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Al Gore joins Australian mining tycoon in climate change plan
Jun 25, 2014 (AFP)
Former US vice president Al Gore Wednesday hailed recent moves by the United States and other nations to confront climate change as "extraordinary", and encoura...
Differing patterns of climate change in the North and South
Jun 25, 2014 (SPX)
Korean research team revealed conflicting climate change patterns between the middle latitude areas of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres in relation to glac...
Report sees hefty cost of climate change on US economy
Jun 24, 2014 (AFP)
The US faces huge economic costs from climate change, including massive property loss from sea-level rise and major declines in some crop yields, according to a...
Court mostly backs US effort to cut greenhouse gases
Jun 23, 2014 (AFP)
The Supreme Court on Monday nibbled away at President Barack Obama's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions but broadly upheld the effort to fight clima...
Climate change winners and losers
Jun 23, 2014 (SPX)
The Antarctic Peninsula, the northern most region of Antarctica, is experiencing some of the most dramatic changes due to climate warming, including population ...
Former US climate chiefs urge political unity
Jun 18, 2014 (AFP)
Four former heads of the US Environmental Protection Agency who served under Republican presidents urged lawmakers Wednesday to stop bickering over whether clim...
Climate change beats biodiversity as a priority
Jun 16, 2014 (SPX)
As climate change has become a more prominent public concern, some scientists have worried that it might distract attention from related environmental problems,...
Minimum CO2 price of $32 needed to curb warming: study
Jun 16, 2014 (AFP)
A global carbon price of at least $32 (24 euros) per tonne is needed by 2015 to apply an effective brake on global warming -- almost five times today's European...
Struggling climate talks look to UN summit for push
Jun 15, 2014 (AFP)
A new round of talks on climate change sputtered to a close on Sunday, placing the onus on a UN summit in September to boost momentum for a global pact by the e...
Obama renews climate change push
Jun 14, 2014 (AFP)
President Barack Obama renewed his campaign to curb carbon emissions Saturday, saying the debate over climate change is over. Obama, who made the battle against...
A plan to share the carbon budget burden
Jun 13, 2014 (SPX)
Climate change is an issue of urgent international importance, but for 20 years, the international community has been unable to agree on a coordinated way to re...
Warming climates intensify greenhouse gas given out by oceans
Jun 13, 2014 (SPX)
Rising global temperatures could increase the amount of carbon dioxide naturally released by the world's oceans, fuelling further climate change, a study sugges...
Football: Brazil's World Cup also a test bed for climate change
Jun 12, 2014 (AFP)
Beyond the spectacle of 32 nations battling for the greatest prize in football, the World Cup is also a test bed for tackling climate-damaging carbon emissions ...
Quarter of Djibouti population desperate for drought aid: UN
Jun 12, 2014 (AFP)
Nearly a quarter of the population in drought-hit Djibouti is in desperate need of aid, with malnutrition and a dramatic lack of water causing a mass exodus fro...
How Earth avoided global warming, last time around
Jun 12, 2014 (SPX)
Geochemists have calculated a huge rise in atmospheric CO2 was only avoided by the formation of a vast mountain range in the middle of the ancient supercontinen...
Climate change causes winners and losers in penguins
Jun 12, 2014 (AFP)
Penguin species in the Antarctic that once benefited from rising temperatures are now in decline due to warming gone too far, scientists said Thursday. Previous...
Tokyo reviews cost, environmental impact of 2020 Games venues
Jun 11, 2014 (AFP)
Tokyo is putting its planned venues for the 2020 Olympics under a microscope due to surging construction costs and environmental concerns, the megacity's top of...
Climate not to blame for the disappearance of large mammals
Jun 10, 2014 (SPX)
Was it mankind or climate change that caused the extinction of a considerable number of large mammals about the time of the last Ice Age? Researchers at Aarhus ...
Climate engineering can't erase climate change
Jun 10, 2014 (SPX)
Tinkering with climate change through climate engineering isn't going to help us get around what we have to do says a new report authored by researchers at six ...
Teachers and Scientists Meet at NASA GISS for Climate Change Workshop
Jun 10, 2014 (SPX)
On April 28, 2014, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York hosted a unique gathering for secondary teachers, climate researchers and edu...
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