110412 Stories, most recent news story added 26 minutes ago
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 official and an activist said.
Dubai World, the conglomerate whose debt woes are roiling global financial markets, is by its own description Dubai’s “flag bearer in global investments.”
Roughly 1,000 years ago, Europe enjoyed several centuries of balmier average temperatures. Dubbed the "Medieval Warm Period," it was the last time before the present that agriculture could flourish in Greenland. This era also shows yet again that changes to natural systems can drive local climate change--and provided fodder for countless misunderstandings about the nature of present day global ...
The Swiss government agreed Thursday to release Roman Polanski on bail and place him under house arrest at his chalet in the Alps.
The United States unveiled its proposal to cut greenhouse gases by 2020 on Wednesday and said President Barack Obama will attend U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen next month -- before other world leaders show up.
President Obama will go to Copenhagen, Denmark, next month for a climate change summit, the White House said Wednesday.
Thanksgiving Day for soldiers in this valley ringed by towering snowy peaks began with a 6-mile slog to aid village schools without desks and windows, and promises to end with five, once local turkeys soldiers have been fattening up for the past month.
The use of wind power continues to soar around the world. In 2008 the U.S. actually surpassed Germany as the world’s top producer of energy from wind. It might seem that there aren’t many improvements to make to what’s essentially a passive technology. But researchers at the California Institute of Technology say the way fish school will help create more efficient designs for wind farms. They ...
As Alaska’s rural population dwindles, five schools with fewer than 10 students have closed and others are at risk.
What was closed to backcountry skiers last winter in the silver and cold morning hours will remain that way: A ski-area-ran snow study in Bear Creek will continue through this winter on the heels of an extension granted by the U.S. Forest Service.
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.
China announced Thursday that it will cut its economy's carbon intensity by up to 45 percent by 2020, the state news agency Xinhua said, and that Premier Wen Jiabao will participate in international climate negotiations in Copenhagen next month.
President Obama and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao will attend the Copenhagen climate talks next month and have pledged new targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
President Obama and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao will attend the Copenhagen climate talks next month and have pledged new targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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.
Australian authorities plan to corral about 6,000 wild camels with helicopters and gun them down after they overran a small Outback town in search of water, trampling fences, smashing tanks and contaminating supplies.
CARSON CITY -- The Bureau of Land Management has postponed a planned roundup of thousands of wild horses in Nevada because of a lawsuit and to allow time for appeals of its decision.
The commitment from the world's largest polluter builds momentum ahead of a widely anticipated climate conference in Copenhagen next month. China pledges to reduce emissions by up to 45 percent as measured against its economic output.
More than 1,200 acres of forested terrain west of Reno has been acquired by the U.S. Forest Service as part of an ongoing effort to obtain scenic land for the public.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management on Wednesday postponed a planned roundup of thousands of wild horses in Nevada because of a lawsuit and to allow time for appeals of its decision.
Much of corporate America has already been thinking about how to comply with sharp cuts when they came, and that day seems to have moved closer.
Open slideshowReuters
Open slideshowReuters
Open slideshowReuters
Open slideshowReuters
