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Study: Climate Change Will Cut Habitats by 2080

8:44 PM, May 12, 2013

Global warming will destroy more than half of the habitats of most plants and a third of animals by 2080, biologists conclude, unless steps are taken to limit greenhouse gases.

Carbon Dioxide Now at Highest Level in 5 Million Years

8:35 PM, Apr 29, 2013

For the first time in roughly 5 million years, the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere could top 400 parts per million in the Northern Hemisphere next month.

How Climate Change Threatens the Seas

9:48 AM, Mar 28, 2013

The tide rolls out on a chilly March evening, and the oystermen roll in, steel rakes in hand, hip boots crunching on the gravel beneath a starry, velvet sky.

GOES satellite image provided by NASA Hurricane Sandy. (NASA via Getty Images)

Weather Service Chief: We Face 'New Normal' of Extremes

11:10 AM, Mar 21, 2013

The onslaught of wild weather that has battered the USA in recent years - from Hurricane Sandy and deadly tornado outbreaks to extremes of drought and floods -- looks to be part of a "new normal" for weather patterns in the U.S.,

In this edition of Climate Matters, Jim Gandy explains how winters are getting warmer.

Our Warming Winters

11:39 AM, Mar 11, 2013

Don't let the recent cold snaps and snowstorms that have chilled large parts of the country fool you: winters in most places have been getting milder over the past century - and especially over the past 40 years. In fact, most of the warming the U.S. has experienced over the past century - largely the result of heat-trapping greenhouse gases - has come in winter.

A woman walks with her dog by homes damaged by Hurricane Sandy along the beach in the Rockaways on January 15, 2013 in New York City. A $50.7 billion Superstorm Sandy aid package is expected to be voted on in the Senate. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Report: Most Insurers Not Prepared for Climate Change

4:38 PM, Mar 7, 2013

Most insurance companies do not have comprehensive strategies to cope with climate change despite mounting weather-related claims, says a report to be released Thursday.