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John McCain broke with the Bush administration and Republican Party orthodoxy Monday as he not only declared global warming real, but reached out to Democrats and independents with a free-market solution that includes capping carbon-fuel emissions.
Republican John McCain, reaching out to both independents and green-minded social conservatives, argues that global warming is undeniable and the country must take steps to bring it under control while adhering to free-market principles.
While global warming is expected to be strongest at the poles, it may be an even greater threat to species living in the tropics, scientists say.
An outbreak of mountain pine beetles in British Columbia is doing more than destroying millions of trees: By 2020, the beetles will have done so much damage that the forest is expected to release more carbon dioxide than it absorbs, according to new research.
Organizers hope a gathering of governors this week will be as effective in addressing climate change as a similar event that launched the conservation movement a century ago.
California will create a $600 million think tank to fight global warming, funded by a 25- or 30-cent surcharge on customers’ electrical and gas bills, the state Public Utilities Commission has decided.
Around the same time the American West started heating up five years ago, Colorado started losing its lodgepole pine forests to a beetle infestation.
The government made clear on Thursday it will not be rushed into deciding whether to regulate emissions linked to global warming, as the Supreme Court directed nearly a year ago.
The government made clear on Thursday it will not be rushed into deciding whether to regulate emissions linked to global warming, as the Supreme Court directed nearly a year ago.
WASHINGTON (AP _ The Environmental Protection Agency is making clear it will not be rushed into a decision on whether to regulate emissions linked to global warming, as directed by the Supreme Court.
As climate change takes its sway around the world, countries seem to be increasingly experimenting with green technology. Britain is giving an attempt at wind energy. Windmills, the highly proficient source of power, have become the latest weapon to...
The once towering ice sheets of Greenland are fast eroding, ringing the danger bells all around. The fear of a tragic sea-level rise is also round the corner. Is it the beginning of scramble for space on earth and around water bodies?
The once...
What is it that can save our earth from turning into a pressure cooker? Is it the carbon trading or carbon offsetting or carbon capping that would become the savior of mother earth? Think and you will get the answer.
No matter when the question of...
As the world gets richer, environment gets poorer. With technological advancement, there is degradation in the environment. Russia, China, U.S. and India stand as the biggest polluters on earth. Disasters like Chernobyl and Bhopal haven’t opened the...
Arctic is melting at such a rate that in the coming 23 years, it will be left barren. Mounting heat pressure is endangering the most profound ice sheets in the world.
Ice in the Arctic usually begins to freeze over the winter. But, this summer...
Humans are reluctant to forego their luxurious lifestyle, with zooming cars, lightening homes, buzzing everyday life, unaware of the future danger or I may say reluctant to pay heed to the looming threat. But, ever imagined, who is suffering at the...
Present is a key to the past, but past holds the key to the future. The sudden change in climate set the evolution process at par with extinction, resulting in the disappearance of a vast number of species. Reason? Lets find out.
Nearly 90...
The way we are fuelling the atmosphere, it is estimated that we will be left with no glaciers, no ice sheets to cover our towering mountains in the next 50 years. And to add to the misery of the atmosphere, unwarranted pollution is amassing a cover...
We all know by now that the massive ice sheets covering both Greenland and Antarctica are melting dramatically. And global warming is to be blamed for this. But, NASA scientists made the most comprehensive survey ever undertaken. They confirm climate...
It has been recorded that a sudden increase in the Earth’s temperature 180 million years ago has killed several species. Now, it is being postulated that climate change could aggrandize the invasion of dominating species into wider ranges, according to...
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