...In an authoritative 2007 assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the U.N.-sponsored scientific network, cited multiple studies linking the spread of wildfires to warmer, drier conditions. This June, in the latest...

...to launch a joint investigation of rapid methane release. And IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri in July asked his scientific network to focus on "abrupt, irreversible climate change" from thawing permafrost. The data will come from teams like...