Global warming blamed for Walrus deaths
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In what some scientists see as another alarming consequence of global warming, thousands of Pacific walruses above the Arctic Circle were killed in stampedes earlier this year after the disappearance of sea ice caused them to crowd onto the shoreline in extraordinary numbers.
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Some arctic animals including polar bears and species of seal face the possibility of extinction in just decades because of global warming, the World Wide Fund for Nature said Sunday.
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Global warming caused by human activity has more than doubled the risk of summers as hot as in 2003, when thousands of people in Europe died of heat-related causes, according to a UK study published in the journal Nature.
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By BETH GORHAM  WASHINGTON (CP) - Global warming has become such a daily problem for Arctic Inuit that they need air conditioners part of the year but rarely have them, Canadian activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier told an international rights group Thursday.
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New evidence confirms the damage toxic chemicals are causing to the health of polar bears, conservationists say.
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Populations of the hamster-like American pika continue to decline in the West and global warming is partly to blame, a new study says.
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Greenhouse gases have contributed to a gradual warming of the ecologically-fragile Arctic region, causing massive climate changes, including melting glaciers and sea ice, according to a soon-to-be-released environmental study.
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Fire retardants used worldwide in manufacturing vehicle parts and computers have been found in Puget Sound orcas, raising new concerns about the long-term health of the region's killer whales, a new Canadian study shows.
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Two studies say global warming is responsible for a shifting coastline and visits from Arctic seals.
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Scientists on Tuesday blamed global warming for the disappearance of a glacial lake in remote southern Chile that faded away in just two months, leaving just a crater behind.
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The burning of fossil fuels has contributed to warming in the Arctic that is much faster and more dramatic than scientists previously believed at nearly twice the rate of the rest of the world, a new international report concludes.
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Global warming may be melting glaciers and forcing polar bears onto land, but doctors warn it could also affect your heart.
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A lone walrus may be close to revealing where west Greenland's walruses spend their summer - much to the relief of a team studying the creatures' behaviour.
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Scientists are  struggling to explain the rare death of 17 loons in New  Hampshire, saying warm weather may have confused the threatened  species of bird which typically heads to the ocean for winter.
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Scientists have worries about the Arctic warming as they have determined that the ice in Greenland and the Arctic is melting too rapidly .
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Global warming is melting the Arctic ice faster than expected, and the world&#39;s oceans could rise by about a meter by 2100, swamping homes from Bangladesh to Florida, the head of a study said.
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Populations of the American pika &#151; a hamster-like rodent unable to survive in warm climates &#151; continue to decline in the West, apparently due in part to global warming, a new study says.