Topic: Climatology
FAIRVIEW VILLAGE, Guyana (Reuters) - After decades of depending on bauxite, timber and gold for revenue, Guyana proposed five years ago that wealthy foreigners pay it to protect its tropical South American rainforests.The idea was hailed as an innovative way to spur ...
UN climate talks on Saturday faced the scythe of Father Time as environment ministers haggled over proposals for a new pact to roll back the threat from greenhouse gases.The 194-nation parley under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) hurtled into ...
The world's newest nation, South Sudan, appealed Thursday for help in healing a land ravaged by war and disruptive weather as it made its maiden appearance at the UN climate talks."Climate change in Southern Sudan has very, very serious negative effects. In ...
Six Greenpeace campaigners were arrested on the sidelines of the UN climate conference on Monday as they protested against corporate responsibility for carbon emissions.The six were detained as they tried to hang a banner reading "Listen to the People, not the Polluters" ...
Rising sea levels and droughts associated with climate change threaten to force vast shifts of populations, yet states have so far been slow to react, the Global Migration Group (GMG) warned Thursday.The body, made up of 14 United Nations agencies, the World ...
A European drive to forge a legally-binding deal on climate change by 2015 that would include all major carbon polluters is "too much", a senior Chinese negotiator said at UN talks here."I exchanged views with my European colleagues before I came here ...
In the race against world governments and the wealthiest companies to commercialize a nuclear fusion reactor, a small, innovative Canadian firm is hoping to bottle and sell the sun's energy.In a laboratory in this Pacific Coast city, General Fusion physicists and engineers ...
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada dismissed the Kyoto Protocol on climate change on Monday as a thing of the past, but declined to confirm a media report it will formally pull out of the international treaty before the end of this year.Although the ...
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada dismissed the Kyoto Protocol on climate change on Monday as a thing of the past, but declined to confirm a media report it will formally pull out of the international treaty before the end of this year.Although the ...
On the US political stage, skepticism and denial of climate change are as popular as ever, and experts say that world talks which opened Monday in Durban, South Africa are unlikely to turn the tide.But while a binding deal on harmful carbon ...
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Two Camps of Climatologists (1/5)
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Pioneering climatologist James Lovelock interview
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