NUSA DUA, Bali, Indonesia, December 12, 2007 (ENS) - The world is counting on a breakthrough at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has told delegates at the summit, calling the fight against global warming “the moral challenge of ou...

OSLO, Norway, December 10, 2007 (ENS) - Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore said today that there still is time to forestall the most disastrous impacts of climate change, but only if the world community unites and acts immediately.In his lecture upon acceptance of the prize he shares with the United N...

NUSA DUA, Bali, Indonesia, December 10, 2007 (ENS) - At the half-way point of the UN climate change conference in Bali, delegates from the world’s biggest polluters, the United States and China, are declining to commit to the steep cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases scientists say are neces...

By J.R. Pegg WASHINGTON, DC, December 7, 2007 (ENS) – Senate Democrats failed to force a vote today on sweeping energy legislation approved Thursday by the U.S. House of Representatives, as critics balked at provisions that repeal oil industry tax breaks and create a national renewable elec...

NUSA DUA, Bali, Indonesia, December 5, 2007 (ENS) - Adaptations to climate change that are working for farmers in the Sudan and China, flood-prone cities in Argentina and Uruguay, and Caribbean islands at risk of dengue fever, among others, were presented in a new report at the United Nations clim...

WASHINGTON, DC, December 3, 2007 (ENS) - Global agriculture could go into steep, unanticipated declines due to complications that scientists have so far inadequately considered, say three new reports authored by U.S. and international researchers.Developing countries may lose 334 million acres of ...