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As world leaders gathered in Copenhagen Monday for the start of the United Nations climate conference, leaked e-mails from an internationally-renowned climate research unit threaten to overshadow the talks.
Members of the Nobel-winning panel of climate scientists rose on Tuesday to defend colleagues that they said had been "targeted" for email hacking to sway the outcome of the UN global warming talks.
Delegates to a pivotal climate conference welcomed an Obama administration move Monday to regulate greenhouse gases under existing clean air law, but said they still expect more.
Copenhagen, Denmark, is 5,000 miles away from New Orleans, Louisiana. But representatives of the 192 nations gathering this week at the climate change conference need to keep the memory of a flooded New Orleans in mind.
The European Commission applauded on Tuesday the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to pave the way for federal limits on emissions of carbon dioxide.
Throughout the last 10 years, news events have rushed at us with an unstoppable force: September 11, the Asian tsunami, the financial meltdown, the 2008 presidential election. In each of their aftermaths, we all tried to sort through the headlines and the facts. But it was often the sharp intellect and keen pen of a journalist who helped us make sense of it all. They captured the news in human ...
The United States said it had seized the climate initiative with a regulatory shift that labels greenhouse gases a dangerous pollutant, as a landmark conference entered a second day Tuesday.
To be or not to be? That is the question. Will 192 world governments agree in the next two weeks on a framework to cut emissions of greenhouse gases and thereby combat climate change? Or will they dither and divide at the Copenhagen climate summit , as they did with previous efforts, including the ineffectual Kyoto Protocol ? [More]
The agency said the gases posed a danger to human health and the environment, paving the way for regulation of emissions.
COPENHAGEN — A draft text leaked to news organizations Tuesday has disrupted the Copenhagen climate talks, outraging poor nations who feel that the agreement gives far too much power to developed countries.
An EPA ruling that greenhouse gases threaten public health gives the Obama administration power to regulate emissions that feed global warming.
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that global warming pollution endangered the health and welfare of Americans and must be reduced, a move that seemed timed to signal that the U.S. is serious about joining an international bid to reduce the risks of damaging climate change.
COPENHAGEN – The 20,000 or so participants in the international climate change conference here begin Day 2 of their proceedings with clarity about just one thing.
The display of green is all part of a colorful, occasionally amusing effort by corporations, non-profit groups and governments to make the climate summit as "green" as possible.
Americans who think global warming is caused by human activity, including vehicle and industrial emissions, are now a minority for the first time in nearly two years, a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll said Monday.
The NASA scientist who accused agency administrators and the Bush White House of manipulating public releases of climate data says he is disappointed that President Obama hasn't taken more action on the issue.
( Science in China Press ) Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (CAMS) in Beijing initiated network observation at the four Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) stations: Waliguan, Shangdianzi, Lin'an and Longfengshan in China. It has shown for the first time the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) mixing ratios and regional differences based on internationally recognized weekly air sampling data ...
A big meeting in Copenhagen. A cap-and-trade bill in Congress. And now, a determination by the Environmental Protection Agency that global warming pollution is a threat to public health — a move that clears the way for the first-ever federal regulations targeting climate-changing emissions.
December 8, 2009
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 8 (IPS) - Vested interests in fossil fuels have blocked major steps against global warming so far, according to José Goldemberg, who has played a leading role at key times in the climate crisis facing humanity. Inter Press Service read more
The Obama administration took a major step Monday toward imposing the first federal limits on climate-changing pollution from cars, power plants and factories, declaring there was compelling scientific evidence that global warming from manmade greenhouse gases endangers Americans' health.
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