If farmers think they have a tough time producing enough rice, wheat and other grain crops, global warming is going to present a whole new world of challenges in the race to produce more food, scientists say.
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You know when climate change is biting hard when instead of a vast expanse of snow the North Pole is a vast expanse of water. This year, for the first time, Arctic scientists are preparing for that possibility.
In honor of Earth Day on April 22, The Nature Conservancy launched the Plant a Billion Trees campaign in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. One dollar plants one tree in this on-the-ground reforestation effort that will help to remove 10 million tons of CO2!
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Westinghouse Electric, a unit of the Japanese Toshiba Corp., said Tuesday it had struck a deal with Georgia Power to build two nuclear power plants in the southern United States, the first such projects in 30 years....
Warming trends in a third of the world's large ocean regions are two to four times greater than previously reported averages, increasing the risk to marine life and fisheries, a U.N.-backed environmental study said.
World-wide panic is expected in pubs throughout the world as a decline in the production of malting barley in Australia and New Zealand hits breweries. "It will mean there will be pubs without beer," climate-watching brainiac Jim Salinger told the..
Amid new calls for the resignation of George W. Bush's top environment official, 12 states and 11 non-profit groups went to court this week accusing the Bush administration of refusing to comply with an environmental order handed down a year ago.
The Interior Department's Minerals Management Service on Tuesday announced it is launching an environmental review of possible offshore oil and gas drilling in the salmon-rich area of Bristol Bay, where energy exploration was temporarily banned following
Rainforest peoples from 11 nations have formed a coalition to demand a greater say in future climate negotiations. Meeting in Manaus, Brazil, in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, representatives of forest communities from Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica...
Millions of people could face poverty, disease and hunger as a result of rising temperatures and changing rainfall expected to hit poor countries the hardest, the World Health Organization warned Monday.
If any country can claim to be pitched on the global warming front line,it may be the North Atlantic island nation of Iceland.On a purely physical level,this land of icecaps and volcanoes and home to 300,000 people is undergoing a rapid transformation as>
The World Bank says it will help finance a $US4.2billion coal-fired power plant in India, despite environmentalists' calls for the decision to be delayed until more analysis on costs and impacts is carried out.
