Stories by Scott Waldman

The discussion was meant to show that lawmakers are not yielding the climate discussion to those who reject mainstream science

Scientists, skeptics, crabbers and pastors try to find common ground, offering a glimmer of hope for a divided country

Already, a relatively minor temperature increase has had disastrous health consequences in the country

Coal, jobs, China, blackouts all misrepresented

 As permafrost thaws, emissions of this potent greenhouse gas increase

A massive wave of ice and water in 2012 caused the amount of ice lost from the Rink Glacier to increase by more than 50 percent

A new study has found a steady growth of moss in Antarctica over the last 50 years

The changes in the region are so significant they will have implications across the globe

The most dramatic shift is the rerouting of a major meltwater river in Canada

Fifty-nine percent of voters want the U.S. to do more to address global warming

Scientists are still trying to figure out what that might mean for life on Earth

Today's hearing will try to reframe climate change as an unsettled debate, allowing skeptics and industry to influence regulations and research funding

Credit goes to natural gas, renewable energy and efficiency gains

It marks five consecutive years of CO₂ increases of at least 2 parts per million, an unprecedented rate of growth

Its targeting of climate science goes beyond the work of NOAA and EPA

NASA's work on climate change would go to another agency, with or without funding, or possibly get cut

Researchers found the range of wildlife now affected by climate change is broad, and includes animals on every continent

Lamar Smith says he has new evidence that a government study discrediting a purported pause in global warming was politically motivated, but independent research supports the findings

The hearing will likely include discussion of the Secret Science Reform Act, which scores of scientific organizations oppose

Mild weather days worldwide could decline by up to 13 percent by the end of the century due to global warming

The committee has jurisdiction over $40 billion in federal budgets, and influence on climate research and environmental regulations

The new way to challenge climate change acknowledges the science, or some of it, rather than rejecting it whole cloth

The public’s perception of global warming is shaped by the weather that people experience

Deadly heat waves, Alaskan wildfires and sunny day tidal flooding are some of the events that scientists are increasingly linking to climate change