UN Calls for Urgent Action on Climate Change
August 31, 2008
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change marks 20th anniversary
New Fossils Suggest Ancient Cat-sized Reptiles in Antarctica (LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - Cat-sized reptiles once roamed what is now the icebox of Antarctica, snuggling up in burrows and peeping above ground to snag plant roots and insects. The evidence for this scenario comes from preserved burrow casts discovered in the Transantarctic Mountains, which extend 3,000 miles (4,800 km) across the polar continent and contain layers of rock dating back 400 million years. ...
Feds warn climate change could harm giant sequoias
Federal researchers are warning that warming temperatures could soon cause California's giant sequoia trees to die off more quickly unless forest managers plan with an eye toward climate change and the impact of a longer, harsher wildfire season. 
Grasshoppers are recruited as climate...
The rasping summer sound of grasshoppers chirping in fields and meadows is to be used to help to track climate changes.
Bush Hails G-8 summit's work on...
President Bush on Wednesday hailed the G-8 summit's success in coalescing behind a global climate change strategy, saying he hopes the plan ultimately will help developing...
THE WHITE HOUSE - G8 Declaration on Environment and...
Climate Change: 22. We reconfirm the significance of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as providing the most comprehensive...
07/08/08
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Climate change strategy isolates US...
Leaders at the Group of Eight summit struggled to agree on how to combat climate change as they try to move forward U.N.-led talks aimed at forging a new global warming accord...
Agencies' report warns of faster...
The United States faces the possibility of much more rapid climate change by the end of the century than previous studies have suggested, according to a report led by the U.S....
Extreme weather to increase with...
Droughts will get dryer, storms will get stormier and floods will get deeper with changing climate, a government research report said Thursday. Events that have seemed...
Pacific nations call for help on climate change (AFP)
AFP - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd joined Pacific island nations Tuesday in a call for immediate help to cope with the impact of climate change in the region.
Colorful study probes climate change, fall foliage
Could climate change dull the blazing palette of New England's fall foliage? The answer could have serious implications for one of the region's signature attractions, which draws thousands of "leaf peepers" every autumn.
Leader of disappearing island nation...
The leader of a country slowly being submerged by the Pacific Ocean told an environment conference Thursday that climate change is an issue of human survival, not economic...
06/05/08
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Congress Faces Major Decisions on...
OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, May 29 (OneWorld) - Two potentially important boosts to efforts to halt climate change coincided this week with the publication of a major scientific...
Fed report says climate change risks...
AP - Climate change is increasing the risk of U.S. crop failures, depleting the nation's water resources and contributing to outbreaks of invasive species and insects, according...
Fed report says climate change risks...
Climate change is increasing the risk of U.S. crop failures, depleting the nation's water resources and contributing to outbreaks of invasive species and insects, according to a...
Developing Nations Discuss Ways to...
UN-sponsored meeting in Accra, Ghana aimed at forging deal to replace Kyoto protocol, which expires in 2012
Forum Promotes African Climate Change...
First African Carbon Forum bringing together environmentally minded business people and investors in Dakar, hoping Africa will play large role in helping to mitigate climate change
09/04/08
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Rock Reunites Antarctica and North America (LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - A solitary chunk of granite, small enough to heft in one hand, is key evidence that Australia and parts of Antarctica were once attached to North America, a new study suggests. The Earth's continents are thought to have collided to become supercontinents and broken apart again several times in Earth's 4.5 billion year history. The most recent supercontinent was Pangaea, which began to break apart about 200 million years ago; the landmasses that comprised Pangaea eventually wandered into the current configuration of continents. ...
Tropical species also threatened by climate change
If you can't stand global warming, get out of the tropics. While the most significant harm from climate change so far has been in the polar regions, tropical plants and animals may face an even greater threat, say scientists who studied conditions in Costa Rica. 
Moon as research outpost, training...
One of the host of challenges facing NASA as the agency plans to rekindle robotic and human exploration of the moon is the development of a corps of investigators and...
West Africa's coastline redrawn by...
AFP - Rising sea levels caused by climate change will brutally redraw a 4,000-kilometre (2500-mile) stretch of west African coastline from Senegal to Cameroon by century's end,...
Palin's statements on climate change...
Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's assertion that she believes humans play a role in climate change - made in her first major interview since joining the Republican...
Australian PM urges more US climate...
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd urged the United States on Tuesday to take more action on climate change and become more involved in the global debate on the issue.
Australian PM urges more US climate...
AP - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd urged the United States on Tuesday to take more action on climate change and become more involved in the global debate on the issue.
Return of the native oak helps birds...
Garden birds are being protected from the effects of climate change by an
alien tree, researchers have found.