WASHINGTON (AP) -- -- The strain of deadly E. coli behind a recent outbreak has been linked to a cattle ranch next to Salinas Valley spinach fields, California and federal investigators said Thursday.

Global warming will push up insurance premiums in high-risk areas like coastal Florida and other hurricane-prone parts of the United States, an insurance company official said Tuesday.

THE world's top polluting nations have been told to prepare for decades of weather turmoil, even if they act now to curb emissions and pursue green energy sources. Environment and energy ministers meeting in the Mexican city of Monterrey vowed to work

The world would have to give up only one year's economic growth over the next four decades to reduce carbon emissions sufficiently to stave off the threat of global warming.

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Boreal forests provide 250 billion dollars a year in ecosystem services like reducing atmospheric carbon and water filtration, but which have gone unacknowledged by governments and industry, experts say.

The Buffalo Zoo will break ground this fall on a $16 million South American rain forest attraction with a two-story waterfall and exotic exhibits of crocodiles, vampire bats and anacondas. The Erie County Legislature gave the go-ahead Thursday

MYTH : Global warming is too uncertain to act on. FACT : There is no debate about the facts of global warming.