EDMONTON — Alberta’s biggest greenhouse gas producers paid the provincial government about $63 million last year to cover failures to meet carbon reduction targets, officials reported Wednesday aftern ...More

The first international ministers conference on climate change since the failed UN summit at Copenhagen in 2009 wrapped up in Bonn, Germany, on Tuesday (04.05.2010). A focus group of some 40 countries ...More

BRUSSELS - The president of the European Commission engaged in some public arm- twisting of the Harper government Wednesday in advance of this summer's G8 and G20 summits in Canada. Jose Ma ...More

Last night, I asked: Is India rich enough to pay for the cost of transition to a low-carbon economy? I asked this in the context of the current moves in international climate-change negotiations, whic ...More

Climate change has made nights warmer in India over the past decade, an ominous sign for the nation's vital rice crop. This development could have a far-reaching impact on the yield of rice, causin ...More

WASHINGTON - For the Rev. Douglas Hunt, saving the environment isn't a political fight but a moral one that is rooted in his religious faith. It's about protecting God's creation, caring for your n ...More

NEW DELHI: India has made one of the strongest and most elaborate formal submissions in recent times for the climate change negotiations, hardening its stance ahead of a hectic six months of talks lea ...More

Last night, I asked: Is India rich enough to pay for the cost of transition to a low-carbon economy? I asked this in the context of the current moves in international climate-change negotiations, whic ...More

CHICAGO, May 5, 2010 (Xinhua News Agency) -- Former U.S. vice president and climate change activist Al Gore said on Wednesday that biotechnology should play a leading role in improving the ...More

The Harper government was urged to fight climate change on both sides of the Atlantic Wednesday through separate votes in both the Canadian and European parliaments. Photograph by: Chris Wattie, Reut ...More

India and the US are set on a confrontation on the crucial issue of climate change. Both nations have made their respective submissions to UNFCC’s ad hoc working group on Long Term Commitment to Actio ...More

Colorado State University has received a $15 million grant to look at the impact of climate change on livestock around the globe, particularly in developing countries. CSU will manage the grant and ...More

Canada’s Environment Minister says other countries are beginning to understand the need to find a political, rather than a bureaucratic, consensus on climate-change mitigation. Jim Prentice was in ...More

From left; Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune; Sen. Bill Nelson, Sen. Robert Menendez,,Environment America Executive Director Margie Alt; Oceana Chief Executive Officer Andrew Sharpless, Sen ...More

(CNSNews.com) - Actor and environmental activist Adrian Grenier told CNSNews.com that, in reference to threats to the planet, “something may get us before climate change.” He cited the potential extin ...More

Federal Government has developed a national climate framework, adaptation and mitigation strategies, intensive research efforts, awareness creation and capacity building as measures to address the cha ...More

NAIROBI, Kenya -- It's the rainy season, but the sun is still baking the Mathare Valley slum. A half-million people live in this warren of shacks clustered amid 10 square kilometers of the Mathare Ri ...More

Environmental groups want language encouraging offshore drilling removed from climate legislation in light of the giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that poses a potentially historic hazard to frag ...More

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— Alaska Natives and Alaska conservation groups yesterday appealed the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to issue Clean Air Act permits to Shell Oil for the company’s plans t ...More

Harold T. Shapiro, the former president of Princeton University and the University of Michigan, has agreed to become chairman of a new 12-member panel that will review the practices of the United Nati ...More