Stories by Gayathri Vaidyanathan

Researchers link volcanoes, tides and climate change

Emissions of carbon dioxide are changing the climate and natural factors like clouds may not help

The Soil Moisture Active Passive satellite will help forecast drought and climate change

But the gap may be closing between scientists and the public on global warming

La Ninas bring floods and droughts to different parts of the world

A new satellite will help probe the unknowns about what global warming will do to the planet's fertility

The White House announces new plans to slash emissions from the oil and gas industry

Scientists discuss lessons learned from the struggle with those who would deny human-caused global warming

Researchers probe the oceans off the west coast and see signs of the meltdown of icy methane similar in size to the BP oil spill

Old oil and gas wells are adding methane to the atmosphere in Pennsylvania, spurring global warming

The World Meteorological Organization thinks this year will provide a new heat record for the planet

Conservationists go to war over whether humans are the measure of nature's value

CO2 outranks soot, methane and even hydrofluorocarbons in terms of long-term global warming

Scientists prepare an inexpensive, accurate tool to track greenhouse gas concentrations

A pending U.N. report notes that a lack of fast action to combat global warming will lead to severe impacts

Natural gas's impact as a bridge fuel to a cleaner energy future has been oversold, new research suggests

Projects to harvest natural gas from a coal mine in the Four Corners region is spewing the potent greenhouse gas

Better measurements deepen the mystery of global warming heat stored in the oceans

When it comes to spewing methane, big oil companies and little wildcatters both make the list for biggest contributors to global warming

Scientists find a link between increasing greenhouse gas emissions and deadly hot spells but drought and downpours proved more complicated

To avoid more than two degrees Celsius of global warming, CO2 pollution would have to stop growing soon

Scientists attribute two-thirds of the meltdown of glaciers to human causes

Researchers have traced ancient tipping points that could presage what to expect under the current global warming

An academic feud swirls around how best or even whether to express the scientific consensus around climate change