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Sep 23, 2014 (AFP)

World leaders on Tuesday urged ambitious action to combat climate change and promised to make greater efforts, but a tough road lay ahead with a year to go for ...

World urged to change course at UN climate summit

Sep 23, 2014 (AFP)

World leaders at a UN summit billed as the largest-ever gathering on climate change faced calls Tuesday to take bold action to reverse global warming. "Today, w...

World leaders urged to change course at UN climate summit

Sep 23, 2014 (AFP)

The largest gathering of world leaders on climate change opens at the United Nations on Tuesday amid calls for action to put the planet on course toward reversi...

Obama readies climate change push at UN summit

Sep 22, 2014 (AFP)

President Barack Obama will seek to galvanize international support in the fight against climate change on Tuesday when he addresses the United Nations, with ti...

Fossil fuel divestment brightens climate summit

Sep 22, 2014 (AFP)

The Rockefellers, the first family of oil, said Monday they would divest from fossil fuels in a fresh boost to the fight against climate change ahead of a UN su...

UN summit to test commitment to climate fund

Sep 21, 2014 (AFP)

A global fund created to spearhead climate change financing faces a key test at a UN summit this week when it looks to the leaders of the industrialised world t...

Green dream: Can UN summit revive climate issue?

Sep 20, 2014 (AFP)

Five years ago, the environment movement was in its heyday as politicians, actors, rock stars and protestors demanded a looming UN summit brake the juggernaut o...

Last month was hottest August since 1880: US

Sep 18, 2014 (AFP)

Last month was the hottest August on record for global average temperatures over land and ocean surfaces, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...

Ocean-threatened Marshall's leader posts climate video plea

Sep 18, 2014 (AFP)

Marshall Islands President Christopher Loeak was forced to heightened the seawall protecting his home last year but says the year-old defences are now barely en...

Global carbon cycle may require reappraisal of historical climate events

Sep 17, 2014 (SPX)

A recent study of the global carbon cycle offers a new perspective of Earth's climate records through time. Scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstie...

World will 'change course' on climate at UN summit: envoy

Sep 17, 2014 (AFP)

A UN summit on climate change will see the world "change course" and begin to seriously tackle global warming, UN climate envoy Mary Robinson said Wednesday. Mo...

Australian PM Abbott to skip UN climate summit

Sep 16, 2014 (AFP)

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who recently abolished a carbon tax on greenhouse gas emissions, said Tuesday he would skip a United Nations climate chan...

Tiny Diamonds Point To Cosmic Impact For Major Period of Climate Change

Sep 16, 2014 (SPX)

Around 12,800 years ago, a sudden, catastrophic event plunged much of the Earth into a period of cold climatic conditions and drought. This drastic climate chan...

Rules of thumb for climate change turned upside down

Sep 16, 2014 (SPX)

Based on models and observations, climate scientists have devised a simplified formula to describe one of the consequences of climate change: regions already ma...

Slow-down in global warming enhanced by an unusual climate anomaly

Sep 15, 2014 (SPX)

A hiatus in global warming ongoing since 2001 is due to a combination of a natural cooling phase, known as multidecadal variability (MDV) and a downturn of the ...

Texas social studies textbooks to teach climate change doubt

Sep 15, 2014 (UPI)

As a number of newly proposed social studies textbooks in Texas present it, climate change is a contentious and controversial issue which remains up for debate ...

ADB, World Bank and others back climate financing

Sep 11, 2014 (UPI)

The World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and four other international institutions said Thursday they reinforced their commitment to climate financing. ADB Vi...

Birth of a mineral

Sep 10, 2014 (SPX)

One of the most important molecules on earth, calcium carbonate crystallizes into chalk, shells and minerals the world over. In a study led by the Department of...

Carbon stored in soils more vulnerable to climate change than expected

Sep 05, 2014 (SPX)

The response of soil microbial communities to changes in temperature increases the potential for more carbon dioxide to be released from the world's soils as gl...

U.N. climate envoy sees lack of leadership in climate debate

Sep 02, 2014 (UPI)

U.N. Special Envoy for Climate Change Mary Robinson said Tuesday from the Pacific island of Samoa there was a general lack of low-carbon leadership. Robinson sa...