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The environmental activism group Greenpeace, no stranger to controversy, is at it again. In conjunction with the start of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Denmark, the group has teamed up with TckTckTck to plaster the Copenhagen airport with advertisements featuring drastically altered images of famous world leaders participating in the summit. Though some industry observers have labeled ...
Members of Greenpeace easily breached security and scaled two Parliament buildings in Ottawa to stage a protest on the roof Monday, the opening day of the climate conference in Copenhagen. The 19 protesters unfurled a massive banner reading "Climate Inaction...
At the climate summit taking place here, nobody's a bigger celebrity than the delegation from the tiny island nation of Tuvalu.
The EPA's decision to regulate carbon dioxide emissions saddles industry with potentially higher costs, industry groups said Monday.
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.
Republican lawmakers critical of efforts to battle climate change said they would fly next week to the Copenhagen summit to undercut President Barack Obama's promises of strong US action.
President Barack Obama called for a major new burst of federal spending Tuesday, perhaps $150 billion or more, aiming to jolt the wobbly economy into a stronger recovery and reduce painfully persistent double-digit unemployment.
If negotiators reach an accord at climate talks in Copenhagen, the global changes required will cost trillions of dollars over the next few decades.
*The global activist organization Greenpeace is sending a message to world leaders about global awareness as they head to the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Denmark.
Jobs in California's green economy increased by 36% from 1995 to 2008, beating the state's 13% job growth, a study out Wednesday says.
Evocations of Judgment Day were an undercurrent in speeches and materials on opening day in Copenhagen.
A leaked Danish document at the U.N. climate conference provoked angry criticism Tuesday from developing countries and activists who feared it would shift more of the burden to curb greenhouse gases on poorer countries.
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.
This decade is on track to become the warmest since records began in 1850, and 2009 could rank among the top-five warmest years, the U.N. weather agency reported Tuesday on the second day of a pivotal 192-nation climate conference.
After spending 16 months cycling 18,000 kilometres (11,180 miles) from Brisbane to Copenhagen, Kim Nguyen is taking part in the UN climate talks with a host of eyewitness accounts of the effects of global warming from his odyssey.
Federal officials have agreed to review air pollution standards for oil and gas operations to decide if they need to be updated.
Health experts warned Wednesday of a stroke crisis in Europe which is already costing the region's economy an estimated 38 billion euros ($56 billion) a year, with numbers expected to rise as populations age.
One of the most stirring symbols of the American West -- mustangs thundering freely across the range -- could be heading east.
It is one of the grim paradoxes of climate change that nations on the front line of global warming are among those with the least political clout at the United Nations conference in Copenhagen.
The Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a new national strategy to enforce safe drinking water laws in small, rural communities on Tuesday and pledged to redouble efforts to protect children from toxic water in schools.
Half the mammals that have died off in the last 200 years have met their end in Australia. Now some scientists are suggesting that keeping native species as pets could help them keep a place on the planet
