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UN climate watchdog backs new greenhouse gas protocol
Jun 07, 2012 (AFP)
A UN climate science task force urged on Thursday the adoption of new measures aimed at providing the broadest and most accurate snapshot of carbon emissions ah...
Geoengineering: A whiter sky
Jun 05, 2012 (SPX)
One idea for fighting global warming is to increase the amount of aerosols in the atmosphere, scattering incoming solar energy away from the Earth's surface. Bu...
Rio+20 should be Tahrir Square for greens: Silva
Jun 05, 2012 (AFP)
Activist and former Brazilian presidential candidate Marina Silva called Tuesday for protests matching the magnitude of Egypt's Tahrir Square demonstrations at ...
Is California preparing for climate change?
Jun 04, 2012 (SPX)
A majority of California's coastal planners and resource managers now view the threats from climate change as sufficiently likely that practical steps on the gr...
Brazil spends $1.3 mln to ease NE drought: Rousseff
Jun 04, 2012 (AFP)
Brazil will spend $1.3 million to send water to the drought-ravaged northeast which is in the grips of its worst dry spell in a half-century, President Dilma Ro...
Iraq 'green belt' front line in anti-desertification fight
Jun 03, 2012 (AFP)
Trees as far as the eye can see are the weapons one Iraqi province is using in the fight against desertification in a country where decades of conflict have exa...
Yale study concludes public apathy over climate change unrelated to science literacy
May 30, 2012 (SPX)
Are members of the public divided about climate change because they don't understand the science behind it? If Americans knew more basic science and were more p...
Climate change led to collapse of ancient Indus civilization
May 29, 2012 (SPX)
A new study combining the latest archaeological evidence with state-of-the-art geoscience technologies provides evidence that climate change was a key ingredien...
Brazil readies 15,000 security forces for Rio summit
May 28, 2012 (AFP)
The Brazilian military will coordinate the deployment of 15,000 security personnel during next month's UN summit on sustainable development here, Defense Minist...
Slow progress since Earth Summit 20 years ago
May 26, 2012 (AFP)
Twenty years after the Earth Summit in Rio pledged to save the environment for future generations, observers and policy makers agree swifter action is required ...
Climate pact process stumbles as countries bicker in Bonn
May 25, 2012 (AFP)
Less than six months after the world agreed to craft a new global climate pact by 2015, talks stumbled at a crucial preparatory meeting Friday as rich and poore...
For Qatar, climate forum offers a test but also a chance
May 25, 2012 (AFP)
As the world's biggest emitter per capita of greenhouse gases, Qatar faces a test of credibility but also an opportunity when it hosts the UN forum on climate c...
Sahel food crisis to remain critical in coming months: UN
May 24, 2012 (AFP)
UN aid chief Valerie Amos said Thursday that a humanitarian crisis arising from food shortages in the drought-stricken Sahel would remain critical in the next f...
1,000 years of climate data confirms Australia's warming
May 24, 2012 (SPX)
In the first study of its kind in Australasia, scientists have used 27 natural climate records to create the first large-scale temperature reconstruction for th...
China hits back at claims it is blocking climate talks
May 24, 2012 (AFP)
China hit back Thursday at claims it was holding up global climate talks in Germany, saying the United States, Europe and other rich states were the ones applyi...
Kyoto Protocol architect 'frustrated' by climate dialogue
May 23, 2012 (AFP)
UN climate talks are going nowhere, as politicians dither or bicker while the pace of warming dangerously speeds up, one of the architects of the Kyoto Protocol...
EU warns climate talks at risk of floundering
May 23, 2012 (AFP)
Europe warned at climate talks in Bonn on Wednesday that efforts to forge a new global pact to avert environmental disaster were in danger of floundering, and s...
Cattle dying, fields scorched as drought strikes Senegal
May 18, 2012 (AFP)
In the northeastern nook of Senegal, one of the most stable and developed nations in the drought-hit Sahel region, carcasses of cattle lie in the sun, the field...
'Citizen science' tracking climate change
May 18, 2012 (UPI)
An American beech tree grows in Judy Wagner's backyard. For the past 18 years the retired health policy analyst has watched as the tree grew. First it became ta...
Measuring CO2 to fight global warming
May 18, 2012 (SPX)
If the world's nations ever sign a treaty to limit emissions of climate-warming carbon dioxide gas, there may be a way to help verify compliance: a new method d...
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