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Copehagen: Hours before the world leaders will arrive for the Copenhagen summit’s final day, negotiators from about 30 countries in Denmark have worked on an outline draft accord regarding the climate change. The draft is expected to call for preventing global temperatures from going up more than 2.0 degrees Celsius compared ...

New Delhi: With only three days to go before arriving at an outcome on climate change, global talks on climate change still lack clarity and could even break down over “serious” outstanding issues, says India’s environment minister Jairam Ramesh. “There is confusion and lack of clarity at this stage,” Ramesh said. ...

Washington: An in Zogby interactive survey, the results showed that nearly half of Americans, or 49%, say they are only slightly or not at all concerned about climate change, while 35% are somewhat or highly concerned. The survey’s results emerge as the United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen heads into ...

1997: Negotiators from every country in the world agree on a deal to cut the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. After years of global negotiations and more than a week of round-the-clock meetings in Kyoto, Japan, representatives agreed to a sketch of a climate treaty that came to be known as the ...

Copenhagen: Claiming that the Danish draft proposal for an agreement on climate change threatens the success of the Copenhagen summit, G-77 group of countries and China slammed the draft. Sudan’s Lumumba Stanislas Dia Ping, who heads the G-77 group said in context to the leak that it is “serious and unfortunate ...

New Delhi: Changes in the concentration of the greenhouse gases (water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and chlorofluorocarbons) is usually termed as climate change. It traps infrared radiation from the Earth’s surface, heating it, much like a normal greenhouse.This is called the greenhouse effect. To maintain a stable temperature and climate ...

A regional ministerial conference on climate change was opened Wednesday in Belgrade. The goal of the conference is to establish stronger ties between the environment policies and the energy industry sector.

Today is Blog Action Day, a movement that brings together bloggers, no matter what subject they cover, to create awareness of a cause by all writing about it on the same day. This year’s focus is climate change. This article interrupts a series of blog posts I’ve been publishing on ...

Himalayan species under threat from climate change

This week's guest is writer and eco-warrior Jonathon Porritt. As the founding director of the sustainable development NGO, Forum for the Future, and, until this month, chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission, when Porritt speaks about global warming people listen. The former director of Friends of the Earth and ...

Lobbying interests that President Obama campaigned against last year have gained the upper hand on the White House in recent weeks. In stark contrast to Obama's first few months in office, special interest groups this summer have aggressively...

New estimate based on the forthcoming upturn in solar activity and El Niño southern oscillation cycles is expected to silence global warming scepticsThe world faces record-breaking temperatures as the sun's activity increases, leading the planet to heat up significantly faster than scientists had predicted ...

So what do you do when someone posts a YouTube video saying you're a crock? One way is to complain and get it wiped clean off the 'inter-tubes.'

With surging demand for power and blackouts common across the continent, Africa is looking to solar, wind and geothermal technologies to meet its energy needsOne of the hottest places in the world is set to become the site of Africa's most ambitious venture in ...

Photos from US spy satellites declassified by the Obama administration provide the first graphic images of how the polar ice sheets are retreating in the summer

Some suspect foul play in the last-minute cancellation of the Big Green Gathering, but the Vestas protest might get an unexpected boost insteadNews broke over the weekend that the organisers of the Big Green Gathering had finally crumbled under ceaseless pressure and ...

Photos from US spy satellites declassified by the Obama administration provide the first graphic images of how the polar ice sheets are retreating in the summer

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Photos from US spy satellites declassified by the Obama White House provide the first graphic images of how the polar ice sheets are retreating in the summer. The effects on the world's weather, environments and wildlife could be devastatingGraphic images that reveal the devastating ...

The Watts Up With That readers spend too much time -- and too little science -- trying to prove that climate change is nothing to worry about. In this video Peter Sinclair thoroughly debunks Watts and his pseudo science.