Last month was the hottest June in history.

The Earth got so hot last month that scientists described temperatures as “astronomical”, “staggering”, and “strange”. They warned that the climate might have moved into a new, hotter neighbourhood.

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This photo has been doing the rounds online for the last couple of days. It might look like a photo of a dead fish washed up on the shore until you notice what’s crowded around it. Yes they are grizzly bears.

A US court hearing on the fate of 18 beluga whales captured in Russia is set to pit federal regulators against the Georgia aquarium seeking to bring them to the United States.

Earth dialled the heat up in June, smashing warm temperature records for both the month and the first half of the year.

President Michael D Higgins has called on people to reject climate change deniers.

The people who snatched a sea lion pup from a Los Angeles beach have been warned they risk suffering a severe bite.

A leading American climate scientist has said he felt “scared” when a shadowy organisation claiming to represent the CIA asked him about the possibility of weaponised weather.

Last year was Earth’s warmest on record, bolstering the argument that humans are altering the planet’s climate by burning greenhouse gas-emitting fuels, according to a pair of analyses by two major US agencies.

Last year was Earth’s warmest on record, bolstering the argument that humans are altering the planet’s climate by burning greenhouse gas-emitting fuels, according to a pair of analyses by two major US agencies.

Regular snow might be a rare enough sight here in Ireland, but we all know that traditional snowflake shape. Here’s an insight into how those perfect six-armed ice crystals form.

Last month was the hottest October on record across the world, US meteorologists say.

The globe is on a hot streak, setting a heat record in June for the second month in a row.

Driven by exceptionally warm ocean waters, Earth smashed a record for heat in May and is likely to keep on breaking high temperature marks, US experts say.

Scientists are worried about the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and how fast it continues to build without showing any sign of slowing, writes James Warner

America’s huge drought was a freak of nature not caused by man-made global warming, a new government science study said.

Hurricane Sandy is threatening 50 million people on America's heavily-populated east coast today and forecasters warned that New York could bear the brunt of the one-of-a-kind superstorm.

An oil leak spotted in the Gulf of Mexico appears to have come from drilling wreckage on the ocean bed rather than the well that blew in 2010, US scientists and BP said.

The relentless, weather-gone-crazy heat that has blistered the United States and other parts of the world in recent years is so rare it cannot be anything but man-made global warming, a top Nasa scientist says.

Oceans’ rising acid levels have emerged as one of the biggest threats to coral reefs, acting as the “osteoporosis of the sea” and threatening everything from food security to tourism and livelihoods, the head of a US scientific agency said.

Americans dipped into the water, went to the cinema and took tube trains just to have air conditioning relief from unrelenting heat that has killed at least 30 people across half the country.

A nearly-70ft dock torn from a fishing port in northern Japan during the tsunami drifted thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean and floated ashore on an Oregon beach.

An oil company exploration crew’s chance discovery of a 200-year-old shipwreck in a little-charted stretch of the Gulf of Mexico is yielding a trove of new information to scientists, who say it is one of the most well-preserved wrecks ever found in the Gulf.

US federal scientists said that a volleyball and football that washed ashore on an island may be the first pieces of debris to arrive in Alaska from last year’s tsunami in Japan.

One of the strongest solar storms in years engulfed Earth early yesterday but scientists say the planet may have lucked out.

Earth's magnetic field is about to be shaken today by the largest solar storm in five years.

Scientists have identified an orange-coloured gunk that appeared along the shore of a remote Alaska village as millions of microscopic eggs.

The United States is set to announce possible trade and diplomatic sanctions against Iceland for ramping up its whale hunts despite an international moratorium on commercial whaling.

SCIENTISTS judge the overall health of the Gulf of Mexico as nearly back to normal one year after the BP oil spill, but with glaring blemishes that restrain their optimism about nature’s resiliency.

The US federal government proposed listing two seals that depend on sea ice as threatened species because of the projected loss of ice from climate warming.

US federal scientists said they found damage to deep sea corals and other marine life several miles from where BP’s blown-out well spewed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

Scientists said Caribbean corals are being exposed to water temperatures higher than those reported during a record bleaching period five years ago and could start dying in the coming weeks.

The US government’s incident commander for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill said today that BP’s blown-out well is expected to be permanently sealed and declared dead by Sunday, nearly five months after a rig explosion set off the disaster.

The US is reopening more federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico for commercial and recreational fishing that had been closed because of the massive oil spill, a government official said today.

BP PUMPED cement into its blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico yesterday, hoping to start sealing it for good a day after it forced a slow torrent of heavy mud down the broken wellhead and pushed the crude back to its underground source.

A crush of mud finally plugged BP’S blown-out well, three months after the offshore drilling rig explosion that unleashed a gush of oil and a summer of misery along the Gulf Coast.

BP claimed a key milestone yesterday in the effort to plug its blown-out well as a government report said much of the spilled oil is gone, heartening officials who have taken heat during the tricky clean-up but leaving some Gulf Coast residents still sceptical.

A TEAM of scientists will launch an expedition to the Titanic next month to assess the deteriorating condition of the world’s most famous shipwreck and create a detailed three-dimensional map that will “virtually raise the Titanic” for the public.

A team of scientists will launch an expedition to the Titanic next month to assess the deteriorating condition of the world's most famous shipwreck and create a detailed three-dimensional map that will "virtually raise the Titanic" for the public.

Crews hurried to get back to work on plugging BP's leaky oil well after Tropical Storm Bonnie fizzled out and engineers hoped for a window of clear weather long enough to stop the gush for good.

BP’s evacuation of the Gulf of Mexico was today called off and ships were heading back to the site of its damaged well.

A heatwave across much of Europe is starting forest fires, causing crops to wither and roads to melt, while fridges and fans are buckling in the searing sun.

Tar balls found on a Texas beach were confirmed as the first evidence that gushing crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon well had reached all the Gulf states.