When Mt. Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines, in June of 1991, it blasted enough gas and dust into the air to block some of the sunlight in the atmosphere, causing the Earth’s global climate to cool for a few years.

Global climate change could multiply the numbers of allergy sufferers in Sweden.

Most countries, including the United States, are taking no significant action to arrest warming, despite overwhelming scientific evidence from the Nobel-prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that they should. And while a Yale/Gallup/ClearVision Institute poll last year shows that 71 percent of Americans think warming is a real problem, no change in their lifestyle can be seen.

Studying Mississippi fossils researches discovered that small lemur-like primates wandered across a tropical land bridge from Siberia to Alaska during a period of global warming about 55 million years ago.

In a bid to build on the momentum generated by last December’s landmark United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia, the General Assembly will host a two-day debate on the crucial issue next week in New York.

From the deck of the research ship Weatherbird II, a California company hopes to prove a controversial theory that putting iron dust in the ocean can produce enough plankton to help save the Earth.

WWF ambassador Lewis Gordon Pugh has successfully become the first man to swim at the Geographic North Pole. His 1km swim took 18 minutes and 50 seconds in below freezing temperatures of minus 1.8 degress C - the coldest waters in which a human has ever swum.