WASHINGTON, DC, November 21, 2009 (ENS) – Senator Harry Reid, the Democrat majority leader, has put off Senate debate on climate change legislation until next spring, weakening hopes for […]
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, November 19, 2009 (ENS) – The governments of the northern European country of Norway and the South American country of Guyana will cooperate to provide the world with […]
LONDON, UK, November 19, 2009 (ENS) – The latest European climate research shows that human emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide will need to be reduced close to zero […]
By Haider Rizvi NEW YORK, New York, November 19, 2009 (ENS) The United Nations’ climate agency chief says he wants U.S. President Barrack Obama to join world leaders […]
LONDON, UK, November 18, 2009 (ENS) – Women are central to global and national efforts to cope with climate change, concludes a new report, “The State of World Population 2009,” […]
WASHINGTON, DC, November 17, 2009 (ENS) – For the first time in nearly 40 years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to strengthen the nation’s sulfur dioxide air quality […]
BEIJING, China, November 17, 2009 (ENS) – Today, President Barack Obama and President Hu Jintao announced a far-reaching package of measures to strengthen cooperation between the United States and China […]
BRASILIA, Brazil, November 16, 2009 (ENS) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva confirmed today that he will go to Copenhagen in December for the UN climate conference. He […]
SHANGHAI, China, November 16, 2009 (ENS) – “There are very few global challenges that can be solved unless the United States and China agree,” President Barack Obama told an audience […]
TOKYO, Japan, November 13, 2009 (ENS) – Meeting for the first time on Japanese soil, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and President Barack Obama today committed their governments to “a […]
WASHINGTON, DC, November 12, 2009 (ENS) – Emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas produced by burning coal, oil and gas, increased by 19 percent in the United States […]
BOULDER, Colorado, November 12, 2009 (ENS) – Daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as record lows over the last decade across the continental United States, according to […]
BRISTOL, UK, November 12, 2009 (ENS) – Satellite observations and a state-of-the art regional atmospheric model have independently confirmed that the Greenland ice sheet is losing mass at an […]
PORT GHALIB, Egypt, November 11, 2009 (ENS) – Two separate proposals to expand the Montreal Protocol on Ozone-Depleting Substances to include the gases known as hydrofluorocarbons, HFCs, have failed […]
BANDOS ISLAND, Maldives, November 10, 2009 (ENS) – Leaders from countries most vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change today concluded a two-day meeting at the idyllic Bandos […]
MOBILE, Alabama, November 10, 2009 (ENS) – Arriving late in the Atlantic hurricane season, Tropical Storm Ida made landfall around 6:40 am local time this morning on Dauphin Island, […]
WASHINGTON, DC, November 6, 2009 (ENS) – A total of $1.1 billion in new financing will flow to six African countries to assist them in developing renewable energy and […]
BARCELONA, Spain, November 6, 2009 (ENS) – The last negotiating session before the crucial UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen ended today in Barcelona, with some progress made towards […]
BARCELONA, Spain, November 5, 2009 (ENS) – About 70 activists blocked the main entrance to the UN climate change negotiations in Barcelona on Wednesday, demanding steep cuts in the […]
WASHINGTON, DC, November 5, 2009 (ENS) – The Senate committee responsible for the environment has approved the climate change bill despite a Republican boycott. The Clean Energy Jobs and […]
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