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Editor's note: This article is the last of a three-part series by John Carey. Part 1, " Storm Warning: Extreme Weather Is Caused by Climate Change ," was posted on June 28.

Nearly 40 percent of Americans are part of categories called the "alarmed" or "concerned," meaning they are more likely to say global warming is man-made and are motivated to do something about it. At the opposite end of the ideological spectrum, there are the "doubtful" and "dismissive," -- the 25 percent of Americans who are more likely to express climate skepticism or doubt that climate change will ever harm them personally. [More]

Editor's note: This article is the second of a three-part series by John Carey. Part 1, posted on June 28, is " Storm Warning: Extreme Weather Is a Product ofClimate Change ".

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Willie Soon, a U.S.

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Willie Soon, a U.S. climate change skeptic who has also discounted the health risks of mercury emissions from coal, has received more than $1 million in funding in recent years from large energy companies and an oil industry group, according to Greenpeace. [More]

In this installment of the Butterfly Effect, climate change is creating incredible economic opportunity in the Arctic, leading to saber rattling from Canada and Russia.

OSLO (Reuters) - Life in the oceans is at imminent risk of the worst spate of extinctions in millions of years due to threats such as climate change and over-fishing, a study showed on Tuesday. Time was running short to counter hazards such as a collapse of coral reefs or a spread of low-oxygen "dead zones," according to the study led by the International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO)

By David Fogarty, Climate Change Correspondent, Asia SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Australian climate scientists say they have received death threats, emails with sexual slurs and other insults in a surge of abuse that appears to be a coordinated campaign of intimidation. [More]

Cal-Adapt, the company's new handy climate-change-impact visualizer, makes it easy to understand the specific effects of climate change on where you live (though you may have to move--your neighborhood might be underwater soon). For the average person, data about climate change can be hard to come by.

A new study from MIT says that natural gas is the key to keeping emissions down while we transfer to renewables.

In today's why-the-bees-are-dying news: Giving hives checkups throughout the year yields a lot of things that kill bees, but do any of them cause colony collapse disorder? It's the billion-dollar question: why did colony collapse disorder, a phenomenon characterized by honeybees disappearing for no apparent reason, appear from nowhere in 2006

By Gerard Wynn BONN, Germany (Reuters) - Small island states, at risk from rising seas due to climate change, hinted on Tuesday at a compromise in order to kick-start U.N. talks on reaching a binding deal to curb global warming.

It seems like there is a new flood, tornado, or hurricane every day. Is this the kind of meteorological insanity we need to learn to expect? Snowpocalypse! Tornadoes! Floods! Climate change may seem like tired old news or ideological propaganda to some of us, but this year's weather has certainly been something to sit up and take notice of.

Southern Africa, India and Southeast Asia will be plagued with both high susceptibility and a lack of coping mechanisms as climate change takes its toll, according to models published in a new study.

More than half the people on Earth now live in cities, so they'll be where we have to face our changing weather patterns. The most prepared cities are finding ways to keep citizens safe--and make them money. Even if you haven't been paying attention to the seemingly nonstop stream of wacky weather recently, chances are that your local government has.