Global warming debate over, time to act now: report
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Declaring the global warming debate over, an international team of scientists urged the world's nations on Tuesday to act now to keep climate change from becoming a catastrophe.
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Expect a political debate over how to regulate carbon-dioxide emissions come January, analysts say.
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REYKJAVIK, ICELAND - Canadian scientists at an international symposium on climate change say a new report shows the Kyoto Protocol agreement on limiting fossil fuel emissions is not enough to slow the potentially disastrous warming of the planet.
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SEATTLE -- As the Bush administration debates much of the world about what to do about global warming, butterflies and ski-lift operators, polar bears and hydroelectric planners are on the move.
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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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Global warming in the Arctic is happening now, warns the most comprehensive scientific report to date. The reports concludes that the northern ice cap is warming at twice the global rate and that this will lead to serious consequences for the planet.
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A U.N. report delivers the most comprehensive picture yet on global warming  -  and says that human activity is "very likely" the culprit
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 24 -- U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Monday that a 15-year international effort to stem global warming has not halted the buildup of greenhouse gas emissions and that governments must take "unprecedented action" to reverse the trend.
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Global Warming is a hot topic that shows little sign of cooling down. Earth's climate is changing, but just how it's happening, and our own role in the process, is less certain. Includes photo gallery.
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High-level politicians from the eight nations that make up the Arctic Council met in Reykjavik on Wednesday to discuss ways of combating global warming, which researchers say could melt away the Arctic ice cover within the next 100 years.
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Officials from 113 countries agreed Thursday that a much-awaited international report will say that global warming was "very likely" caused by human activity, delegates to a climate change conference said. Dozens of scientists and bureaucrats are editing the new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in closed-door meetings in Paris. Their report, which must be unanimously approved, is to be released Friday.
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By Douglas Fischer  SAN FRANCISCO - FORGET THE future. Global warming's impacts -- be they sea-level rise, weird weather or vast ecological die-offs -- are well under way here and now.
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United States ought to be leading the parade to curb global warming, not just watching it. After years of delay, Russia appears poised to ratify the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty aimed at limiting
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Climatic change is "very likely" down to human activities, the global body on climate science will say in a major report.
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Negotiators at the international climate talks in Bali reach a last-minute agreement to adopt a blueprint for fighting global warming by 2009.
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By Sun Xiaohua  Experts have urged the government to make climate change an integral part of its development planning in order to address the problem global warming.
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A decade after the world pledged to prevent "dangerous" global warming, 194 nations meet next week to review whether rare heatwaves and a fast Arctic thaw may signal that the planet is nearing the brink.