Climate change poses a huge barrier to a fulfilling future, argues Lord Puttnam, an ambassador for Unicef UK. In this week's Green Room, he asks what price children will have to pay for three or four carbon-happy generations?
President Barack Obama is to pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the US in several stages, beginning with a 17% cut by 2020, the White House has said.
Putting his prestige on the line, President Barack Obama will personally commit the U.S. to a goal of substantially cutting greenhouse gases at next month's Copenhagen climate summit.
The World's top climate scientists including Professors James Hansen (US), Hans Joachim Schellnhuber (Germany) , Paul Crutzen (Netherlands Nobel Laureate), top journal Nature: air CO2 must NOT exceed 350 ppm.
July hottest month for world's oceans in 130 years of record keeping. Average water temperature worldwide was 17 degrees Celsius, according to US National Climatic Data Centre, 2C above 15C 1909 minimum.
Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii (USA) Atmospheric CO2 reached 390.18 ppm in May 2009, according to scientific data just released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the United States.
The Waxman-Markey climate bill is the best we will get from America until the corruption of public life is addressed
Would You Pay $175 to Save the Climate? A definitive new cost estimate debunks a common criticism of a cap-and-trade carbon regulation as a $3,000-plus "energy tax."
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House Democrats neared a deal Thursday on a bill to combat global warming, but a top party strategist warned that to sell any plan to voters they'll need to change the way they pitch it -- including curbing the use of the term "green" jobs and even talk of "global warming."
Bill Maher says Democrats are the new Republicans.
Colby Curtin, a 10-year-old girl suffering from terminal vascular cancer, told her mom that she wanted to live to see Pixar's Up. But before she could visit the theater, her condition became too unstable for her to be moved.
Be sure to read this "special edition" of the International Herald Tribune.
"The truth is the climate nightmare is real and happening now. We are destroying the Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu and the snow caps. We are eroding our beaches, and our coastal cities will face managed retreat"
"This is not what I voted for," Bill Maher said on his HBO show Friday night, arguing that Obama has maintained his personal popularity but failed to make real progress on health care, banks, or climate change.
These indigenous groups are on the frontline of the struggle to protect our earth...
Venezuela's Health Ministry said Friday it banned sales of Coca-Cola Zero because the company failed to declare that the no-calorie soft drink uses an artificial sweetener allegedly harmful to health.
The Real Price Of Gadget Addictions: Mining In Congo
Russia will rebuild its Soviet-era network of polar stations and use its icebreaker fleet to help support its claim to the vast resources of the Arctic, the man who led a mission to plant a Russian flag on the Arctic seabed said Wednesday.
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Obama will abandon complex policies on emissions, clean coal and refocus on achievable goals like applying deodorant daily, learning what to say when you burp.
We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate.
China said Tuesday that it was committed to making this year's Copenhagen climate change conference a success, sounding a positive note at the close of a two-day visit to Beijing by President Barack Obama's global warming envoy.
Royal Dutch Shell agreed to a $15.5 million settlement Monday to end a lawsuit alleging that the oil giant was complicit in the executions of activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and other civilians by Nigeria's former military regime.
It may look like the gateway into Star Trek: The Next Generation's holodeck, but this is a bus stop... or, rather, "an iPhone-like interactive bus stop," according to its creators at MIT's SENSEable City Lab.
The well-known Oscar and Emmy-winning director Michael Moore says goodbye to GM today as the failed auto company files for bankruptcy.
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