THE world has agreed to a historic, Australian-brokered agreement to tackle climate change after the US made dramatic concessions at the UN summit in Bali late yesterday.
Today the Center for Biological Diversity officially requested that Maine and Delaware declare ocean waters under their jurisdiction impaired under the Clean Water Act due to ocean acidification.The conservation group has now petitioned ten coastal states
THE global politics of climate change shifted dramatically at the Bali summit, leaving the United States standing alone, an Australian environmental think tank said. The Climate Institute, which has given a cautious welcome to the resolutions from the Uni
In what some scientists see as another alarming consequence of global warming, thousands of Pacific walruses above the Arctic Circle were killed in stampedes earlier this year after the disappearance of sea ice caused them to crowd onto the shoreline in
AL Gore yesterday delivered a rousing call for the world to fight against climate change without the United States, which he accused of blocking tactics at the key UN conference in Bali.
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UN Climate talks in Bali are down to the wire to set new global emissions targets--but the Bush administration is trying to prevent any concrete agreement on cutting carbon. Tell the world that President Bush doesn't speak for us! Sign the petition.
Ireland announced a law last week to ban energy-wasting lightbulbs by Jan. 2009. The Irish Government's ban is the most progressive in Europe by far. "We hope Ireland's decision will light the way for the EU and the rest of the world," says Greenpeace..
Australian clean energy businesses are leaving the embarrassment of the past behind as they prepare to inject an additional $A20 billion into new projects over the next decade, following the Rudd government's ratification of the Kyoto Protocol.
"This bill hits all the right notes -- it would drive the reductions we need now and fuel American innovation. Finally, there's a path to real action on global warming on the floor of the Senate"
This Petition urges your Representatives to prevent another dime of our tax money from funding incinerators to trash our climate and communities, and calls on them to support zero waste instead.
Earth's tropical belt seems to have expanded a couple hundred miles over the past quarter century,which could mean more arid weather for some already dry subtropical regions,new climate research shows.Independent teams using four different meteorological
Cathy Henkel, is filming her new feature documentary, The Burning Season. And Entrepreneur Dorjee Sun has devised a carbon trading scheme that could save Indonesia's tropical rainforests and bring the orangutan back from the brink of extinction.
Send a message to a leading member of the US government delegation to the Bali Climate Change Conference urging him to agree to a treaty that will cut global warming pollution by 90% in developed countries and by more than half worldwide in time for the n
Whereas coal-burning power plants are the largest source of global warming pollution in the world;And whereas an estimated 150 new conventional coal-burning plants are currently being planned in the U.S.,each with an operating life expectancy of 50 years
