Amchitka: The concert that launched Greenpeace
The Star-Ledger - Thu Dec 3, 5:43 pm ETJoni Mitchell, James Taylor and others played the 1970 Greenpeace benefit concert in Vancouver.
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Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and others played the 1970 Greenpeace benefit concert in Vancouver.
The Asian Development Bank said Friday it would invest 700 million dollars to help member countries adapt to climate change and develop renewable energy technologies.
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China will need to invest up to 30 billion dollars a year to meet its goal of curbing greenhouse gas emissions, the state press said Friday, citing an academic study.
Leaders have refused to sign any pact that would inhibit the country’s growth, but India is considered especially vulnerable to the problems attributed to global warming.
The shopping list includes wind farms, seawalls and even real estate — new homelands for flooded-out islanders. And poor countries want to present the bill to the rich at next week's climate talks in Copenhagen.
The president of the Maldives has said that he would use the UN climate summit in Copenhagen to appeal for immediate cash to fend off the rising sea levels that threaten his atoll nation.
Thursday's Sports Transactions
The discovery of a plaster death mask adds one more chapter to the odyssey of Cpl. Ira Hamilton Hayes.
Communities in the Bay Area wrestle with whether private-public partnerships in municipal services make financial and environmental sense during tough economic times.
Almost everything about the thoroughly remade 2010 Subaru Legacy sedan is impressive.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama signaled he’ll push for initiatives on energy efficiency and infrastructure spending as ways to spur job growth.
NEW DELHI -- India on Thursday offered a plan to unilaterally slow the pace of its carbon emissions by 2020 and assured lawmakers that the offer does not amount to a sellout of national interests.
An economist at the Office of Management and Budget who has battled environmentalists for years on issues such as climate change and smog has raised questions about the economic impact of a proposed new rule on air pollution, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.
On May 3, 2007, League of Conservation Voters President Gene Karpinski realized that the plan was working.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Nepal’s Cabinet issued a declaration on climate change after an outdoor meeting in the shadow of Mount Everest, in a region where shrinking glaciers threaten rivers essential to development in China, India and Pakistan.
President Barack Obama promised at a White House jobs forum on Thursday to take "every responsible step to accelerate job creation," including some ideas he said could be put into action quickly. He cited an expanded program to help make more U.S. homes energy-efficient as an example.
San Francisco, Philadelphia, Seattle and Cincinnati are among cities that have recently created special parking areas for scooters.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn a water discharge permit for a controversial coal mining operation in northern Arizona pending public hearings.
A university that the U.N. has relied on for evidence of global warming said it would probe whether data was fudged to support warming claims.
A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked construction of a massive gold mine project in northeast Nevada that critics say would harm the environment and ruin a mountain several tribes consider sacred.