Seattle's mayor concedes in primary battle

Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels conceded defeat Friday in his bid for a third term, failing to advance past the primary after getting battered for his bungling of December snowstorms that paralyzed the city.

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Turkey approves Kyoto Protocol

Turkey's parliament has approved the Kyoto Protocol on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

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UN says greenhouse gas emissions rose in 2000-06

Greenhouse gas emissions by 40 industrialized nations that signed the Kyoto Protocol climate treaty have dropped an average of 5 percent below 1990 levels, U.N. officials reported Monday.

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Aussies: Kyoto Should Have Been Ratified

Australia should have ratified the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions years ago instead of becoming isolated on the issue along with the United States, two former Cabinet officials said.

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Japan, Denmark Set New Climate Goals

The United States, China and India must be part of the follow-up treaty to the Kyoto Protocol and agree to cut carbon emissions, Denmark's prime minister said Saturday. Japan's leader offered them a bold strategy for doing it.

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A Look at the Bali Climate Change Plan

Key points of the final decision at the U.N. climate change conference setting an agenda for talks on a new global warming pact to succeed the Kyoto Protocol at the end of 2012:

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Bush Ally Defeated in Australia Election

Conservative Prime Minister John Howard, one of the Bush administration's staunchest allies, suffered a humiliating election defeat Saturday at the hands of an opposition leader who has vowed to pull troops out of Iraq.

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U.N.: Global Warming Gases on Rise Again

The industrialized world's emissions of greenhouse gases are growing again, despite efforts under the Kyoto Protocol to cap them and stave off global warming, the United Nations reported Monday.

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The declared war against global warming by governments, organizations and environmentalists had no credibility when both the United States, under George W. Bush, and China, the two biggest carbon emitters, were not playing along.

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It's a new recording of a rewritten version of Midnight Oil's protest song "Beds Are Burning," from 1987.

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Obama will speak at a special summit meeting on climate control on September 22, address the General Assembly on September 23, and chair a special Security Council meeting on arms control and nonproliferation on September 24.

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China stands for international cooperation in addressing climate change and will continue to actively participate in the global process for tackling the challenge, a Chinese leader said here Thursday

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According to Climate Progress, the report, Climate Policy and Industrial Competitiveness (pdf), completed by the economists, climate scientists, and academics of the German Marshall Fund, reveals that Europe's cap and trade has lead many countries in the EU to meet their carbon t …

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In the fields around this giant chemicals factory in Gujarat, the barren soil smells of paint stripper and the water from the well makes you gag.

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The future impacts of global warming may be twice as worse as we thought just a few years ago.

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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton on Tuesday urged urban leaders and policymakers they need to take the lead now in fighting climate change.

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A high-powered group of senior Republicans and Democrats led two missions to China in the final months of the Bush administration for secret backchannel negotiations aimed at securing a deal on joint US-Chinese action on climate change, the Guardian has learned.

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If the phenomenon of global warming is allowed to continue at the current rate, the human race is likely to be wiped out in about two centuries by disaster if not earlier by a nuclear war, Professor Syed Amir Ahmed Kazmi, former Director General, Pakistan Meteorological Services  …

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In a year like this, we need a city upon a hill.

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Like medieval priests, today's carbon brokers will sell you an indulgence that forgives your carbon sins. It will run you about $500 for 5 tons of forgiveness—about how much the typical American needs every year. Or about $2,000 a year for a typical four-person household.

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On Saturday, residents of five communities in cane toad-plagued northern Queensland state will grab their flashlights and fan out into the night to hunt down the hated animals as part of the inaugural "Toad Day Out" celebration.

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The world should dump the "inefficient and ineffective" Kyoto protocol and replace it with a global carbon tax, leading economist William Nordhaus said yesterday.

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It could be the ultimate test of human endurance: Three British explorers are risking their lives in subzero temperatures to measure the melting Arctic ice cap. More Articles

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The Turkish parliament Thursday overwhelmingly approved the Kyoto Protocol on fighting global warming. Out of the 252 deputies present in the 550-seat legislature, 243 voted for the bill, three voted against and six abstained.

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In a rousing speech to hundreds of delegates at the UN Climate Change Conference in Poznan, the former US Presidential candidate echoed President-elect Barack Obama in calling for change.

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POZNAN, Poland (AFP) — George W. Bush's last hurrah in the global climate arena has met with a welling of disdain contrasting with the outsized expectations for his successor, Barack Obama.

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Former prime minister John Howard says he believes doubts will increase among the public as to whether all claims made about the effect of climate change are accurate.

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U.S. emissions of gases blamed for warming the planet rose 1.4 percent last year as acute weather pushed consumers to crank up heaters and air conditioners and cut output from hydropower generation, the federal Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday.

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Global Warming has become too big an issue to address only through personal actions and at-home conservation measures. There must be an international agreement to address climate change through reducing all emissions and saving forests. World leaders must act now in Poznan.

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For island communities and species, global warming is not a distant threat – it's something that is happening now. Islands hold 10 percent of the population and more endangered, threatened and rare species than anywhere else in the world. Can these communities survive?

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Russia, holder of the world's biggest surplus of carbon-dioxide credits under the Kyoto Protocol global-warming treaty, won't sell them to other nations, an official said at the United Nations climate talks.

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Germany reduced carbon-dioxide emissions to below levels required under the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement aimed at stemming climate change.

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Last Sunday, news came that Canada—sensible, quiet, some would even say boring Canada—will hold an election on Oct. 14, its third in four years.

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