U.N. agency sees El Nino stretching to early 2007
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A moderate "El Nino" event has taken  hold in the tropical Pacific, threatening to trigger further  weather disruption into the first quarter of 2007, the World  Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Friday.
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Bloomberg - Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Negotiators expect to reach a compromise on climate-protection talks after working through Friday night, the United Nations official organizing the conference said.
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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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NEW YORK, Sept. 11 -- The United States should give the United Nations until the end of the year to reform and then consider cutting back on paying its dues if the changes fall short, the U.S. ambassador to the world body said Monday.
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A sea-surface cooling in the Pacific,  which may have contributed to strong hurricanes in the United  States and a freeze-up in China, could last at least until  mid-year, the U.N. weather body WMO said on Monday.
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Climatic change is "very likely" down to human activities, the global body on climate science will say.
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BALI, Indonesia, Dec. 11 -- U.S. officials at U.N. climate negotiations here said Tuesday that they would not embrace any overall binding goals for cutting global greenhouse gas emissions before President Bush leaves office, essentially putting off specific U.S. commitments until a new administra...
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Winter will be warmer than normal in the U.S. Western and Plains states and colder than usual in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions, but the return of El Nino is making it hard for forecasters to hazard a guess for much of the country, meteorologists said on Wednesday.
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Damage to the environment could soon pass a point of no return, according to a major report from the U.N.
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The United States, which has emerged from this year's hurricane season largely unscathed, should brace itself for a potentially devastating hurricane season in 2007, a leading windstorm forecaster warned.
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Intensive diplomatic efforts to agree the elements of a framework by the end of the year for a new global climate change treaty are starting to make headway, according to a European official close to the ...Comment
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An aging weather satellite crucial to accurate predictions on the intensity and path of hurricanes could fail at any moment and plans to launch a replacement have been pushed back seven years to 2016.
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The world's largest disaster relief agency appealed on Tuesday for nearly $300 million in funding for 2007, some 67 percent more than last year, to help countries prepare for climate change and fight AIDS.
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The year 2004, punctuated by four powerful hurricanes in the Caribbean and deadly typhoons lashing Asia, was the fourth-hottest on record, extending a trend since 1990 that has registered the 10 warmest years, a U.N. weather agency said Wednesday.
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Sea temperatures in the southeastern Pacific show no sign of bringing extreme "El Nino" weather conditions in the next two months, Peru's Maritime Institute (IMARPE) said on Tuesday.
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The United Nations mission in East Timor  may be extended by another five years from 2008 to oversee the  revamp of the young nation&#39;s fragile security forces, its chief  said on Monday.
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Fighting global warming will get tougher once the Kyoto protocol ends in 2012 and the world must try to get Washington involved in the long term, the head of the U.N. Environment Program said on Wednesday.