Costa Rican Center on Front Lines of Climate-Change Fight
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By NATALIE STOREY  Workers preserve forest lands while helping farmers make profits  It wasn't so long ago that farmers and cattle herders in southern Costa Rica, in their efforts to survive, had nearly destroyed part of one of the world's most beautiful rain forests.
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WORKERS were urged today by the TUC to help tackle climate change by taking simple measures such as switching off computers and lights, reducing waste and walking or cycling to the office.  (c) 2006 Liverpool Echo. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
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The race for the first carbon-neutral, zero-emissions community is on, from Costa Rica to Libya to an island in San Francisco Bay.
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Latin America and the Caribbean face the risk of more climate-related disasters, a report warns.
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Climate scientists tell a conference that greater efforts should be made to pull CO2 from the atmosphere.
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By JULIAN BELTRAME  OTTAWA (CP) - With the world scrambling to combat global warming, one segment of the green movement offering one of the most innovative approaches to saving the planet is still fighting for acceptance - not from the public, but from environmentalists.
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A lawsuit filed against California's San Bernardino County regarding the region's suburban sprawl may represent a new legal tactic to fight global warming.
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Uganda's Karimojong herders are the latest example of how global warming contributes to increased fighting.
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High-level climate-change summits this week reveal a supportive environment for action.
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The ice is melting and the heat is on for international delegates assembling in Buenos Aires this week to find new ways to confront global warming under the 194-nation treaty on climate change.
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Environmental and development groups joined forces in warning here that global warming threatens to hit the world's poorest people hardest and magnify existing injustices.
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Scholars from different disciplines are crossing lines to share ideas about reducing the threat of climate change.
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The United Nations says momentum is building for tougher long-term action to fight global warming beyond the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol and a climate meeting starting in Vienna on Monday will be a crucial part of the process.
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But problems arise when it comes time to pin down those responsible for climate change.
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BALI, Indonesia, Dec. 13 -- As former vice president Al Gore urged delegates here Thursday night to "go far, quickly" in reducing greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming, international negotiators remained at an impasse over how to construct a road map leading to a worldwide climate...
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An international group of corporate leaders calls for global targets on reducing greenhouse emissions.
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From activists to tycoons, politicians to inventors, these are the remarkable people trying to cool a warming earth