U.N. panel blames humans for warming
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The U.N. climate panel agreed in its starkest warning yet on Thursday that human activities are causing global warming that may bring more droughts, heatwaves and rising seas, delegates said.
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To head off the worst of climate change, governments must pour tens of billions of dollars more than they are into clean-energy research and enforce sharp rollbacks in fossil-fuel emissions, an expert scientific panel reported to the United Nations on Tuesday.
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Millions of Africans are likely to be worst affected by global warming, a conference on climate change hears.
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Global warming is so severe that it will "continue for centuries," leading to a far different planet in 100 years, warned a grim landmark report from the world's leading climate scientists and government officials. Yet, many of the experts are hopeful that nations will now take action to avoid the worst scenarios.
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PARIS, Feb 2 (IPS) - Stark warnings over the damaging effect of  impending climate change were underlined in the release Friday of  the fourth assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate  Change (IPCC).
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The next report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change should deal with the "frightening" possibility that both Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets start melting at the same time, the chief U.N. climate scientist said Tuesday.
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An international panel of experts urged Washington on Monday to join other nations in a drive to avert the "ecological time bomb" of global warming.
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Global warming could cost the world up to $20 trillion over two decades for cleaner energy sources and do the most harm to people who can least afford to adapt, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns in a new report.
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The mammoth U. N. report on climate change--the work of 3,700 scientists the world over--is out. Their conclusion: We made this mess.
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With governments at a global warming summit divided, the United Nations released an alarming new report.
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The Earth's climate is out of balance and warming as a result of human activities, a leading scientific society warns.
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Science & environment: In pictures:  A UN report has warned of the dangers posed by global warming.
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LONDON, Oct 20 (IPS) - Environmental and development groups have come   together to warn that global warming threatens the Millennium  Development  Goals.
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2006 is set to be the world's  sixth-warmest year since records began 150 years ago, the World  Meteorological Organization said on Thursday, offering more  evidence of a trend most scientists blame on greenhouse gases.
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Climate change is making forest fires around the world bigger and more intense, increasing the threat to people and the environment and costing countries millions in damage and firefighting expenses, the United Nations said Thursday.
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UNITED NATIONS A high-level panel is calling for changes in the United Nations to better handle global threats in the 21st century.
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The debate is over: Global warming is here and humans are "very likely" the blame, an international group of scientists meeting in Paris, France, announced Friday.