The President strongly believes that all nations have a responsibility to combat the threat of climate change. He has already taken unprecedented action to do so at home, including an historic investment in clean energy solutions that will reduce our dependence on oil and create jobs.  Abroad, he has engaged leaders bilaterally and multilaterally on [...]

There are substantial variations in the amount of carbon being absorbed by the North Atlantic Ocean, a study shows. Writing in Science, an international team of researchers said the ocean’s uptake of carbon varied by as much as 10% over the space of a few years. The data set, described as the largest of its [...]

The University of East Anglia in Britain has named Sir Muir Russell, who has held various academic posts in Scotland, to lead an independent inquiry into allegations about the quality of research and data-keeping at the university’s Climatic Research Unit and the conduct of some scientists there. The hacking and subsequent release of thousands of [...]

LONDON (Reuters) – Climate skeptics, people who doubt the science on global warming, must not be allowed to sabotage U.N. climate talks which start next week, Britain’s Energy and Climate Secretary said Thursday. “I do think that we have to beware of the climate saboteurs, the people who want to say the science is somehow [...]

COPENHAGEN, Dec 3 (IPS) – A small group of indigenous people have travelled here to the historic Copenhagen climate talks to show negotiators dramatic documentary videos they made about the immediate impacts of climate change on their homelands and way of life. “We want to show policymakers what the three-year long drought in my country [...]

CHICAGO — State and Federal agencies have begun poisoning a nearly 6-mile stretch of the Chicago Sanitary Ship Canal to kill off invasive Asian carp while maintenance is performed on an electrical barrier intended to keep the fish out of Lake Michigan. The Lake’s ecosystem is already irreparably damaged by invasive species making the introduction [...]

ANTARCTICA is turning green. Images of a white, barren continent could need updating as climate change brings more plants to Antarctica’s formerly frozen shores. An international report issued today has found that winter temperatures in west Antarctica have increased by as much as five degrees Celsius – and that allows cushion plants and grasses to [...]

If it wasn’t so serious we could all just sit, watch take our time and just laugh – I guess there is always time for some fun – how much time?…..Well I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. var showHover=false;