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Rising temperatures over the next few decades will unleash storms, floods and drought across China's Yangtze River Basin, a new report says, raising the prospect of catastrophe for a region that is home to nearly a third of the country's population.
Rising temperatures over the next few decades will unleash storms, floods and drought across China's Yangtze River Basin, a new report says, raising the prospect of catastrophe for a region that is home to nearly a third of the country's population.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Tuesday for the U.S., China and India to make substantive pledges of action against global warming in order to prevent the failure of next month's climate summit in Copenhagen.
India's environment minister came under fire Tuesday from scientists for denying climate change was causing Himalayan glaciers to melt and disputing the work of the UN's top global warming body.
The people of this small Dutch town are not against pumping tons of carbon dioxide into the ground to fight global warming.
Next month's climate summit in Copenhagen must produce a substantial agreement, and failure would set back by years efforts to fight global warming, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday.
Global warming has been blamed for the alarming loss of ice shelves in Antarctica, but a new study says newly-exposed areas of sea are now soaking up some of the carbon gas that causes the problem.
The title of an upcoming Festival of Thinkers panel, "Future Resources: Envisioning Sustainable Development," only begins to hint at the broad range of interconnected subjects that go into any discussion of sustainability -- ranging from ecological concerns and population control to economic disparity and social disruption. Panelists will discuss the prospects for sustainability as societies ...
The International Energy Agency said energy costs would quickly escalate unless an agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions is adopted.
LONDON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Each year the world delays implementing a global climate-protection deal will add $500 billion to the costs related to greenhouse gas emissions reductions, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday.
The pickers working their way along the hillside, clipping bunches of small, dark purple grapes from the rows of vines and dropping them into plastic buckets are harbingers of a warmer planet.
A global climate change agreement could seriously dampen crude oil demand, but it's not a sure thing. Here are ways to play different outcomes using ETFs.
The International Energy Agency says that without a global agreement on climate change, the ratio of energy spending to gross domestic product will double by 2030.
Baxter Pharr: Facts support human-caused climate change Baxter Pharr Silverthorne In response to Dr. Hertzberg's editorial: "The greatest scientific hoax of this century," Dr. Hertzberg claims Al Gore, the IPCC, and Jim Hansen are trying to perpetrate a hoax on the rest of us by convincing us that global warming is a reality. Al Gore and the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ...
SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- How to finance clean-energy programs in developing countries is still one of the main roadblocks in global climate talks due to climax in December in Copenhagen, Brazil's chief negotiator said Tuesday.
The Environmental Protection Agency has sent its final scientific finding on greenhouse gases to the White House, agency officials said Monday, a step that could trigger regulation of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases as pollutants under the Clean Air Act.
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Political agreement on Australia’s carbon reduction laws will be difficult to achieve, Climate Change Minister Penny Wong said, as talks continue with the opposition party on proposed changes to the program.
Some environmentalists believe CO2 storage projects are needed, as coal power is likely to stick around
Mentioning global warming, climate change, or even CO2 emissions in any circle is likely to be met with some sort of reaction. What some call the “biggest challenge of our times,” others call “a hoax.”
DUBLIN, Ireland (CNS) -- Global climate change is "one of the most critical issues of our time," and how people respond to it will "have consequences for the future of every person and every form of life," said Ireland's Catholic bishops.
Boxer and Inhofe exchange gag gifts more than jabs.
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