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18/4/2013
Proposed amendments to the EU's biofuels policy could see distinctions made between fuels on the basis of their
climate impact.
The move was advocated in a European Parliament report into the EU's current proposals to tackle the problem ...
2/4/2013
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim vowed to boost the lender’s contribution to easing the effects of
climate change as part of a new goal to eliminate extreme poverty by 2030.
Helping mitigate shocks, including those caused by global ...
25/3/2013
The sand was the thing we noticed first. Mostly because it hadn’t been there yesterday, or any day before yesterday, and now it was absolutely everywhere.
For the first 23 hours after the storm, we hadn’t been able to see much of ...
14/2/2013
The weather: It's something everybody complains about, but the federal government isn't doing enough to address, congressional auditors say.
Climate
change and soon-to-be-obsolete weather satellites are the two new subjects listed in the ...
31/1/2013
Thembikosi Gumedze, the curator of the national seed bank in cash-strapped Swaziland, has been unable to supply much-needed drought-tolerant food crop seeds to farmers for more than two years.
He has not been able to source the US$7,000 ...
10/11/2012
For Americans concerned about the environment, disaster was avoided on Tuesday. President Obama -- with his somewhat lackluster record, if decidedly more exalted rhetoric, on global warming -- defeated the Republican challenger who had vowed to ...
7/11/2012
When President Obama referred to "the destructive power of a warming planet" in his victory speech Tuesday night, the words caught Jonathan Foley by surprise.
It wasn't because Foley, director of the University of Minnesota's Institute ...
22/10/2012
Just when it seems things couldn't get any worse for Greece, the exhausted and indebted country has a new threat to deal with: mosquito-borne diseases.
Species of the blood-sucking insects that can carry exotic-sounding tropical ...
5/10/2012
The head of the World Bank said on Thursday he is preparing broad reforms at the development lender to make it more effective in ending global poverty and will discuss the
changes with member countries at meetings in Tokyo next week.
The ...
13/9/2012
On 22 August, the Republican campaign released its “The Romney Plan For A Stronger Middle Class: ENERGY INDEPENDENCE.”
In its “Executive Summary,” the White Paper lists the “Romney Agenda” six points as: “empower states to control ...
3/4/2012
This year's frenzy of oil and gas exploration in newly accessible Arctic waters could be the harbinger of even starker
changes to come.
If, as many scientists predict, currently inaccessible sea lanes across the top of the world become ...
8/3/2012
General Motors, a company that has made strides to lower the carbon footprint of driving, is taking heat from 10,000 of its customers for a donation its charitable foundation made to an institute that casts doubt on
climate science, according to ...
7/3/2012
General Motors, a company that has made strides to lower the carbon footprint of driving, is taking heat from 10,000 of its customers for a donation its charitable foundation made to an institute that casts doubt on
climate science.
GM ...
17/2/2012
The Heartland Institute, the libertarian thinktank whose project to undermine science lessons for schoolchildren was exposed this week, faces new scrutiny of its finances – including its donors and tax status.
The Guardian has learned of ...
16/2/2012
Leaked documents from a prominent conservative think tank show how it sought to teach schoolchildren skepticism about global warming and planned other behind-the-scenes tactics using millions of dollars in donations from big corporate ...
7/2/2012
If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting someday will make the housing bubble of 2007 look like a lark. As yet - ...
20/12/2011
On the heels of the COP 17
climate talks in Durban, South Africa, the only thing surprising about Canada’s announcement on December 13 that it would no longer be a party to the Kyoto Protocol (KP) was the swiftness of its decision. Rumors had ...
5/12/2011
Global warming concerns are being pushed down the political agenda by the European debt crisis and U.S. economic slump, reducing the chance for an accord limiting
climate change this week.
"The threat of worsening economic conditions is ...
5/12/2011
UN
climate talks on Monday enter their second week entangled in a thick mesh of issues with no guarantee that negotiators and their ministers will be able to sort them out.
The 194-nation process is facing, for the second time in two ...
5/12/2011
UN
climate talks on Monday enter their second week entangled in a thick mesh of issues with no guarantee that negotiators and their ministers will be able to sort them out.
The 194-nation process is facing, for the second time in two ...
4/12/2011
A chemical factory discharges exhaust into the air of Mumbai, India. Developing nations led by China, India and Brazil say another round of commitments under Kyoto are essential to keep the
climate talks on track.
A chemical factory ...
30/11/2011
Barclays, the Royal Bank of Scotland and HSBC are among the top banks that have lent billions of euros to the coal sector – despite their much-vaunted environmental credentials, a new investigation has found.
Financing coal is ...
5/11/2011
This week's G-20 summit was dominated by Europe's debt crisis, but developing countries want the grouping of major economies to refocus on a bigger global agenda that includes creating jobs, improving farming and fighting
climate ...
16/9/2011
Just in time for winter, new analysis shows that even though headlines in the last two winters might make you think we had intensely cold seasons, the truth is just the opposite.
Only on msnbc.com AP Palestinians face US counteroffensive ...
10/8/2011
President Obama announced the first fuel-efficiency and greenhouse gas standards for long-haul rigs, work trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles Tuesday, the second mileage pact with manufacturers in less than a month.
The regulations call ...