While many conservative commentators and editorialists have mocked concerns about climate change, a different reality is emerging among Republican presidential contenders. It is a near-unanimous recognition among the leaders of … Read more
Global Warming Staff’s Archive
New Poll Challenges Myths about NH Sportsmen
NWF released a poll of New Hampshire sportsmen this week and hosted a conference on global warming in the state. The majority of New Hampshire’s hunters and anglers say global … Read more
Americans Say: Global Warming is an Election Issue
A recent poll showed that 40 percent of Americans feel that a candidate’s position on global warming would be extremely important or very important deciding factor in the upcoming presidential … Read more
Global Warming May Make Humidity Worse
The world isn’t just getting hotter from man-made global warming, it’s getting stickier. The amount of moisture in the air near the surface the stuff that makes hot weather unbearable … Read more
Arctic Melt Unnerves the Experts
The Arctic ice cap shrank so much this summer that waves briefly lapped along two long-imagined Arctic shipping routes, the Northwest Passage over Canada and the Northern Sea Route … Read more
Chesapeake Bay's Habitats Threatened By Global Warming
NWF’s new report on the impact of global warming on the Chesapeake Bay calls for a major shift in how land is managed in the bay to protect the nation’s … Read more
Dingell stirs debate over carbon tax
Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) this week threw a new wrinkle into the debate over how the United States should respond to global warming with a proposal to create a new … Read more
U.S. judge throws out state global-warming suit against automakers
A federal judge in San Francisco has thrown out a lawsuit that the California state attorney general filed against the six largest automakers, in what had been billed as a … Read more
Climate Change Brings Risk of More Extinctions
Around the world, scientists have found that climate change is altering natural ecosystems, making profound changes in the ways that animals live, migrate, eat and grow. Click here for this … Read more
Judge rejects automakers’ bid to scrap state emission rules
State rules on greenhouse gas emissions don’t conflict with federal mileage standards and automakers should be able to develop the technology to meet them, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Click … Read more