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Sometimes a novelty becomes a necessity. Take New York’s farmers markets. A visit to one of the city’s outdoor food extravaganzas was once an entertaining field trip on an autumn Saturday, an excuse to sip apple cider and run my fingers across bright orange carrots with their thick green tops (so different from the shiny, leafless tubes wrapped in plastic in the produce aisle) and beets and potatoes still spotty with dirt. Complete Story...
A joint statement by the U.S. and Chinese presidents on climate change is encouraging as pressure builds in the last few weeks before a 192-nation conference in Copenhagen, but the language leaves a lot unsaid, observers in both countries said Wednesday.
The battle against global warming could be helped if the world slowed population growth by making free condoms and family planning advice more widely available, the U.N. Population Fund said Wednesday.
A look at some other pests that are benefiting or could benefit from global warming:
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Thursday for all countries to fix binding climate change targets next year at the latest, acknowledging that no such deal is likely at global talks in Copenhagen next month.
A blood-orange blob the size of a small refrigerator emerged from the dark waters, its venomous tentacles trapped in a fishing net. Within minutes, hundreds more were being hauled up, a pulsating mass crowding out the catch of mackerel and sea bass.
A senior Obama administration official says world leaders agree that next month's much-anticipated international summit on climate change will be a preliminary step that will require subsequent efforts to tackle global warming.
Brazil says it will voluntarily reduce carbon emissions by 36.1 percent to 38.9 percent by 2020.
Climate scientists normally are wary of associating daily weather events to longer term climate change, but new research does just that by showing that daily record high temperatures across the continental U.S. occurred twice as often as record lows over the last decade.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pressed the Senate Tuesday to take action on climate change, but key senators made it clear that a bill is unlikely to pass this year.
A group of 11 countries vulnerable to adverse effects of global warming urged world leaders Tuesday to reach a binding agreement at next month's global conference on the issue.
A list of key points negotiators hope to clarify before meeting for a decisive U.N. climate conference next month in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Denmark's premier sent invitations Thursday asking 191 world leaders to attend next month's U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen, saying their presence was "pivotal" to its success.
With the U.S. Congress still struggling to agree on sharp cuts in greenhouse gases or how to fund them, European officials said Thursday they were now striving for a political agreement instead of a new treaty to allow the U.S. and other rich nations to make commitments that are not legally binding.
Seeking to help fight climate change, the Walt Disney Co. says it will spend $7 million in partnership with three conservation groups to protect tens of thousands of acres of forest lands in the Congo basin, the Amazon basin and in two regions of the United States.
Senate Democrats sidestepped a Republican boycott Thursday, pushing a climate bill out of committee in an early step on a long and contentious road to passage.
European Union leaders want President Barack Obama to clarify the U.S. position on climate change as they meet in Washington this week.
African countries ended a boycott of meetings at U.N. climate negotiations on Tuesday, after winning promises for more in-depth talks on how much rich nations need to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will urge the U.S. Congress to support an international pact to combat climate change in her address to the House and Senate next week.
We can probably engineer Earth's climate to cool the planet, scientists say, but are we willing to live with the downsides? Those could include creating more droughts, more ozone holes and, oh yeah, a thin cloud layer that obscures blue skies and gives astronomers fits.
European Union leaders say the bloc has so far failed to agree on how much aid to offer to poorer nations in global climate deal.
An island in the Indian Ocean, vital to the U.S. military, disappears as the sea level rises. Rivers critical to India and Pakistan shrink, increasing military tensions in South Asia. Drought, famine and disease forces population shifts and political turmoil in the Middle East.
A new study suggests warming temperatures predicted over the next century could boost tree growth on Northwest forests, but less so at lower elevations where most of the timber is and temperatures are already warm.
Nuclear energy, once vilified by environmentalists and facing a dim future, has become a pivotal bargaining chip as Senate Democrats hunt for Republican votes to pass climate legislation.
Activists held events around the world Saturday to mark the number they say the world needs to reach to prevent disastrous climate change: 350.
Hacked E-Mails Fuel Climate Change Skeptics - NYTimes.com"Hundreds of private e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change."
CRU has apparently been hacked "hundreds of files released"An unknown person put postings on some climate skeptic websites that advertised an FTP file on a Russian FTP server, here is the message that was placed on the Air Vent today: We feel that climate science is, in the current situation, too important to be kept under wraps.
McCaskill calls climate bill "big" and "hard"; Limbaugh asks, "[I]s she talking about the climate bill there?"Wow. This joke was so funny he felt the need to repeat. How juvenille and stupid. Why do so many people listen to this ass?
