Last year was the eighth warmest year on record, according to the National Climatic Data Center.

Time to update that old saying “cold hands, warm heart.” New research shows touching something warm can make you feel and act more warmly toward others.

Planet Earth continues to simmer, with this year’s spring the seventh warmest on record.The world average land and sea temperature for spring was 56.7 degrees Fahrenheit (13.7 Celsius), 0.94 degree F (0.52 C) above the mean for the period since record...

Winter storms and snow notwithstanding, this winter was still warmer than average worldwide, the government reported Thursday.The global temperature for meteorological winter _ December, January and February _ averaged 54.38 degrees Fahrenheit, 0.58...

A vast swath of the United States was warmer than usual this year, leading to severe drought conditions and wildfires in the West and Southeast. Texas, the Lone Star state, stood alone, the only one to record below average temperatures.Preliminary data...

It’s shaping up to be one of the warmest years on record.The annual temperature for 2007 across the contiguous United States is expected to be near 54.3 degrees Fahrenheit _ making the year the eighth warmest since records were first begun in 1895,...

Confirming what many farmers, boaters and others already knew, the government reported Tuesday that the drought parching much of the West and Southeast spread into the Mid-Atlantic area in September.At the end of September about 43 percent of the...

Confirming what many farmers, boaters and others already knew, the government reported Tuesday that the drought parching much of the West and Southeast spread into the Mid-Atlantic area in September.At the end of the month, about 43 percent of the...