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Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Rajendra Pachauri , the top United Nations climate-change scientist, said the panel he heads is “transparent and objective,” dismissing allegations by global- warming skeptics that UN data were manipulated.
On December 7, President Barack Obama will host Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey at the White House. It will be the first formal meeting between the two leaders since April, when Obama visited Turkey early in his administration. Afghanistan and Iran are expected to be the main issues on their agenda. However, there are other important issues that could come up. read more
Washington (AP) - Officials tell The Associated Press that the Environmental Protection Agency has concluded greenhouse gases are endangering people's health and must be regulated.
While most people are getting ready for the holidays, the Queens Chamber of Commerce has one major event left on its 2009 calendar – the 97th Annual Building Awards and Reception.
A dedication to helping others that started in Guyana has carried over to the United States for Richmond Hill resident Karran Jainarain.
E-mails stolen from the Climatic Research Unit appeared to show some of world's leading scientists discussing ways to shield data from public scrutiny and suppress others' work.
Fresh from signing on to help green Silicon Valley, startup Hara will be at climate talks in Copenhagen this week to urge that corporations not wait for regulations to fight global warming.
Gaza - The German mediator negotiating a prisoner swap between Israel and Hamas movement arrived in the Gaza Strip to deliver Israel's response to Islamist group's conditions for freeing an Israeli soldier held in the salient, al-Jazeera said Monday....
The largest and most important U.N. climate change conference in history opened Monday, with organizers warning diplomats from 192 nations that this could be the last best chance for a deal to protect the world from...
Washington Post: 2003 Report and Other Sources Detail 91 Instances of Secret Service Breakdowns Since 1980
Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Now that U.S. President Barack Obama has given fresh impetus to climate-change negotiations in Copenhagen, corporate leaders supporting an agreement to control greenhouse-gas emissions are pressing anew for action.
Sinatra: New York Frank Sinatra (Rhino, 4-CD, 1-DVD, $79.99) “He may have been born in Hoboken,” Martin Scorsese writes of Frank Sinatra in the liner notes to this set, “but his music is unthinkable without New York and its energy,...
President Barack Obama is looking for help in Afghanistan from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan even as tensions simmer between the two NATO allies on Iran and the Middle East.
Michael Jackson and Mother Teresa. Stephen Hawking and the Dalai Lama. And now, Shakira.
The Tata Swach, Hindi for 'clean,' meets EPA standards, doesn't require running water, electricity, or boiling, and is affordable to the mass of rural Indian consumers.
The following is a joint statement issued today by Jim Rogers, chairman, president and CEO of Duke Energy, the third-largest electric power holding company in the U.S., and Wang Yusuo, chairman of ENN Group, one of the largest private energy companies in China.
BALTIMORE----Constellation Energy today released the following statement regarding the 15th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Denmark, Copenhagen, Dec. 7 -18, 2009.
Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Rajendra Pachauri , the top United Nations climate-change scientist, said the panel he heads is “transparent and objective,” dismissing allegations by global- warming skeptics that UN data were manipulated.
The largest and most important U.N. climate change conference in history opened Monday, with organizers warning diplomats from 192 nations that this could be the best, last chance for a deal to protect the world from calamitous global warming.
Attention: Assignment Editor, Environment Editor, News Editor, World News Editor, Government/Political Affairs Editor TORONTO, ONTARIO, NEWS RELEASE--(Marketwire - Dec. 7, 2009) - "Climate change represents the greatest moral challenge of our time. How we respond is a test of our courage," says The United Church of Canada's Moderator, Mardi Tindal. Tindal travels to Copenhagen this week as part ...
A global meeting of nearly 200 nations seeking what has so far been elusive common ground on climate change got under way on Monday in Copenhagen.
