At a Glance The mayor of Tangier Island, Virginia, says President Donald Trump called him on Monday.Trump reassured the mayor, saying the island will be around for hundreds of years to come.Scientists predict the island could become uninhabitable within 50 years due to rising seas. President Donald Trump offered words of encouragement Monday to the mayor of Virginia's sinking Tangier Island, saying residents do not need to worry about rising seas. After he appeared on totalk about his home and...

In this photo taken Wednesday, June 7, 2017, U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry attends the opening ceremony of an international clean energy conference held in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) Energy Secretary Rick Perry received a schooling on climate change Wednesday by a meteorological research group. In response to Perry's declaration Monday that carbon dioxide was not the driving force behind global warming, Keith L. Seitter, executive director of theAmerican Meteorological Society, making it very clear that he is...

At a Glance A new study concluded 300,000 square miles of an Antarctic ice sheet was impacted by a melt event in January 2016.The water refroze, but scientists say it paints a daunting picture of the future of ice melt in West Antarctica. Scientists have officially documented final results of a hugemelt event last year in West Antarctica, and it doesn't bode well for the future. The study, , concludedJanuary 2016's ice melt at the Ross Ice Sheet impacted 300,000...