Stories Tagged "climate change"
UN Official Hopeful About 2015 Climate Talks
posted on April 26, 2013 at 2:13 PM
Climate negotiations over the years have dogged by suspicion, with rich and poor nations accusing one another of failing to do enough to move the talks along.
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Renewable Fuels Supporters Unveil 2013 Goals
posted on February 1, 2013 at 6:12 PM
Obama's Ambitious Second Term Agenda
posted on January 25, 2013 at 6:53 PM
Kerry Vows Leadership On Climate Change
posted on January 25, 2013 at 1:15 PM
Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has made climate change a central focus of his Senate career and led a failed effort in the Senate for a climate change bill in 2010.
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U.N. Climate Talks Go Into Overtime In Qatar
posted on December 7, 2012 at 12:09 PM
With several developing countries, the U.S. and other developed countries reject a draft agreement, highlighting the deep divide that has haunted the talks since they first started two decades ago.
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US Defends 'Enormous' Climate Efforts At UN Talks
posted on November 30, 2012 at 4:46 PM
The pre-emptive U.S. approach underscores one of the major showdowns expected at the two-week conference.
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Portions of Texas emerge from drought
posted on February 3, 2012 at 5:02 PM
HOUSTON (AP) - For millions of Dallas-area residents, one of the most severe droughts in Texas history is no longer a concern - for now.
The U.S. Drought Monitor, in its weekly map posted online Thursday, classified the Dallas-Fort Worth area as...
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New Map for What to Plant Reflects Global Warming
posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:51 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Global warming is hitting not just home, but garden. The color-coded map of planting zones often seen on the back of seed packets is being updated by the government, illustrating a hotter 21st century.
It's the first time...
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Insects Leading Threat to U.S. Forests
posted on July 8, 2011 at 2:07 PM
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich (AP) -- Marauding insects have become a leading threat to the nation's forests over the past decade, a problem made worse by drought and a warming climate, a federal report says.
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Oregon Agriculture Energy Program Cut by Budget
posted on July 1, 2011 at 12:07 PM
PORTLAND, Ore (AP) — The Oregon Department of Agriculture is eliminating its energy and climate change program just as farmers are increasingly turning to solar, wind, hydroelectric and other alternative energy projects to reduce costs, or even...
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Purdue Gets $5M Global Warming Crop-Research Grant
posted on July 1, 2011 at 12:07 PM
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind (AP) - Purdue University scientists have won a $5 million federal grant to help corn and soybean farmers adapt to the various climate change scenarios global warming is forecast to bring in the coming decades.
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World Stumbles Towards Climate Summit
posted on April 15, 2011 at 3:04 PM
BANGKOK (AP) -- Nineteen years after the world started to take climate change seriously, delegates from around the globe spent five days talking about what they will talk about at a year-end conference in South Africa.
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New Report Exonerates Climate Researchers
posted on February 25, 2011 at 11:02 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Commerce Department investigation has found no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of federal climate researchers whose e-mails were leaked in the debate over global climate change.
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EPA Eases up on Biomass Industry Over Regulating Carbon Dioxide Pollution
posted on January 14, 2011 at 5:01 PM
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- Under pressure from some members of Congress, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is easing up on regulating global warming pollution from facilities that burn biomass for energy.
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According to U.N Study Warming Could Double Food Prices
posted on December 3, 2010 at 4:12 PM
CANCUN, Mexico (AP) -- Even if we stopped spewing global warming gases today, the world would face a steady rise in food prices this century.
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