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Hundreds of Greenpeace activists rallied Saturday in support of a commitment by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation.
Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The Australian government will make a formal offer to Opposition politicians of a revised carbon reduction plan on Nov. 24, Climate Change Minister Penny Wong said in a television interview today.
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Thawing permafrost caused by global warming is costing Russian energy firms billions of dollars annually in damage control and shrinking Russia's territory, Greenpeace warned in a new study Friday.
Hear the jingle in your pocket from the money you'll save when you travel by BART to the Great Dickens Christmas Fair at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. Look for Mr. Bartel B. Best, who will hand out discount coupons to BART riders.
HELENA (AP) — A plan being put forward by the U.S. Forest Service calls for logging or burning 6,000 acres in the Helena National Forest that officials say have been ravaged by mountain pine beetles.
Oil spills kill fish, birds and tourist reservations. So conservationists and beach businesses alike fear that just one big one from a future offshore oil platform could muck up tourism to the tune of millions of dollars.
Sheryl Crow is joining others in calling on the federal government to halt roundups of wild horses in the West, branding them as inhumane and unnecessary. The Grammy Award-winning singer has asked President Barack Obama and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to... Barack Obama - Sheryl Crow - Federal government of the United States - United States - Grammy Award
After decades of denials from the owners of a Nevada mine, dangerous levels of uranium and arsenic in drinking water have been tied to a World War II-era copper mine.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are investigating Massey Energy's mountaintop removal operation at its Bee Tree Mine.
Electronic files that were stolen from a prominent climate research center and made public last week provide a rare glimpse into the behind-the-scenes battle to shape the public perception of global warming.
Reno author David Sundstrand's second book, "Shadows of Death" (Minotaur Books, 2009; $25.95), is a nice little thriller about animal-loving gun nuts who kill animal-hunting gun nuts in the Southwest, and the Bureau of Land Management hero caught in the middle. It's a beach read.
NEW DELHI -- As countries around the world prepare to flex their negotiating muscles at next month's climate-change summit in Copenhagen, India has begun to question the Western model of computing global warming statistics.
Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time.
One side sees hacked e-mail as a sign of a 'Warmist Conspiracy.' The other says it's being taken out of context. Analysts don't expect it to have much effect on the Senate greenhouse gas bill. Is it a "Warmist Conspiracy," or a case of an e-mail being "taken completely out of context"?
The Colombian city of Cartagena is trying to plan ahead as scientists say cities nearer the equator, where temperatures are already higher, are at greater risk if global warming isn't checked. The effect of climate change is anything but hypothetical to retired Colombian naval officer German Alfonso. Just ask him about the time his neighborhood in this historic coastal city became an island.
The Americans hope the militias will encourage an increasingly demoralized Afghan population to take a stake in the war against the Taliban.
Vladimir Gapor is a plumber by trade, but now he's a scavenger, prying bits of scrap steel from the ruins of his old factory and selling them for a pittance.
Sheryl Crow is joining others in calling on the federal government to halt roundups of wild horses in the West, branding them as inhumane and unnecessary.
Natural gas produced from shale rock formations like Texas' Barnett shale play could account for one third of total U.S. natural gas supply by 2025, up from 14 percent today, a prominent energy forecaster said Friday.
Vladimir Gapor is a plumber by trade, but now he's a scavenger, prying bits of scrap steel from the ruins of his old factory and selling them for a pittance.
