How the Sahara Desert both contributes to and checks the formation of big hurricanes.

Extreme weather journalists are not the calm we need during a hurricane or storm.

Did you know that rounder leaves have greater daily light interception and carbon gain? Here's how and why plants change the shape of their leaves.

It's not the smartest thing you've ever done, but here's why this winter mishap happens, and how you can get out of it in one piece.

Plants have a specialized form of communication to compensate for their inability to move, a PLOS One study finds.

Animals use the same wait-your-turn system that most humans do, say scientists who reviewed a series of animal studies.

Touching a giant hogweed can cause burns and even blindness.

Urban noise — and AC/DC — may be wreaking havoc on ecosystems.

As climate change makes insects hungrier, they're taking a bigger bite out the world's food supply.

Researchers have managed to pinpoint the time you're most likely to meet a spider.

Moving invasive purple sea urchins off the California coast helps to restore balance to the ecosystem.

Satellite images confirm another massive iceberg has split from Antarctica, this time from the Pine Island Glacier.

A drone has found a vast catshark nursery on the seafloor west of Ireland, say scientists with the SeaRover survey.

You're not imagining it when the world falls into a hush during a snowfall.

This middle-of-nowhere cave may have never been seen by humans.

The extremely rare South Pacific island is one of three new islands to form in the last 150 years.

New plastic PDK can be broken down at a molecular level and come back just as strong to be reused again and again.

Wood that bounces sunlight back into the atmosphere could be a game-changer for buildings.

​Nearly 10 percent of rocky surfaces on the island paradise of Madeira are covered in 'plasticrust.'

Scientists complete the first-ever genome sequence of the deepest-living animal on Earth.

Microplastics were found in 90 percent of rainwater samples taken from Rocky Mountains.

New research finds mean spiders know what it takes to survive extreme weather.

A floating sheet of pumice could bring an infusion of life to Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Worlds collide as energy corporations, Fortune 500 CEO's, nonprofit leaders and 60,000 protestors try to make sense of the Copenhagen climate talks.

Video: MNN blogger Karl Burkart chats with Current TV about the politics of blogging at the Copenhagen climate summit.

Climate talks in Denmark are on hold after a group of developing nations walked out over concerns about abandoning the Kyoto Protocol.

Canada does an about-face on its climate target (if only) and the G77 suspends talks after a move to eliminate Kyoto Protocol language.

Video: As the Copenhagen summit continues, global warming deniers are popping up all over. Perhaps they're right, says Jon Stewart, it's all a conspiracy of tho

A 'prediction market' is betting on the outcome of Copenhagen. Here are 4 experts making their own predictions for COP15.

Eco prankster activists pull a fast one on the world when they send out a flurry of press releases that seem to indicate big cuts and climate reparation payment

Ethiopia shocks African nations by supporting the new draft agreement at Copenhagen. Drama sure to ensure tomorrow.

Video from Al Gore's speech yesterday at the Copenhagen climate talks.

Kids present a DVD of videos, songs, speeches and presentations on climate change to world leaders in Copenhagen.

Sarah Palin trades barbs with California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger after he criticized her anti-science stance on global warming.

NGO's furious over new draft agreement and a radical reduction of badges at the Bella Center. Only 300 delegates will now be allowed in.

Global warming science is under attack as never before, and these raiders are in the vanguard.

The U.S. secretary of state makes the ACES climate bill targets official and pledges to build a $100 billion fund.

Video: President Obama addresses the leaders of nations attending the climate change conference in Copenhagen, urging countries to step up before it's too late.

The Bolivian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) led an impromptu press conference denouncing the closed meeting of 18 'friendly nations' led by Obama. Hugo Chavez

Clients of the Cueto Law Group in Miami, Florida can now pay up to 20% of their legal fees with carbon credits.

Both environmentalists and U.N. officials agree ... COP15 was a 'failure.' But the 'Copenhagen Accord,' though flawed could mark the messy beginnings of a post-

Climate change denier and Republican senator Jim Inhofe was given a cool reception by the foreign press corp when he hit Copenhagen last week.

The USGBC has been busy this month including live blogging from Copenhagen, a deal with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and finalizing video from Green

Video: Rachel Maddow is joined by <i>New York Times</i> columnist Thomas Friedman, fresh from attending the climate change conference in Copenhagen for a discus

Famous graffiti artist Banksy creates a mural that sinks in global warming denial.

A hilarious accounting of 'Climategate' and why universities need to professional PR help.

Video clips from the great Copenhagen march for the climate.

On the heels of a failed COP15, one story reminds me of the importance of media in the fight to save our planet.

Video footage from our tour of an off-shore wind farm in Denmark.. will wind replace an aging fleet of coal plants?

As governments struggle to solve the climate change crisis, who's stepping up?