United Nations climate panel's chief scientist Rajendra Pachauri and former US vice president Al Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for sounding the alarm over global warming and spreading awareness on how to counteract it.

Alpine summit vegetation will become increasingly homogenized as a result of climate change, say researchers from the University of Bayreuth and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research writing in the international Journal of Vegetation Science.

How did the rodents which inhabited the south of the Iberian Peninsula live six million years ago? The researcher of the UGR Raef Minwer-Barakat has attempted to answer this question through his doctoral thesis "Rodents and insectivorous of Upper Turoliense and the Pliocene of the central section of the Guadix basin", supervised by doctors Elvira Martín and César Viseras, of the Department of Stratigraphy y Palaeontology of the Universidad de Granada.

Spanish researcher Carme Huguet further refined the recently developed TEX86 paleothermometer during her doctoral research at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ). The thermometer measures seawater temperature dependent changes in the cell wall composition of archeabacteria.

The cow as a killer of the climate: This inglorious role of our four-legged friends, peaceful in itself, is well-enough recognised, because, with their digestion, the animals produce methane, which is expelled continuously.

THE mystery of what killed the Neanderthals has moved a step closer to resolution after an international study led by the University of Leeds has ruled out one of the competing theories – catastrophic climate change – as the most likely cause.

U.S. weather officials say a hurricane aircraft has reported sustained winds of 220 kilometers per hour in Hurricane Felix as the storm strengthens into a powerful Category Four over the Caribbean.

TU Delft has taken a new weather radar system into use, the 'Drizzle Radar', which can observe even the lightest of drizzles. This is an enormous gain for climate researchers and is attracting international attention. The radar was successfully installed on the 213 metre-high Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) measurement tower in Cabauw, near Lopik, on Thursday, August 23.

Hurricane Dean made landfall in Mexico again, battering the nation's central coast with winds of 160 kilometers per hour. In Miami, VOA's Brian Wagner reports that forecasters are warning of possible flooding and mudslides.

ESA satellites are tracking the path of Hurricane Dean as it rips across the Caribbean Sea carrying winds as high as 260 km/h. The hurricane, which has already claimed eight lives, is forecast to slam into Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on Tuesday morning.

Scientists have verified the accuracy of a model that uses October snow cover in Siberia to predict upcoming winter temperatures and snowfall for the high- and mid-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere.

Already a killer storm, hurricane Dean strengthened into a "potentially catastrophic" category five hurricane just hours before it was expected to slam Mexico's Caribbean coast early this morning.