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A heavily glaciated region of the Himalayas is bucking the trend of global ice loss and showing small signs of increasing in mass, according to a new study.

March 2012 will go down as the warmest March in the United States since record-keeping began in 1895, NOAA said Monday.

New research provides compelling evidence that the last ice age was ended by a rise in temperature driven by an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Global warming is leading to an unprecedented onslaught of deadly and costly weather disasters, a panel of climate scientists says.

By 2050, the global average temperature could rise by 1.4-3C above levels for late last century, a mass computer simulation suggests.

Global warming-fueled sea level rise over the next century could flood 3.7 million people in 544 US cities temporarily, according to a new method of looking at risking of rising seas published in two scientific papers.

Some states have introduced education standards requiring teachers to defend the denial of man-made global warming. A national watchdog group says it will start monitoring classrooms.

A U.N. climate conference reached a hard-fought agreement Sunday on a far-reaching program meant to set a new course for the global fight against climate change.

South Africa struggled on Saturday to find a compromise deal that could save U.N. climate talks from collapse.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil-fuel burning jumped by 5.9 percent, upending the notion that the brief decline during the recession might persist.