 AP - British leader David Cameron made a third unwanted shake up of his government since 2010 on Friday after Cabinet minister Chris Huhne quit as prosecutors charged him over an alleged attempt to pin a speeding penalty on his ex-wife.
2/3/2012 9:43:09 AM |
Reuters - You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. 2/2/2012 4:08:15 PM |
ContributorNetwork - The drought that still afflicts Texas has given rise to another controversy over the theory of global warming. Two eminent scientists have looked at the same data and have come to sharply different conclusions. 1/31/2012 2:34:36 PM |
Reuters - Looking at the swirling grey waters of the Bhote Koshi River, Ratna Kaji remembers when it turned into a "monster," leaving behind a trail of death and destruction. 1/27/2012 6:27:58 AM |
 AP - Coastlines, working patterns, and even the country's most famous meal are under threat from climate change, Britain said Thursday in its first-ever national assessment of the likely risks.
1/26/2012 8:47:24 AM |
Reuters - Picture this: a terrible drought forces you to abandon your meager plot of farmland, so you migrate to a city where the jobs are, only to end up living in a slum regularly submerged by floods. 1/26/2012 6:14:13 AM |
 AP - Global warming is hitting not just home, but garden. The color-coded map of planting zones often seen on the back of seed packets is being updated by the government, illustrating a hotter 21st century.
1/25/2012 7:36:18 PM |
AP - Representatives from around the world will be returning to Rio de Janeiro this June — 20 years after the U.N. Earth Summit — but this time the focus will be on sustainable development, not climate change, a Brazilian diplomat said Tuesday. 1/24/2012 9:06:35 PM |
 AP - Rising wealth in Asia and fishing subsidies are among factors driving overexploitation of the world's fish resources, while fish habitat is being destroyed by pollution and climate change, U.N. marine experts said Tuesday.
1/24/2012 5:54:11 AM |
Reuters - A weaker sun over the next 90 years is not likely to significantly delay a rise in global temperature caused by greenhouse gases, a report said Monday. 1/23/2012 4:41:52 PM |
LiveScience.com - Like dominoes given one nudge, climate change in the form of reduced winter snowfall on mountaintops has subtle but powerful cascading effects felt throughout entire ecosystems, a new study finds. 1/17/2012 4:50:03 PM |
ContributorNetwork - According to the Los Angeles Times, some states are requiring public school science teachers to teach both sides of the climate change debate. Here are the details. 1/16/2012 1:34:44 PM |
 AP - An international team of scientists says it's figured out how to slow global warming in the short run and prevent millions of deaths from dirty air: Stop focusing so much on carbon dioxide.
1/12/2012 3:54:59 PM |
Reuters - A new molecule has been detected in the earth's atmosphere which could help produce a cooling effect, scientists said, but it remains to be seen whether it can play a major role in tackling global warming. 1/12/2012 2:02:33 PM |
The Christian Science Monitor - Citing âinactionâ on renewed nuclear proliferation, climate change, and the urgent need to find sustainable sources of energy, a group of scientists has moved the âDoomsday Clockâ a minute closer to midnight, saying nations are âfailing to change business as usual.â 1/11/2012 4:46:25 PM |
AP - The most detailed data yet on emissions of heat-trapping gases show that U.S. power plants are responsible for the bulk of the pollution blamed for global warming. 1/11/2012 4:26:21 PM |
Reuters - The symbolic Doomsday Clock calculated by a group of scientists was moved a minute closer to midnight on Tuesday, with the group citing inadequate progress on nuclear weapons reduction and climate change. 1/10/2012 7:36:40 PM |
Reuters - A Sherpa who has climbed Mount Everest a record 21 times, will trek hundreds of kilometers (miles) along some of the world's highest mountains to highlight the impact of climate change on the Himalayas, organizers said on Monday. 1/10/2012 6:07:51 AM |
LiveScience.com - As climate change progresses, the planet may lose more plant and animal species than predicted, a new modeling study suggests. 1/7/2012 10:00:05 AM |
ContributorNetwork - A handful of protestors attempted to influence the public's view on the importance of climate change and the Keystone oil pipeline this week, according to the Associated Press. Approximately 40 people dressed in dark clothing and carrying a homemade mock pipeline model and cut-out resemblance of Speaker of the House John Boehner staged a protest in front of the elected official's Cincinnati area office. 12/15/2011 6:19:48 PM |