Talks on a new global warming agreement have begun to resolve some major sticking points, the U.N. climate chief said Wednesday, sounding a promising note after months of sluggish negotiations often marked by confrontation among industrial and developing countries.

Flooded subways. Bridges deteriorating in the hot sun. Rising seas nipping at the edges of Manhattan.

Extra innings will have a new look in what could be baseball’s last Olympic appearance.Each team’s at-bat in the 11th inning and beyond will begin with runners on first and second bases. Teams may start the 11th at any point in their batting order...

Environmental Protection Agency chief Stephen Johnson has declined to explain before Congress how a conclusion he made last year that global warming put the public in danger could lead to a decision not to regulate greenhouse gases.In a 28-page document...

A decade-long drought in Australia’s most important crop-growing region is worsening and there is little hope for relief from either saving rains or a new government conservation plan, officials said Thursday.The Murray-Darling river system, which...

A joint gathering of major developed and developing nations on Wednesday agreed that climate change was “one of the great global challenges of our time” and pledged to back a United Nations effort to conclude new climate pact by 2009. The major...

World leaders embraced for the first time on Tuesday an ambitious but nonbinding goal of slashing greenhouse-gas emissions in half by midcentury to stave off global warming. Unimpressed environmentalists called the effort too slow and too...

Japan’s prime minister says the Group of Eight industrialized economies have endorsed cutting world greenhouse gases in half by 2050.Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda says the agreement was struck Tuesday during the G-8 summit in northern Japan.Fukuda says...

The global food crisis will only worsen because of climate change, the U.N. climate chief said Friday, urging leaders of the world’s richest countries meeting in Japan next week to set goals to reduce carbon emissions within the next dozen years.Food...

A New Mexico appeals court on Friday ruled against a Los Alamos man who wanted to change his name to a phrase containing a popular four-letter obscenity.The man appealed after a state district judge in Bernalillo County refused his request to change his...