Two new reports examining climate change adaptation and policy making across Europe will be launched today in Brussels in the presence of Peter Gammeltoft, Head of Unit 'Protection of Water & Marine Environment' at the European Commission. The preliminary conclusions of the research were used in the European Commission's White Paper on climate change, published in April 2009.

In a paper in Nature Geoscience, a team from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS), along with colleagues from Tübingen (Germany) and Bristol presents a novel continuous reconstruction of sea level fluctuations over the last 520 thousand years.

Scientists have unearthed striking evidence for a sudden ancient collapse in plant biodiversity. A trove of 200 million-year-old fossil leaves collected in East Greenland tells the story, carrying its message across time to us today.

The Greenland ice sheet is melting faster than expected according to a new study led by a University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher and published in the journal Hydrological Processes.

As a result of stronger winds caused by global warming, seeds and pollen are being carried over longer distances. An increase in temperature of only a couple of degrees may increase the dispersal of plants in Northern forests and the spread of plant species into forest clearings after felling or forest fires.

300 million people are now directly affected by climate change, according to the first comprehensive study of its social impacts. Climate change claims 300,000 lives a year, and costs $125 billion, equivalent to the entire aid budget to the developing world.

The melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet this century may drive more water than previously thought toward the already threatened coastlines of New York, Boston, Halifax and other cities in the northeastern United States and Canada, according to new research.

It sounds like a WWII movie. "Sink the Vanderberg!" In reality, it's just an artificial reef.

On Tuesday, US President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced a broadn new national program aimed at cutting carbon emissions from vehicles and raising mileage by 30 percent, while also reducing America's dependence on foreign oil.

The most comprehensive modeling yet carried out on the likelihood of how much hotter the Earth's climate will get in this century shows that without rapid and massive action, the Global Warming will be about twice as severe as previously estimated six years ago - and could be even worse than that.

After eight years of the Bush Administration's refusal to address global warming, the Obama administration has vowed to be a friend to science and fight climate change at every level. The latest committment of the administration is to "catch up on climate change."