Favorable weather conditions awaited the shuttle Atlantis and its seven-astronaut crew on their expected return to Earth on Friday, after a successful 11-day ...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in Brazil Thursday for a one-day meeting on climate change and Amazon forest conservation, hailed new US and Chinese proposals on combating global warming as "extremely encouraging." At a press conference, Sarkozy praised US President Barack Obama's "courage" ...
MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters) - The presidents of France and Brazil said on Thursday that rich countries must immediately boost aid for developing nations to fight global warming if they want to reach a climate accord in Copenhagen next month. Brazilian President Luiz ...
Obama wants big carbon dioxide cuts, but daily life should be much the same with higher bills Americans' day-to-day lives won't change noticeably if President Barack Obama achieves his newly announced goal of slashing carbon dioxide pollution by one-sixth in the next ...
In reversal, Canada's prime minister to attend UN climate-change meeting in Copenhagen Canada's prime minister is reversing his position and will attend a United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen next month, Stephen Harper's spokesman said Thursday. Dimitri Soudas announced Harper decided ...
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whose government is often criticized for dragging its feet on global warming, will attend U.N. talks next month in Copenhagen designed to find a successor to the Kyoto climate change protocol. Harper spokesman Dimitri ...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Brazil Thursday to urge nations straddling the Amazon basin to adopt tough measures to combat climate change and preserve rainforests. Called by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the one-day meeting in the city of ...
China's pledge on greenhouse gases means it would shoulder more than a quarter of the CO2 emissions cuts needed to avoid dangerous global warming, a top economist said Thursday. "China alone would be responsible for more than 25 percent of the reductions ...
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will attend international climate talks next month, his office said Thursday, as 3,000 scientists pressed Ottawa to seek a deal on deeper CO2 emissions cuts. A spokesman for Harper told AFP he will travel to Copenhagen for ...
Indonesia plans to deport seven foreign Greenpeace activists involved in a protest against deforestation, seen as a contributor to global warming, the group said Thursday. The seven were among a group of 14 activists detained on Wednesday after some of them chained ...
