 AFP - The French yacht Tara left on Sunday on the second leg of a three-year expedition across the world's oceans to chart the effects of climate change on micro-organisms that produce half our oxygen.
9/5/2010 6:44:42 AM |
AP - Oil billionaires David and Charles Koch have jumped on board an effort to suspend California's global warming law by making a million-dollar contribution this week. 9/4/2010 2:34:54 PM |
 Reuters - Almost 50 nations made progress on Friday towards a "Green Fund" to help poor countries fight global warming but hosts Mexico and Switzerland said a full U.N. climate treaty was out of reach for 2010.
9/3/2010 3:47:41 PM |
 AFP - Shipowners are showing growing interest in a fabled trade route to Asia which climate change is beginning to open up at last as polar ice recedes.
9/3/2010 2:59:34 PM |
 AFP - Forty-six countries gained a clearer view on Friday of what it may take to secure a deal worth hundreds of billions of dollars in climate aid, an issue that threatens hopes for a treaty on global warming.
9/3/2010 1:52:20 PM |
Reuters - A website launched on Friday will help track whether rich countries are keeping a pledge to come up with $30 billion in climate aid for the poor, seen by the U.N. as a "golden key" to progress in talks on global warming. 9/3/2010 9:48:56 AM |
Reuters - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will roll out more regulations on greenhouse gases and other pollution to help fight climate change, but they will not be as strong as action by Congress, a senior administration official said. 9/2/2010 6:17:00 PM |
 Reuters - About 45 nations met on Thursday to seek ways to raise billions of dollars in aid to help the poor combat climate change as the United Nations warned them of a long haul to slow global warming.
9/2/2010 4:25:21 PM |
AP - The U.N.'s climate chief says poor countries are right to expect that any funding they receive to combat global warming be kept separate from development aid or poverty relief. 9/2/2010 7:22:47 AM |
 AFP - Climate change could reduce key harvests in China by a fifth if the gloomiest scenarios prove true, according to a study on Wednesday.
9/2/2010 4:18:18 AM |
 AFP - India's government said it remained fully supportive of IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri after a damning UN-ordered review called for changes to the Nobel Prize-winning climate change body's leadership.
9/1/2010 3:16:54 AM |
The Christian Science Monitor - In another year, Republican state Sen. David Argall would have little chance of toppling nine-term Rep. Tim Holden (D). Mr. Holden is a popular incumbent who typically votes his district, rather than his party, on issues ranging from health care to climate change. 8/31/2010 8:34:36 AM |
 AFP - Rajendra Pachauri, under harsh scrutiny as head of the UN's top advisory body on climate change, is a 69-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner with a sideline in writing steamy novels.
8/31/2010 2:24:58 AM |
 AFP - European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton was in China Tuesday ahead of talks with top leaders on trade, climate change and security issues such as the Iran and North Korea nuclear standoffs.
8/31/2010 1:05:23 AM |
 AP - Scientists reviewing the acclaimed but beleaguered international climate change panel called Monday for a major overhaul in the way it's run, but stopped short of calling for the ouster of the current leader.
8/30/2010 5:37:43 PM |
 AFP - An international review panel on Monday called on the UN global climate change body to carry out fundamental reforms after embarrassing errors in a landmark report dented its credibility.
8/30/2010 5:04:35 PM |
LiveScience.com - A relatively new type of El Niño, featuring warmer waters in a different
part of the Pacific Ocean, is becoming more common and stronger,
according to a new study that suggests the development may help
scientists tease out the relationship between El Niños and climate
change. 8/30/2010 1:50:29 PM |
 AFP - A French climber known as "Spiderman" was arrested on the roof of a 57-storey Sydney skyscraper on Monday after scaling the building without ropes or a harness to raise climate change awareness.
8/30/2010 2:47:44 AM |
 AP - Top Mongolian officials donned dark green baseball caps reading "Save our planet" and set up chairs and tables in the sands of the Gobi desert for a Cabinet meeting aimed at drawing attention to climate change.
8/29/2010 8:34:03 PM |
 Reuters - A review due on Monday can help restore public faith in the U.N. panel of climate scientists and its finding that global warming is man-made despite errors in a 2007 report, the U.N.'s environment chief said.
8/29/2010 10:27:52 AM |