Climate conference approves landmark deal
U.N. climate conference reached a hard-fought agreement Sunday on a far-reaching program meant to set a new course for the global fight against climate change.
Climate Deal Up For Approval At UN Conference
Diplomats debated into the early hours of Sunday at a U.N. conference over a complex and far-reaching program meant to set a new course for the global fight against climate change for the coming decades…
Conference In Overtime On Future Of Climate Talks
Some ministers and top climate negotiators left Durban without an agreement Saturday, with time running out and the prospect of an inconclusive end jeopardizing new momentum in the fight against global warming…
2010 Spike in Greenland Ice Loss Lifted Bedrock
An unusually hot melting season in 2010 accelerated ice loss in southern Greenland by 100 billion tons, and large portions of the island’s bedrock rose an additional quarter of an inch in response.
US Plans Its First Megadam In 40 Years
Later this month, Alaskan authorities will file plans in Washington DC for a 213-metre megadam on one of the country’s last remaining wild rivers: the Susitna.
EPA Implicates Fracking In Pollution
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday for the first time that fracking, a controversial method of improving the productivity of oil and gas wells, may be to blame for causing groundwater pollution.
Waiting on climate is escapism: top UN scientist
Leaders who wait for further evidence about the perils of greenhouse gases are flirting with escapism, the head of the UN’s Nobel-winning climate scientists says.
Incompetent Decontamination Effort Risking Health of Fukushima Residents
Fukushima’s residents are being left to their fate and not enough is being done to protect them against radiation nine months after Japan’s tsunami, environment group Greenpeace said Wednesday.
World must learn to manage the planet
The Rio+20 summit next year should focus on reshaping the world economy to better “manage the planet, a UN’s top environment official said at climate talks in Durban.