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1. The Environmental Protection Agency has taken a major step toward regulating greenhouse gases, saying they are threat to the public health. The news comes as the UN's biggest climate change conference is underway in Denmark. Organizers say this ma...
1. President Barack Obama accepts the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway. The president says he may be able to live up to the honor if he can make progress on the nuclear-free world and tackling climate change. 2. Pakistani investigators are trying to find...
In Southeast Asia, people know well the risks that extreme weather can bring, and they worry that a warmer climate will increase those risks. !Pros Laput, Daniel Schearf | Bangkok 19 December 2009 When Typhoon Ketsana hit Manila this year, the crowde...
With three days remaining at the Copenhagen climate talks, India's government is expressing its disappointment with the proposals put forth so far. Steve Herman | New Delhi 16 December 2009 Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao (file photo) Officials...
The upcoming climate change summit in Copenhagen comes amid warnings that rising temperatures and changing weather patterns are having a devastating impact on poor countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Peter Heinlein | Addis Ababa 06 December...
China and the United States have agreed to strengthen cooperation in areas like clean energy, as the international community gets ready to discuss a new climate treaty in Copenhagen, this December. U.S. special envoy for climate change Todd Stern ha...
The United Nations' World Meteorological Organization says there is a close relationship between weather-climate systems and global pollution. The organization says these relationships also affect people's health. The World Meteorological Organizati...
Some of the world's top scientists are wrapping up a three-day, climate-change meeting in Copenhagen with a grim warning that global warming is arriving faster than previously expected. The Copenhagen meeting drew about 2,000 scientists from around...
Aid agencies warn that East Timor faces a food crisis and more than half of its youngest children are going hungry as global food prices soar. A new survey reveals that more than 70 percent of households across East Timor are unable to find enough t...