13 May 2013: Arctic Nations Plan for Spills, Environmental Change

A U.S.-led plan to let all countries set their own goals for fighting climate change is gaining grudging support at U.N. talks, even though the current level of pledges is far too low to limit rising temperatures substantially. The approach, being ...

Tony Abbott is facing growing discontent among his colleagues about his $3.2 billion Direct Action plan to combat climate change, a policy once described by Malcolm Turnbull as rubbish. Liberal MPs Mal Washer and Dennis Jensen say the Coalition ...

Energy and climate change secretary will use a major speech at Clarence House to promise stronger action on global warming Ed Davey, the energy and climate change secretary, is to use a major speech at Clarence House on Wednesday afternoon to fight ...

Saving forests offers a new route to alleviating hunger and malnutrition, promoting development and tackling climate change Written by Bharrat Jagdeo, president of Guyana from 1999 to 2011, and now roving ambassador for the Three Basins ...

Jonathan Chait, writer for New York Magazine, talks with Rachel Maddow about why President Obama may be the last best hope for action on climate change while Republicans remain recalcitrant in their ignorance and new, increasingly alarming climate ...

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New, more flexible ways to fight climate change were sketched out at the end of a week of talks between 160 nations, but there was no breakthrough in bridging a deep divide between China and the United States. The meeting of senior officials in ...

(Gerard Wynn is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own.)A US submission to UN-backed negotiations shows how a scaled-down global climate deal which falls short of a full treaty can be agreed in 2015.Much will depend on the United ...

Comprehensive water data base in public domain and assessment of the impact of climate change on water resources; Promotion of citizen and State actions for water conservation, augmentation and preservation; Focused attention to vulnerable areas ...