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Commonwealth nations representing one-third of the world's population threw their weight on Saturday behind accelerating efforts to clinch an "operationally binding" U.N. climate deal in Copenhagen next month.
In a recent report ranking power plants by the amount of carbon dioxide emissions released, Tenaska came up clean, at least relatively.The Nebraska-based company, pitching plans to build a coal-fired power plant near Sweetwater, wasn’t singled out by environmental group Environment America.The group earlier this week listed what it described as the 100 “dirtiest” plants.The worst emitter of ...
AMSTERDAM (AP) — From Beijing to Trinidad, governments are huddling to plan their negotiating strategies at next month's climate summit.
"We have reaped what we have sown," he said. Devastating floods have swept large parts of the country. Areas of the south and west of Ireland have been under water in the worst flooding in 800 years, according to experts.
Diverse Group Praises President’s Leadership Today, the White House announced President Obama will travel to Copenhagen on Dec. 9 to participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference, where he is eager to work with the international community to drive progress toward a comprehensive and operational Copenhagen accord. The White House also announced that, in the context of an overall ...
EU praises Russia for new pledge regarding reduction of its greenhouse gas emissions
Climategate aside, the world's best scientists agree manmade global warming is for real.
World leaders on Friday rallied to a diplomatic offensive to forge a U.N. climate deal in Copenhagen next month and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said an agreement was "within reach".
Global carbon markets may well have been hailed as the savior of the planet by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but in many ways they are doing more harm than good, according to new evidence.
Commonwealth nations Friday joined forces with European and UN leaders Friday to push for a deal to tackle global warming and overcome last-minute haggling threatening to scupper climate talks.
Tiger Woods sustained facial cuts in a minor car accident early Friday when his SUV hit a fire hydrant and a neighbor's tree as he was leaving his mansion in a gated waterfront community near Orlando, Fla.
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Beijing's decision to bring targets on carbon emissions reductions to Copenhagen is hopeful, but it is important to understand what exactly Beijing is promising -- and what it's not
The fund would provide billions in aid to poor nations to help them reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
PARIS — Global warming is giving French vintners a new potential headache: In a few years, champagne could be going head-to-head with British bubbly.
Pledges by the U.S. and China for emissions reductions still seem timid to many experts.
In an interview on the CBC's Radio One program Q last Wednesday, former US vice-president Al Gore politely criticized the Canadian government's willingness to accept a trade-off between tax revenue from oil produced in the Alberta tar sands, allegedly the "dirtiest" oil on the planet, and the environmental costs of producing that oil.
One of the joys for which I am giving thanks is all of the recent attention on a topic that is near and dear to my heart -- the cruelty and environmental harm involved in raising animals for food.
“According to a new U.N. report, the global warming outlook is much worse than originally predicted. Which is pretty bad when they originally predicted it would destroy the planet." — Jay Leno, 2006HARRISON, TENN. — For a long time, most of us...
Column written by Duane Copley Perhaps by the time you read these words of wisdom, you will have finished your Thanksgiving Day feast and are waiting for some room so you can enjoy a little dessert. I wonder what...
East Anglia hacker(s) used global path on global warming docs.
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