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Japan drastically scales back greenhouse gas reduction target
Nov 15, 2013 (AFP)
Japan said Friday it was dramatically scaling back its greenhouse gas reduction target after the Fukushima nuclear accident forced the country to turn to fossil...
EU, island states bitter at Japan's reduced carbon goal
Nov 15, 2013 (AFP)
Europe and the world's small island nations reacted with dismay, and green groups with fury, after Japan on Friday slashed its goal for curbing carbon emissions...
Under-fire Japans defends climate goal at UN talks
Nov 15, 2013 (AFP)
The UN, Europe and the world's small island states reacted with disappointment and green groups voiced fury after Japan on Friday slashed its goal for greenhous...
2013 marked by record sea level, weather extremes: WMO
Nov 13, 2013 (AFP)
Sea levels this year posted a record high, making low-lying coastal regions ever more vulnerable to extreme weather like super-storm Haiyan, the UN said Wednesd...
World Bank's Kim: End 'silly' debate on climate change
Nov 12, 2013 (AFP)
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said Tuesday that the deadly typhoon disaster in the Philippines should put an end to "silly" arguments denying climate change...
Climate activists down forks in solidarity with Philippines
Nov 12, 2013 (AFP)
Ecologists at UN climate talks in Warsaw downed forks Tuesday in a solidarity fast with the typhoon-ravaged Philippines' chief negotiator, demanding "ambitious ...
UN panel issues corrections for climate report
Nov 12, 2013 (AFP)
UN climate scientists have issued corrections to the summary of a key report on global warming issued in September. "Errors... were discovered by the authors of...
UN climate talks open amid 'sobering' typhoon
Nov 11, 2013 (AFP)
Nations launched a new round of talks Monday for a 2015 deal to cut Earth-warming greenhouse gas emissions, in the aftermath of a devastating Philippines typhoo...
UN climate talks amid new warnings of dire warming
Nov 08, 2013 (AFP)
UN climate talks resume in Warsaw on Monday amid a slew of warnings about a potentially disastrous rise in greenhouse-gas emissions. Though the stakes are high,...
Greenhouse gas in atmosphere hits new record: UN
Nov 06, 2013 (AFP)
The amount of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere hit a new record high in 2012, continuing an ever-faster rise that is driving climate change, the UN weathe...
Two-degree global warming limit 'ever-more elusive': UN
Nov 05, 2013 (AFP)
The chance of limiting global temperature increases to two degrees Celsius this century are swiftly diminishing, a new United Nations report warned Tuesday, ahe...
Geoengineering the climate would reduce vital rains
Nov 05, 2013 (SPX)
Although a significant build-up in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would alter worldwide precipitation patterns, a widely discussed technological approach to...
Is global heating hiding out in the oceans
Nov 05, 2013 (SPX)
A recent slowdown in global warming has led some skeptics to renew their claims that industrial carbon emissions are not causing a century-long rise in Earth's ...
Obama orders government to prepare for climate change
Nov 01, 2013 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama on Friday signed an executive order requiring government departments to take steps to prepare for "extreme weather" and other impacts ...
CO2 emissions increased at slower rate in 2012: report
Oct 31, 2013 (AFP)
The world's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions increased at a slower rate in 2012 -- 1.1 percent compared to a 2.9 percent annual increase over the past decade, a r...
Countries at climate risk to hold more GDP: report
Oct 30, 2013 (AFP)
Nearly a third of the world's economic output, some $44 trillion (32 trillion euros), will by 2025 be in countries at the highest risk of climate change effects...
Loss and damage from climate change
Oct 28, 2013 (SPX)
An open access special issue of the International Journal of Global Warming brings together, for the first time, empirical evidence of loss and damage from the ...
Reading ancient climate from plankton shells
Oct 28, 2013 (SPX)
Climate changes from millions of years ago are recorded at daily rate in ancient sea shells, new research shows. A huge X-ray microscope has revealed growth ban...
Climate change and coevolution: We've done the math
Oct 28, 2013 (SPX)
When scientists attempt to understand how climate change might reshape our environment, they must grapple with the seemingly endless complexity of interacting s...
Carbon cycle models underestimate indirect role of animals
Oct 25, 2013 (SPX)
Animal populations can have a far more significant impact on carbon storage and exchange in regional ecosystems than is typically recognized by global carbon mo...
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