Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
UN Secretary General Urges Climate Agreement ‘Short of Perfect Deal’
Dec 8 2010 // Saying the health of the planet is at stake, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged 190 nations meeting in Mexico on Tuesday to agree to steps to fight climate change that fall short of a perfect deal. “We cannot...
US Sees Progress in Easing Climate Change Row with China
Nov 30 2010 // Washington claimed progress Monday in easing rifts with Beijing on ways to fight global warming as U.N. climate talks got under way in Mexico with warnings about the rising costs of inaction. The United States and China,...
UN Agency Concludes Greenhouse Gases at Record Levels
Nov 24 2010 // Concentrations of the main greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached their highest level since pre-industrial times, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday. Concentrations of the gases...
Melting Siberian Permafrost Raises Tricky Climate Issue
Nov 23 2010 // The Russian scientist shuffles across the frozen lake, scuffing aside ankle-deep snow until he finds a cluster of bubbles trapped under the ice. With a cigarette lighter in one hand and a knife in the other, he lances the...
Decades of Data Show Troposphere Is Warming Too
Nov 16 2010 // Not only is Earth’s surface warming, but the troposphere — the lowest level of the atmosphere, where weather occurs — is heating up too, U.S. and British meteorologists reported Monday. In a review of...
Report Concludes Invasive Species, Climate Change, Form ‘Deadly Duo’
Oct 22 2010 // Climate change is set to drive the spread of invasive plant and animal species, threatening forests, fisheries and crops, in a double blow to nature and livelihoods, a World Bank-funded report said on Friday. The study by...
U.N. Urged to Freeze Climate Change ‘Geo-engineering’ Projects
Oct 21 2010 // The United Nations should impose a moratorium on “geo-engineering” projects such as artificial volcanoes and vast cloud-seeding schemes to fight climate change, green groups say, fearing they could harm nature...
China Blames Climate Talks Standoff on Rich Nations
Oct 8 2010 // China said on Friday that rich nations must lock in fresh vows to slash greenhouse gas output to unblock talks for a new climate change deal, while some negotiators said Beijing was holding progress hostage. The feuding...
S&P Analysis Finds Insurance Could Spur Climate Change Investments
Oct 6 2010 // Climate change commentators have often spoken of capital markets as a source of funding, but many hurdles have to be overcome before institutional investors will allocate money to environmental projects in developing...
U.S. Says Climate Talks Fail to Make Headway
Oct 6 2010 // The United States said on Wednesday U.N. climate talks were making less progress than hoped because of a rift over poorer nations’ emission goals, and that other avenues might be needed to tackle climate...
China Says Climate Talks Must Tackle Rich Nations CO2 Cuts
Oct 5 2010 // Greenhouse gas cuts vowed by rich nations remain far from enough to escape dangerous global warming, a top Chinese climate official said on Tuesday, urging talks over a new climate change pact to confront the...
UK’s Royal Society Issues ‘Short Guide’ to Science of Climate Change
Sep 30 2010 // The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science, has launched a new short guide to the science of climate change. The Society explained that the “guide has been written to summarize the evidence and to...
Munich Re Highlights Climate Change Link to Extreme Weather Events
Sep 28 2010 // A bulletin from Munich Re underlines the “exceptionally high” incidence of “weather-related natural catastrophe losses in the first nine months of 2010,” both in “number and scale.” The...
Climate Change May Add to Natural Disaster Death Tolls
Sep 8 2010 // Natural disasters are tending to kill fewer people but climate change may add to the toll by unleashing more extreme weather and causing after-effects such as disease and malnutrition, experts say. Better warnings of...
Nations Meet on Climate Cash Contributions; UN Sees Long Haul
Sep 3 2010 // About 45 nations met on Thursday to seek ways to raise billions of dollars in aid to help the poor combat climate change as the United Nations warned them of a long haul to slow global warming. Environment ministers and...
Extreme Weather Seen Unlikely to Help Climate Talks
Aug 17 2010 // Extreme weather in 2010 will spur more strident calls for action to combat global warming but is unlikely to break a deadlock at U.N. climate talks about sharing the burden between rich and poor. Islamabad, for instance,...
Pakistan Floods, Russia Heat Fit Climate Trend, Scientists Say
Aug 10 2010 // Devastating floods in Pakistan and Russia’s heatwave match predictions of extremes caused by global warming even though it is impossible to blame mankind for single severe weather events, scientists say. This year is...
Ten Key Indicators Show ‘Global Warming is Undeniable’
Jul 29 2010 // Melting glaciers, more humid air and eight other key indicators, show that global warming is undeniable, scientists said Wednesday, citing a new comprehensive review of the last decade of climate data. Without addressing...
Is Global Warming Causing More Frequent, More Powerful Hurricanes?
Jul 21 2010 // A workshop held in Lloyd’s Old Library sought to answer that question, by examining the impact global warming could have on the hurricane season. Lloyd’s cited the fact that “analysis of weather patterns...
Climate Scientists Praise Report on Hacked E-mail Scandal
Jul 8 2010 // Leading climate scientists on Thursday welcomed a British report that cleared researchers of exaggerating the effects of global warming and said they hoped it would restore faith in the fight against climate change [See IJ...
