the environment on every continent, according to an unprecedented study that reveals the extent to which climate change is affecting the world’s ecosystems.
Scientists examined published reports dating back to 1970 and found that at least 90% of environmental damage and disruption around the world could be explained by rising […]

Another day, another species in trouble because of climate change. First the polar bear, then the koala bear and now the narwhal.
New research suggests that the mysterious whale with a long spiral tusk, may be more at risk from climatic change that the better known polar bear. Researchers fear that the narwhal is so attuned […]

Olav Mathias-Eira is a reindeer-herder. He is a member of the Sami community, one of the largest indigenous groups remaining in Europe, and his family have been herding reindeer in the same stretch of the Norwegian Arctic since the 1400s.
But, because of climate change, their lifestyle, unchanged for centuries, is now at risk. So Mr […]

One of the ways climate change will affect us will be in ways we do not expect. We may have climate models, but we cannot predict all the horrors that lie in store.
Here is one such horror. The New Scientist has run a story about how “decades after most countries stopped spraying DDT, frozen stores […]