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Climate change more important than partisan politics: Schwarzenegger
Jun 24, 2017 (AFP)
"It is absolutely imperative that we not make it a political issue," he said. "This is not the right versus the left because there is no liberal air or conserva...
Starvation looms as food runs out in drought-hit Ethiopia
Jun 22, 2017 (AFP)
It's an appropriate name, they say, because this drought has left no person untouched, spared no corner of their arid region. And it has forced 7.8 million peop...
OECD: Air pollution, urbanization offsetting gains in renewables
Jun 21, 2017 (UPI)
"While there are signs of greening growth, most countries show progress on just one or two fronts and little on the others," OECD Environment Director Simon Upt...
NASA-MIT Study Evaluates Efficiency of Oceans as Heat Sink, Atmospheric Gases Sponge
Jun 20, 2017 (SPX)
New NASA research is one of the first studies to estimate how much and how quickly the ocean absorbs atmospheric gases and contrast it with the efficiency of he...
World Bank: Middle East conflicts impede climate and other objectives
Jun 19, 2017 (UPI)
An annual report on the Jordanian economy from the World Bank found shocks from crises in Syria and Iraq have stifled trade lines and pushed expansion to around...
France pledges $34 mln for foreign climate experts
Jun 17, 2017 (AFP)
The move comes two weeks after President Emmanuel Macron criticised his US counterpart Donald Trump for pulling out of the UN's Paris climate agreement -- calli...
Understanding multi-decadal global warming rate changes
Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)
The multi-decadal global warming rate changes are primarily attributed to multiple ocean surface temperature changes, according to research by Institute of Atmo...
EU's Juncker says no Paris climate deal renegotiation
Jun 14, 2017 (AFP)
Trump's decision two weeks ago to pull out of the landmark pact was "a sign of abdication from common action", Juncker told the European Parliament. Trump has m...
Trump was 'wrong' to leave climate change deal: UK minister
Jun 13, 2017 (AFP)
"I think he is wrong. I think that we need international cooperation in order to deal with climate change," said Michael Gove, who was appointed by Prime Minist...
US isolated as allies vow accelerated action on climate change
Jun 12, 2017 (AFP)
A two-day meeting of environment chiefs from the Group of Seven club of industrialised democracies ended with the US again disassociating itself from a statemen...
Climate change rift raises temperature for G7 meet
Jun 11, 2017 (AFP)
Scott Pruitt, a friend of the oil industry who is sceptical about man-made climate change and was Trump's controversial choice to head the US Environmental Prot...
China rolls out green carpet for California on climate
Jun 09, 2017 (AFP)
Since Trump's decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate deal, China has repeatedly vowed to uphold the accord and work with American states th...
Earliest human impact on geological processes took place 11,500 years ago
Jun 07, 2017 (SPX)
"Human impact on the natural environment is now endangering the entire planet," said Prof. Shmuel Marco, Head of TAU's School of Geosciences, who led the resear...
Tillerson: Paris not an isolationist move
Jun 06, 2017 (UPI)
President Donald Trump sparked international critiques with a decision to end the U.S. role in the Paris climate treaty, which would require about three years f...
US 'on the wrong side of history' on climate: French UN envoy
Jun 06, 2017 (AFP)
"America is perceived as being, on this, on the wrong side of history," Ambassador Francois Delattre told reporters. Trump announced the US exit from the 190-pl...
Quantifying the effects of climate change
Jun 06, 2017 (ESA)
Estimates show that the global sea level is rising by about 3 mm a year. This is one of the major threats of global warming, especially for low-lying coastal ar...
Exit has 'galvanized' US support behind Paris accord; Bloomberg speaks out
Jun 05, 2017 (AFP)
In an interview with AFP, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna pointed to strong US state, local and corporate rebukes of Trump's move and vows to press ahead...
Trump wants to 'stay engaged' on climate: Tillerson
Jun 05, 2017 (AFP)
Trump's decision, which has been roundly denounced by the international community, was based on his belief that it "did not serve the American people", Tillerso...
Isolated US lashes out at climate critics
Jun 03, 2017 (AFP)
With the United States virtually isolated on the world stage, a string of administration officials went on the offensive Friday to justify the Republican presid...
California plots to fight 'AWOL' Trump on climate
Jun 03, 2017 (AFP)
No sooner had President Donald Trump made his announcement on Thursday to pull out of the landmark Paris climate deal, that Brown fired off a statement decrying...
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