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UN pushes ahead on 2015 climate deal after marathon
Dec 14, 2014 (AFP)
UN members pressed ahead Sunday with a vision for a historic pact to defeat climate change by adopting a format for national pledges to cut Earth-warming greenh...
Help U.S. Cope with Climate Change: Enter NASA-USGS Data App Challenge
Dec 14, 2014 (SPX)
NASA in partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is offering more than $35,000 in prizes to citizen scientists for ideas that make use of climate data...
Climate change: What now for the Paris accord?
Dec 14, 2014 (AFP)
Four years ago, the world's nations vowed to forge a pact by the end of 2015 that would tame climate change and bequeath a safer planet to future generations. O...
Fingers pointed as climate talks deadlock
Dec 13, 2014 (AFP)
Accusations flew at deadlocked UN climate talks in Lima on Saturday, as the United States warned that failure to compromise could doom the 22-year-old global fo...
Climate talks run into overtime as nations clash
Dec 13, 2014 (AFP)
UN climate talks spilled into an extra day Saturday as negotiators battled in Lima to end a standoff between rich and developing nations on the underpinnings of...
'Creeping humanitarian crisis' in drought-hit Central America: UN
Dec 12, 2014 (AFP)
A drawn-out drought in Central America has pushed some 2.5 million people in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador into food insecurity, the UN warned Friday. The...
Don't wreck deal, US warns, as climate talks jam
Dec 12, 2014 (AFP)
The United States urged developing countries Thursday to ease objections to a world deal on climate change as deadlines loomed at a 12-day UN meeting in Lima. T...
Abandoned wells can be 'super-emitters' of greenhouse gas
Dec 10, 2014 (SPX)
Princeton University researchers have uncovered a previously unknown, and possibly substantial, source of the greenhouse gas methane to the Earth's atmosphere. ...
Chesapeake Bay Region Streams are Warming
Dec 10, 2014 (SPX)
The majority of streams in the Chesapeake Bay region are warming, and that increase appears to be driven largely by rising air temperatures. These findings are ...
Early warning signals of abrupt climate change
Dec 10, 2014 (SPX)
A new study by researchers at the University of Exeter has found early warning signals of a reorganisation of the Atlantic oceans' circulation which could have ...
Wetlands more vulnerable to invasives as climate changes
Dec 10, 2014 (SPX)
In the battle between native and invasive wetland plants, a new Duke University study finds climate change may tip the scales in favor of the invaders -- but it...
Greenpeace apologizes for stunt at ancient Peru site
Dec 10, 2014 (AFP)
Environmental group Greenpeace apologized Wednesday after Peru accused it of damaging a millenia-old archaeological site when its activists displayed a protest ...
Climate funds exceed $10 bn at Lima talks
Dec 10, 2014 (AFP)
Rich countries have pledged more than $10 billion in climate aid for poor economies, a psychological threshold at UN global warming talks in Lima, according to ...
Evidence Suggests California's Drought is the Worst in 1,200 Years
Dec 10, 2014 (SPX)
As California finally experiences the arrival of a rain-bearing Pineapple Express this week, two climate scientists from the University of Minnesota and Woods H...
Time running out fast in climate fight: UN's Ban
Dec 09, 2014 (AFP)
UN chief Ban Ki-moon urged nations Tuesday to seize a shrinking opportunity to tame global warming as ministers negotiated for a new world pact to slash soaring...
Big polluting nations must do most on climate: Australia
Dec 08, 2014 (AFP)
Nations with the biggest greenhouse gas emissions should be doing the most to fight climate change or the efforts of other countries will be cancelled out, Aust...
High-level reinforcement for final climate push
Dec 08, 2014 (AFP)
Ministers and the UN chief fly into Lima this week to bolster negotiators in a final push for consensus on key elements of a world pact to curb potentially disa...
Developing world may need annual $500 bn for climate by 2050: UN
Dec 06, 2014 (AFP)
Developing countries may need up to $500 billion per year by 2050 to adapt to the ravages of climate change, dwarfing previous estimates, a UN report said Frida...
California's drought worst in 1,200 years
Dec 05, 2014 (UPI)
California's soil is extremely parched. Its ground is cracking, its rivers and lakes are low, it valleys are shrinking, and its mountains are rising. The state'...
How Soil Microorganisms Get Out of Step through Climate Change
Dec 05, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists at Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, in collaboration with colleagues from the TU Munchen and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), have studied how ...
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