Greenland'sice sheetis more sensitive to global warming than previously thought and may already be approaching a critical threshold, researchers in Spain and Germany found.
They include providing clean water and sanitation to the poor, feeding a world population set to rise from seven billion to nine billion by 2050 and coping with the impact of global warming.
It's time for the gloves to come off on climate change http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2012/03/08/taking-gloves-sound-alarm-climate-change
William Brent, GreenWiz, March 07, 2012
The people who accept climate change as a real threat need to accept that they have failed to get other people to accept climate change as a real threat.
A report issued by the UN children's agency and the World Health Organization said over 2 billion people gained access to safe drinking water between 1990 and 2010.
By Andre Tartar The very first stop for Rick Santorum's campaign in Florida (where he came in third) was at Pompano Beach's WorldWide Christian Center, headed by the Reverend O'Neal Dozier, who was also his honorary Florida chairman.
In an exclusive interview, the head of the UN's nuclear agency says it will demand Iran allow access to a key military site—even if it escalates tensions.
First President Shimon Peres arrived as the representative of the "peace camp," and was followed immediately by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The "peace camp" has melted like ice after relying for years on strange mantras such as "the Americans ...
Flood-proofing solutions are needed to face global warming: scientists. Photo: AFP/Queensland Police Service SPORTS fields, car parks and parklands will be important assets; houses will have walls that open, and some people might need to lose their ...
But here he is on Fox Business this morning, declaring that carbon dioxide “literally cannot cause global warming”: BASTARDI: CO2 cannot cause global warming. I'll tell you why. It doesn't mix well with the atmosphere, for one.
The city of Aspen is a national leader in municipal energy-efficiency programs that both reduce the effects of climate change and raise public awareness of the issue. Now a growing chorus is asking why the town's chamber - the 680-business Aspen ...
By Pilita Clark, Environment Correspondent General Electric has brushed aside the doubts leading Republican presidential contenders have raised about climate science.
The influential AFL-CIO almost certainly will endorse Obama for reelection, but many unions are increasingly financing their own efforts instead of writing large checks to the Democratic Party and its candidates.
Trevor Blake is a 10-year-old Woodbridge resident who on Aug. 14, 2007 was diagnosed with cancer. "Trevor's Treasures" helps fellow cancer patients and their families.
But from a climate and urban heat island standpoint, it makes a lot of sense to install bright, white roofs. That's why we say, 'Bright is the new black.
Climate change may be wielding its heavy hand of influence over the Great Lakes. According to a report from the American Meteorological Society, Great Lakes ice coverage has decreased by an average of 71 percent over the past 40 years.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israel pounded Gaza for the second day in a row Saturday, trading airstrikes and rocket fire with Palestinian militants and killing 15 of them as the deadliest Gaza violence in over a year showed no signs of abating.
Weiss: Zionism has created 'rivers of blood'
Aljazeera.com - 8 hours ago
When Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, visited Washington last week on the eve of the Purim holiday, he gave Barack Obama, the US president, what he considered a symbolic gift - a copy of the old testament book of Esther.