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Indonesia plans to deport seven foreign Greenpeace activists involved in a protest against deforestation, seen as a contributor to global warming, the group said Thursday.
A bloody pirate attack off Benin's coast is raising concerns that Nigerian pirates — operating on the opposite side of Africa from Somali pirates — are extending their reach and shows that the waters off West Africa are almost equally dangerous, a maritime expert said.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Corporate America has been thinking about how to comply with a U.S. commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for years, executives and analysts say.
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Australian leader Kevin Rudd will today try to force through legislation aimed at reducing carbon emissions, days before he flies to Washington for talks with President Barack Obama on global warming.
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Australia will approve legislation aimed at reducing carbon emissions next week and Liberal Party head Malcolm Turnbull will survive a challenge to his leadership, according to the opposition’s top negotiator on the bill.
From prolonged droughts to melting ice caps to heavy flooding and unpredictable weather patterns, climate change effects are already wrecking lives in Africa, the continent that pollutes the least.
President Obama will go to Copenhagen next month, a White House official said Wednesday, to participate in a long-anticipated, high-stakes global climate summit.
President Obama will commit the United States to substantial cuts in greenhouse gas pollution over the next decade despite resistance in Congress over higher costs when he travels to a major climate conference in Copenhagen next month.
Tom Tobin offers an alternative theory of which health care stocks will get a boost from the graying of America.
President Barack Obama will commit the United States to substantial cuts in greenhouse gas pollution over the next decade — despite resistance in Congress over higher costs — when he travels to a major climate conference in Copenhagen next month.
The U.S. Forest Service will be selling surplus vehicles and equipment by public Internet auction Nov. 30- Dec. 7. The Shasta-Trinity and Mendocino National Forests will be selling 130 items, including cars, trucks, heavy equipment and miscellaneous equipment to the highest Internet bidders.
Police broke up a protest by the environmental group Greenpeace against deforestation on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Thursday, arresting 12 foreign and six Indonesian demonstrators, an activist said.
More than 1,200 acres of scenic meadow land and a spectacular waterfall in California have been bought by the U.S. Forest Service.
FRESH AIR AND VIEWS Bernal Heights Natural Area is an off-leash dog park. SAN FRANCISCO — As fires raged downtown after the 1906 earthquake, residents of this city fled to two nearby districts to the south, Bernal Heights and Glen Park. Though part of San Francisco , both areas looked more like countryside then, with open ranchland, vineyards and orchards, dirt roads and wetlands, and a few ...
DRIFTLESS FISHING Brad Johansen works a spinner on an unnamed river. DECORAH, Iowa — “We can’t fish my favorite trout stream today, because there’s a Jersey bull in the pasture there that hates me.”
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Pledges by China and the U.S. to set numerical targets for their greenhouse-gas emissions through 2020 may improve chances for a global climate agreement at negotiations next month in Copenhagen.
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- China, the biggest producer of greenhouse gases, set its first numerical target to slow their growth a day after the U.S. offered its own goal, giving impetus to next month’s global climate-protection talks.
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- China, the biggest producer of greenhouse gases, set its first numerical target to slow their growth a day after the U.S. offered its own goal, giving impetus to next month’s global climate-protection talks.
"Being outdoors is a big deal here," says real estate agent David Levin. And that's true for residents, visitors and second-home seekers.
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- China, the biggest producer of greenhouse gases, set its first numerical target to slow their growth a day after the U.S. offered its own goal, giving impetus to next month’s global climate-protection talks.
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Chinese alternative energy stocks, led by Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co. rose in Shanghai and Shenzhen trading after the government announced its target to curb emissions.
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