Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
France, Germany Urge More Flexible Climate Pact
May 26 2009 // France and Germany suggested on Monday that rich nations should collectively guarantee deep cuts in greenhouse gases by 2020 while giving flexibility to laggards such as the United States to catch up later. France said the...
Ocean Conference Seeks Ways to Stem Climate Change
May 13 2009 // Participants in a major conference in Indonesia this week have a rare opportunity to seek political commitment to utilizing the world’s oceans in the fight against climate change, a top official from the host country...
Possible Outcomes of Copenhagen Climate Change Talks
May 5 2009 // The most anticipated climate meeting in years will be held in the Danish capital in December. Out of those talks a broader climate pact to replace the Kyoto Protocol is expected to emerge. But the negotiations leading up...
Being Prepared
May 4 2009 // Don’t Lose Sight of the Greater Risks We Face No one could fail to have noticed that we are in the grip of a recession. With unemployment affecting 2 million in the United Kingdom, interest rates almost at zero and a...
Being Prepared
May 4 2009 // Don’t Lose Sight of the Greater Risks We Face No one could fail to have noticed that we are in the grip of a recession. With unemployment affecting 2 million in the United Kingdom, interest rates almost at zero and a...
Being Prepared
May 4 2009 // Don’t Lose Sight of the Greater Risks We Face No one could fail to have noticed that we are in the grip of a recession. With unemployment affecting 2 million in the United Kingdom, interest rates almost at zero and a...
Being Prepared
May 4 2009 // Don’t Lose Sight of the Greater Risks We Face No one could fail to have noticed that we are in the grip of a recession. With unemployment affecting 2 million in the United Kingdom, interest rates almost at zero and a...
Lloyd’s Report Links Climate Change to National Security Threats
Apr 29 2009 // While the economic crisis and the growing swine flu menace have become the biggest immediate concerns for countries around the world, climate change remains the greatest long term threat. Its impact will continue to be...
How Climate Change Affects GDP
Apr 27 2009 // Southeast Asia faces one of the world’s highest climate change bills, the Asian Development Bank said on Monday, unless the region adapts to climate change and joins the rest of the world in cutting greenhouse gas...
Report Says Forests Could Become Source of Global Warming
Apr 17 2009 // The world’s forests are at risk of becoming a source of planet-warming emissions instead of soaking them up like a sponge unless greenhouse gases are controlled, scientists said. Deforestation emits 20 percent of the...
Global Warming to Blame for 37% of Droughts Says Australian Scientist
Mar 26 2009 // Global warming is more than a third to blame for a major drop in rainfall that includes a decade-long drought in Australia and a lengthy dry spell in the United States, a scientist said on Wednesday. Peter Baines of...
El Nino Study Challenges Global Warming Intensity Link
Mar 24 2009 // Research showing an El Nino event in 1918 was far stronger than previously thought is challenging the notion that climate change is making El Nino episodes more intense, a U.S. scientist said on Tuesday. El Nino causes...
Minnesota Foundation Donates $1 Billion to Fight Climate Change
Mar 20 2009 // Minnesota’s largest private foundation is contributing $100 million toward a $1 billion initiative by several large foundations to fight climate change. McKnight Foundation President Kate Wolford says the coordinated...
Farm-based Biogas, a Neglected Asset in Greenhouse Gas Fight
Mar 19 2009 // John Ibbett and pigs go back a long way. “The pig manager pushed me round in a pram,” recalls Ibbett, whose family has been farming on the same site since 1939. Now he’s proud his family farm can turn...
U.S., China Most at Risk from Natural Disasters Linked to Climate Change
Mar 12 2009 // A new study, released by the UK-based Maplecroft, has determined that “the increase in both frequency and severity of climate related disasters is increasingly impacting upon developed and emerging...
London Summit Set to Include Climate Change Talks
Mar 12 2009 // A summit meeting on the financial crisis in London next month will tackle the issue of climate change, which the U.N. chief had planned to make the focus of a separate gathering in New York, diplomats said. Worried that...
Copenhagen Climate Change Conference Commences
Mar 10 2009 // One of the largest ever interdisciplinary conferences on climate change will kick-off today in Copenhagen, Denmark. A bulletin from the University of Copenhagen notes that “more than 2,000 participants from around 80...
Catlin Sponsored Arctic Survey Team Begins Ice Study
Mar 2 2009 // The Bermuda-based Catlin Group Limited announced that a team of three British explorers has commenced a vital scientific expedition to the North Geographic Pole. They hope to help establish how long the sea ice floating in...
Russia: Global Warming to Cause Droughts, Floods
Feb 19 2009 // Russia will likely see more forest fires, droughts and floods in the coming century due to global warming, and policy makers need to prepare for large-scale change, scientists warned in a report released Wednesday. It also...
Australia Bushfies ‘a Climate Change Wake-up Call’ Say Experts
Feb 10 2009 // Weekend bushfires in Australia that killed 173 people are a climate change wake-up call for the public and politicians and a window to the future, experts said on Tuesday. With the death toll still growing from the...
