ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - British finance minister Alistair Darling urged his G20 counterparts on Saturday to work toward a $100 billion deal ...
ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - British finance minister Alistair Darling urged his G20 counterparts on Saturday to work toward a $100 billion deal ...
Scientists have discovered the first evidence that dinosaurs roamed the South Island of New Zealand with 70-million-year-old footprints found in six locations. They are the first dinosaur footprints found in the country although bones, mostly vertebrae, have been discovered in two North ...
In energy-hungry China's southwestern Yunnan province, power is being produced at wind farms, dams and garbage dumps as the Asian giant adopts more "green" technology thanks to carbon trading. The UN's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) allows rich countries to fulfil part of ...
JAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesia-based study shows carbon-rich tropical peat lands trap more greenhouse gases than first thought, driving up their potential value on the carbon market and strengthening a case for their protection. Green groups on the sidelines of U.N. climate ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China is weighing the prospect of reaching only a framework agreement at U.N. climate talks this December, but would want guarantees that principles laid out in previous deals would be retained, a top diplomat said on Friday. Vice Foreign ...
LONDON (Reuters) - An international pact and U.S. legislation to tackle climate change will hit oil refiners' profits and may force some to shut some capacity, Thomas O'Malley, chairman of Swiss refiner Petroplus, said on Thursday. Leaders from 190 nations will meet ...
BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - Low-carbon farming can both curb climate change and boost food output in developing nations and so must be rewarded under a global climate deal due in December, the U.N.'s food agency said on Thursday. Steps to cut carbon ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A controversial climate change bill cleared its first hurdle in the U.S. Senate on Thursday, allowing President Barack Obama to tout progress in the run-up to next month's global warming talks in Copenhagen. Democrats on the Senate Environment and ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Max Baucus, an influential moderate Democrat, announced his opposition on Thursday to a climate change bill crafted by fellow Democrats John Kerry and Barbara Boxer. Baucus said he would vote against the bill being considered by the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As a top American diplomat accused developing countries of inaction on global warming, a coalition of senators on Wednesday stepped up efforts to break a political deadlock that has choked U.S. steps on climate change. Todd Stern, President Barack ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have managed to halt a rare and fatal brain disease with an experimental gene therapy technique using a deactivated version of the AIDS virus, a study published on Thursday showed. The international team used a disabled form of ...
