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10/3/2010
French President Nicolas Sarkozy will open a daylong conference Thursday of some 40 nations to start turning plans into action to save the world's forests and help rein in the noxious gases blamed for climate change.
Ministers from ...
10/3/2010
The United States could source 10 percent of its electricity from solar power by 2030, a report said Tuesday, winning support from a US lawmaker who wants to boost the number of US solar panels.
The report, produced by the independent ...
10/3/2010
At a tumultuous time in U.N.-led climate negotiations, one of the world's most credible scientific groups agreed Wednesday to plug the recent cracks in the authoritative reports of the United Nations' Nobel Prize-winning global warming ...
10/3/2010
Mature male orangutans produce what scientist's call 'long calls', which can be heard for one kilometer in all directions even in dense forests. New research in Ethology has uncovered that these calls are employed for a number of reasons and ...
10/3/2010
The future of the bluefin tuna could be decided within days, along with two other endangered fish, the spiny dogfish and porbeagle, according to a national conservation charity.
The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) said the northern ...
10/3/2010
The negative fallout from climate change is having a devastatingly lopsided impact on women compared to men, from higher death rates during natural disasters to heavier household and care burdens.
In the 1991 cyclone disasters that ...
10/3/2010
Major environmental groups are coming under criticism from within their own ranks for taking positions that some say are antithetical to their stated missions of saving the planet. In the latest issue of The Nation magazine, the British ...
10/3/2010
Science fiction blockbuster Avatar was the big loser in the Oscar awards ceremony - not only a blow for director James Cameron but also seen as a symbolic reverse in the struggle to recover Amazon rainforest areas in Ecuador from the effects of ...
10/3/2010
It wasn't long ago that Marco Rubio and Tim Pawlenty -- two rising Republican stars -- supported legislation to limit greenhouse gas emissions. But in recent weeks, both have begun to express doubts about whether cars, factories and power plants ...
10/3/2010
The United Nations is to announce an independent review of errors made by its climate change advisory body in an attempt to restore its credibility.A team of the world's leading scientists will investigate the Intergovernmental Panel on ...
10/3/2010
China and India formally agreed Tuesday to join the international climate change agreemen reached last December in Copenhagen, the last two major economies to sign up.
The two countries, among the largest and fastest-growing sources of ...
10/3/2010
RENEWABLE energy won't save the planet so it's time to go nuclear, according to one of world's most high-profile climate scientists.
"We should undertake urgent focused research and development programs in next generation nuclear power," ...
10/3/2010
The deaths of 75 starlings which appeared to fall from the sky and crash land on to a driveway in Somerset has mystified the RSPCA animal charity.
The birds were spotted falling onto the entrance of a house in Coxley in Somerset on ...
10/3/2010
European Union ambassadors agreed to propose protecting bluefin tuna as an endangered species on Wednesday, the EU presidency said, a move that would effectively ban international trade in the species.
A meeting of the Convention on ...
10/3/2010
The EU has decided to support a ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna, reports indicate.
The bloc is reported to have agreed to push for a ban at next week's meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered ...
10/3/2010
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked the world's science academies to review work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Work will be co-ordinated by the Inter-Academy Council, which brings together bodies such as ...
10/3/2010
Britain's science academy said on Wednesday it would take part in a review of U.N. climate science intended to restore trust after a 2007 report was found to have exaggerated evidence for global warming.
"I can confirm that we are one of ...
10/3/2010
UK small wind turbine manufacturers say they will lose out to foreign solar panel manufacturers in the race to cash in on the UK government's new feed-in tariff scheme.
They claim their products will be penalised because solar panel ...
10/3/2010
New biofuels offer a sustainable source of energy but we must consider the ethical and social implications, say Joyce Tait and Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka.
Biofuels were first pioneered in the early days of car manufacturing. Cheap fossil ...
10/3/2010
China's top climate negotiator said on Wednesday that the cause of global warming was still not clear but the problems it was creating were so serious that the world must anyway act to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Xie Zhenhua, ...
10/3/2010
Green members of the European parliament stood en masse and held up placards Tuesday in protest against the EU Commission approval of the cultivation of genetically modified potatoes.
The deputies help up placards that read "For a GMO ...
10/3/2010
China said it will not deviate from its stand on climate change even after it gave qualified approval to the Copenhagen climate accord on Tuesday. It expects India to stick to its stand as well, a senior Chinese official said on ...
10/3/2010
China told the United States on Wednesday to make stronger commitments on climate change and provide environmental expertise and financing to developing nations.
China's top climate change negotiator, Xie Zhenhua, acknowledged the ...
9/3/2010
Although the Peruvian government reported that it had suspended the exploration activities of the Afrodita mining company in the country's northern Amazon jungle region to avoid further protests by local indigenous people, officials took no ...
9/3/2010
Climate change science has come under full-scale attack in a last-ditch effort to delay or prevent action by the U.S. government against global warming, experts warn.
U.S. Senator James Inhofe, Republican from Oklahoma and climate change ...