News tagged with climate crisis

Warner: Climate change a national security issue

(AP) -- Former Vice President Al Gore, a leading voice on climate change, urged lawmakers Friday to overcome partisan differences and pass legislation to curb greenhouse gases.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (52) | comments 10

Climate heavy-hitters to address House panel

(AP) -- Former Vice President Al Gore called a House bill that would curb the gases blamed for global warming the most important legislation ever in Congress.

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created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (41) | comments 7

Gore, others urge CEOs to back climate change deal

(AP) -- Climate-change heavyweights U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and Nobel prize winner Al Gore urged more than 500 business leaders on Sunday to lend their corporate muscle to reaching a global deal on reducing ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 24, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (34) | comments 3

New plan to reduce planes' CO2 emissions

(AP) -- Aviation groups in Europe announced a plan Tuesday to change the way commercial planes land in order to reduce their global-warming emissions of carbon dioxide.

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created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (29) | comments 4

Biggest jump ever seen in global warming gases

(AP) -- The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped by the biggest amount on record, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated, a sign of how feeble the world's efforts are at slowing man-made ...

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created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (32) | comments 29

Rising temperatures threaten a food crisis

A recent study reports that the geographical range of some agricultural crops -- such as corn and beans -- may be greatly reduced if temperatures continue to rise. While some farmers may be able to readjust ...

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Climate talks inch ahead on aid despite discord

Climate negotiators said they made progress on laying out ways to help poor countries but deep differences remained on core issues ahead of a make-or-break talks in South Africa.

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created Oct 08, 2011 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (8) | comments 3

Fossil-fuel emissions unbraked by financial crisis

Emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from fossil fuels and the cement industry scaled a record high in 2010, rocketing by 5.9 percent over 2009 in a surge led by developing countries, scientists reported on Sunday.

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created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 10

The biodiversity crisis: Worse than climate change

Biodiversity is declining rapidly throughout the world. The challenges of conserving the world's species are perhaps even larger than mitigating the negative effects of global climate change. Dealing with the biodiversity ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Global CEOs back greenhouse gas cuts, carbon caps

(AP) -- A global summit of business leaders urged governments to order steep and mandatory cuts in greenhouse gases Tuesday, favoring a cap-and-trade system instead of a tax to set a market price for carbon ...

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created May 26, 2009 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (10) | comments 2

Solar greenhouses: China's winning solution to global energy crisis

Solar greenhouses have played a vital role in China's agricultural scene for years. New innovations in greenhouse design are allowing growers to produce more varieties of vegetables, even during long winter months. In a recently ...

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created Mar 17, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Russia slams Kyoto Protocol

Russia supports Canada's decision to pull out of the Kyoto Protocol, says its foreign ministry, reaffirming Friday that Moscow will not take on new commitments.

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created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 24

Americans support action on global warming despite economic crisis

Even in the midst of a growing economic crisis last fall, over 90 percent of Americans said that the United States should act to reduce global warming, according to a national survey released today by researchers at Yale ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0