Dr Lovelock: "Climate war could kill nearly all of us, leaving survivors in the Stone Age"Lovelock: "We have enjoyed 12,000 years of climate peace since the last shift from a glacial age to an interglacial one. Before long, we may face planet-wide devastation worse even than unrestricted nuclear war ..."
Experts: GHG pollution 50% greater than thought, livestock give over 51% of GHGs pa World Bank Group environmentalists have re-examined greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution due to methanogenic livestock - total GHG pollution is 50% greater than thought previously and livestock contribute over 51% of total.
Australians Face Reality On Sea-Level Rise - plus 1.1 meters means 2 million Oz refugees Official Australian report based on conservative IPCC projections : with a sea-level rise of 1.1 meters about two million Australians would become refugees and have to leave their homes and the places they love.
World on course for catastrophic 6 degree C rise, reveal scientists The world is now firmly on course for the worst-case scenario in terms of climate change, with average global temperatures rising by up to 6C by the end of the century, leading scientists said yesterday.
EPA Employees Silenced for Criticizing Cap and TradeWhen Zabel and Williams released a video on the Internet expressing their concerns over the Obama administration's plans to use a cap and trade program to fight climate change, they were told to keep it to themselves.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Ghost trees 'haunt' London squareTrees from a damaged rain forest from Africa are now settled in Trafalgar Square in London to provoke thought and awareness about climate change.
Rudd Australian Government bows to pressure & excludes agriculture emissions from ETSAccording to this report from top newspaper The Age (Melbourne): "The Government will permanently exclude agricultural emissions and give farmers access to credits for good farming practices such as tree planting."
Everyone in Britain could be given a personal 'carbon allowance'Lord Smith of Finsbury believes that implementing individual carbon allowances for every person will be the most effective way of meeting the targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Tomorrow's weather: Cloudy, with a chance of fractalsWE'VE all watched those vast heaps of cotton wool float across the sky. Lofted and shaped by updrafts of warm air, cumulus clouds mesmerise with their constantly changing shape. Some grow ever taller, while others wither and die before our eyes.
Computer models 'overstate species risks' if you ignore the microclimate significant at smaller scalesSome large-scale computer simulations may be overestimating the impact of climate change on biodiversity in some regions, researchers have suggested.
Energy-saving ideas - Times OnlineThey have been called "negawatts" — the vast amounts of electricity and heat wasted around the world every day from homes, businesses and appliances as well as ageing power plants.
Climate psychology in cartoons: clues for solving the messaging mysteryClimate psychology in cartoons: clues for solving the messaging mystery
Suggestions offered to reduce emissionsMore telecommuting, more traffic circles and more mass-transit options will help the county reduce emissions of climate-warming gases, according to a new report from the University of San Diego School of Law that recommends solutions large and small for policymakers.
"GM's Money Trees": Displacement of Rural Brazilians Highlights Consequences of "Cap and Trade" SystemWith the Copenhagen climate summit just a month away, a new investigative series looks at how rural Brazilians are being displaced so their forest can be turned into carbon offsets for some of the world's biggest polluters, including General Motors and Chevron.
Deforestation: Not So Bad for the Climate?New research shows that destroying the world's tropical forests doesn't lead to the amount of man-made emissions as previously claimed by a U.N. study.
Greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution: Victoria dirtiest state in one of dirtiest countries, AustraliaHome to three of Australia's four dirtiest power stations and none of the 12 biggest renewable energy plants... less than 2 per cent of electricity clean ... brown coal accounted for 94 per cent of electricity, with gas 4 per cent.
Climate bill faces hurdles in SenateThe climate-change bill that has been moving slowly through the Senate will face a stark political reality when it emerges for committee debate on Tuesday: With Democrats deeply divided on the issue, unless some Republican lawmakers risk the backlash for signing on to the legisla …
Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) back Direct Carbon Pricing + Revenue Recycling Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) finalized a months-long process with their endorsement of direct carbon pricing, with revenue recycling as the preferred method for reducing carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere.
I'm sure I am not alone when I say "I'd like to save the world". While I can't solve all the world's problems, I have an idea to solve Climate Change.
NOAA: Global Surface Temperature Was Second Warmest for SeptemberThe combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the second warmest September on record, according to NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.
Global Warming Heresy! Freaked Out Over SuperFreakonomicsBut when it comes to the religion of global warming—the First Commandment of which is Thou Shalt Not Call It A Religion—Messrs. Levitt and Dubner are grievous sinners.
Talk of "global cooling" based on bogus statistics The AP went beyond this analysis by sending out temperature data to four statisticians, without informing them what the data represented, and asked them to identify any trends in the data. Apparently, none of them saw any sign of global cooling.
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