Climate Change Meeting To Focus On Ensuring Countries Keep Commitments
The meeting in Bonn, Germany, comes a day after European energy companies urged countries to adopt a pricing system for carbon emissions.
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Revealed: The Ocean's Tiniest Life At The Bottom Of The Food Chain
The ocean's tiniest inhabitants — including bacteria, plankton, krill — are food for most everything that swims or floats. Now, scientists have completed a count of this vast and diverse hidden world.
In Speech, Obama Will Cast Climate Change As 'Immediate Risk' To U.S. Security
President Obama is expected to discuss the dangers of climate change when he delivers the commencement address today at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
Massive Antarctic Ice Shelf Will Be Gone Within Years, NASA Says
What's left of the Larsen B shelf, two-thirds of which underwent a spectacular collapse in 2002, will disappear by the end of the decade, according to a new study.
A Novel Dutch Lawsuit Demands Government Cut Carbon Emissions
An environmental group is behind the class-action suit that says the government is not doing enough to protect citizens. A ruling in the closely watched case is expected next month.
U.S. Promises To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions Up To 28 Percent By 2025
The new target was submitted to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change Tuesday. It is part of a plan for a new international treaty to be hammered out in December in Paris.
Big Shelves Of Antarctic Ice Melting Faster Than Scientists Thought
The rate at which the ice is shrinking at the ocean's edge in the West Antarctic has increased by 70 percent over the past decade, an analysis of satellite measurements suggests.
Meet The Cool Beans Designed To Beat Climate Change
Researchers in Colombia have created new types of beans that can withstand high heat. Many of these "heat-beater" beans resulted from a unique marriage, 20 years ago, of tradition and technology.
Top Beijing Scientist: China Faces 'Huge Impact' From Climate Change
The head of the country's meteorological administration says it faces climate disasters and ecological degradation resulting from a warming planet.
Scientists Catch Up On The Sex Life Of Coral To Help Reefs Survive
It's all in the timing. Biologists haven't been able to breed embryos of the rare, pillar coral in the lab because it's been tough to catch the creatures in the act.