Sixty-five world leaders have said they will attend the Copenhagen climate summit in December, and several more have responded positively to invitations, Danish officials say. But the world’s top three carbon polluters – the United States, China and India – have not indicated whether their leaders will attend the meeting, and that could have a [...]

A new study from Norwegian and New Zealand scientists provides updated numbers for CO2 emissions from fossil fuels. While the global financial crisis may have slowed down the emission growth, it has not been sufficient to stop it: From 2007 to 2008 global emissions from fossil fuels increased by 2.2 percent. From 2003 to 2007, [...]

Washington — In the poor, but mineral-rich mountains of the eastern United States known as Appalachia, coal millionaire Don Blankenship hosts a rally for “Friends of America” to hear country music and “learn how environmental extremists and corporate America are both trying to destroy your jobs.” On the other side of the globe, with an [...]

Intelligent people agree that, absent immediate radical action regarding global warming, the human race is sunk. That is a tautology because those who do not agree are, definitionally, unintelligent. Britain’s intelligent prime minister, Gordon Brown, gives scary precision to the word “immediate.” By his reckoning humanity now has about 30 days to save itself. He [...]

UN climate talks in Barcelona last week ended with little progress, prompting speculation that a legally binding treaty will need another year to negotiate. “I don’t think we can get a legally binding agreement by Copenhagen. I think that we can get that within a year after Copenhagen,” UN climate chief Yvo de Boer said [...]

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Researchers in China have documented what they describe as the rapid retreat of glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau, the source of many of the subcontinent’s rivers, and warned of the dangers to the water supply and livelihoods of millions in India, downstream of these rivers. Research teams from Greenpeace China and Green Earth Volunteers, a [...]

Suicide is the latest epidemic among farming communities as climate change parches the heart of India, destroying agriculture and plunging the poorest families into crippling debt In Andhra Pradesh, everyone we met had lost faith in the weather. “It is,” said one woman, a groundnut farmer and a mother of five, “like a bad husband. [...]

President Obama is coming under renewed pressure internationally and in the United States to throw his weight behind climate-change legislation, which advocates fear has suffered in light of the president’s sweeping domestic agenda. The Nobel committee’s announcement Friday that Obama won the Peace Prize was a fresh reminder that much of the world expects him [...]

ONE nation’s thirst for groundwater is having an impact on global sea levels. Satellite measurements show that northern India is sucking some 54 trillion litres of water out of the ground every year. This is threatening a major water crisis and adding to global sea level rise. Virendra Tiwari from the National Geophysical Research Institute [...]