Mary Wisniewski

Blizzards. Tornadoes. Floods. Record heat and drought, followed by wildfires.

The first eight months of 2011 have brought strange and destructive weather to the United States.

Jonathan Amos

Scientists have produced what they say is the first complete map of how the ice moves across Antarctica.

Matt Ball

The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) voted to establish a committee on global geospatial information management in order to enhance international dialogue and cooperation on spatial data infrastructures.

JUSTIN GILLIS

Oxfam, the antihunger group, has been running a campaign to call attention to the global food crisis, its consequences and its potential solutions.

Reuter

Molly O'Toole

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is on a pace in 2011 to set a record for the cost of weather-related disasters and the trend is expected to worsen as climate change continues, officials and scientists said on Thursday.

BRAD JOHNSON

Thirty-five years ago this week, Wallace Broecker predicted decades of dangerous climate change caused by humans. Unfortunately, he was all too prescient.

Damian Carrington

Unknown amount of trapped persistent organic pollutants poses threat to marine life and humans as temperatures rise

John Vidal

Critics fear that manipulating weather patterns could have a calamitous effect on poorer countries

Juliet Eilperin

Climate change in the Arctic is not likely to spark an immediate boom in oil and gas exploration, according to a new study published in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.