Global Warming News

As an evangelical Christian living in Texas, climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe found that many conservatives had questions about climate change based on things they'd heard on talk radio.

Developing nations should set an example for the world ahead of an international conference on climate change by pledging to become carbon neutral, the president of the Maldives said Monday.

Alaska will probably see most of its surface permafrost vanish by the end of this century, but researchers believe vast areas of frozen soil will remain deeper underground even as air temperatures increase.

IT MAY sound like a sci-fi vision, but Japan's space agency is deadly serious: by 2030 it wants to collect solar power in space and zap it down to Earth, using laser beams or microwaves.

President Barack Obama will leave the country for a four-nation tour of Asia starting Wednesday despite a host of domestic concerns, including the massacre at Fort Hood, a sharply rising jobless rate, his health care legislation stalled in the Senate and his Afghanistan troop decision still pending.

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland - ST. ANDREWS, Scotland a ' Britain called for consideration of a global tax on financial transactions to insure against another crisis and urged world finance officials meeting Saturday in Scotland to agree on bearing the cost of fighting climate change.

The Patrick administration is rethinking its support of wood-burning power plants, a key element of its long-term strategy to wean Massachusetts off fossil fuels.

Intelligent people agree that, absent immediate radical action regarding global warming, the human race is sunk.

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Big polluters are pulling no punches in shifting the cost of tackling carbon in the atmosphere onto others, write Marian Wilkinson, Ben Cubby and Flint Duxfield.

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.

Negotiators from industrial nations, including the United States , said eleventh-hour promises are possible and a global warming pact can be reached.

An Indonesia-based study is showing carbon-rich tropical peat lands trap more greenhouse gases than first thought, driving up their potential value on the carbon market and strengthening the case for their protection.

The world's top finance officials sought agreement Friday on ways to secure future global economic growth as the world hesitantly emerges from recession.

The American icebreaker RV/IB Nathanial B. Palmer is shown off the South Shetland Islands.

With just a month to go before the UN summit on climate change in Copenhagen, India on Friday made it clear to the EU that it was not ready to quantify its carbon emission targets, but would explore that possibility.

U.N. negotiators assure it is still possible next month to conclude a strong, 192-nation global deal that will define future work in fighting global warming.

Countries most vulnerable to climate change said Friday they were incensed that rich nations were rethinking the timetable for concluding a global treaty that would hold them to legally binding targets for cutting emissions.

WASHINGTON - As global warming takes center stage in world affairs, Al Gore can't be far behind: The Nobel-Prize-winning former-vice president-turned-energy entrepreneur is releasing his plan to crack the climate conundrum.

Negotiators at a U.N. climate conference in Spain further defined plans for reducing greenhouse emissions and continued work on a draft climate change treaty, with next month's deadline for a legal document increasingly in doubt.