Study Shows New York City Puts Out Nearly One Percent of Greenhouse Gases in U.S.
New York City produces nearly 1 percent of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions -- an amount that puts it on par with Ireland and Portugal -- according to a city study. >> Read the Full Article
New Climate Change Report Released
Warming temperatures will cause increased drought and sea-level rises in Australia and New Zealand by 2030 and threaten ecologically rich sites such as the Great Barrier Reef, according to excerpts from a new scientific report released Tuesday. >> Read the Full Article
Love & Music? Yes. Carbon? No. Woodstock, N.Y., Takes on Global Warming
Woodstock is best known for the 1969 rock concert that borrowed its name and was held some 50 miles away in Bethel. But the old artists' colony is plugging firmly into the zeitgeist of 2007, a time when hybrid cars are hot and Al Gore's climate-change documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," won two Oscars. >> Read the Full Article
Forecaster Blasts Gore on Global Warming
A top hurricane forecaster called Al Gore "a gross alarmist" Friday for making an Oscar-winning documentary about global warming. "He's one of these guys that preaches the end of the world type of things," Dr. William Gray said in an interview with The Associated Press at the National Hurricane Conference in New Orleans. >> Read the Full Article
Duke Foundation To Provide $100 Million for Global Warming Research
A $100 million fund is being set up by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to pay for five years of research into global warming. The aim of the foundation's Climate Change Initiative is to look at policies that can speed the use of new technologies to reduce carbon dioxide, methane and other industrial gases. >> Read the Full Article
Heathrow Passengers Turn Blind Eye to Warming
Aviation contributes less to global warming than the likes of cars and farming but focuses minds on climate change because a single long-haul flight can double someone's annual greenhouse gas emissions. >> Read the Full Article
UN Panel Issues Bleakest Warning on Climate
Top climate experts issued their bleakest forecasts yet about global warming on Friday, ranging from hunger in Africa to a thaw of Himalayan glaciers in a study that may add pressure on governments to act. >> Read the Full Article
Goa, Going, Gone: Asia Tourism Faces Climate Chaos
Enjoy your exotic Asian beach or skiing holidays while you can. In coming decades, warmer weather, rising seas, more intense storms, even changes in ocean currents will literally wipe some idyllic destinations off the tourist map, experts say. >> Read the Full Article
Acidic Oceans Threatening Sea Life, UN Panel Says
Rising carbon dioxide emissions are making the world's oceans more acidic, particularly closer to the poles, heralding disaster for marine life, a major U.N. report on climate change impacts says. >> Read the Full Article
Climate Change Threatens World Natural Wonders, WWF Says
Climate change threatens to destroy the Great Barrier Reef and other natural wonders of the world if nations fail to act to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, environmental group WWF said on Thursday. >> Read the Full Article