Here are just a few of the events held in Alameda as the city helps celebrate the 40th Earth Day. Through individual and community awareness and actions Alamedans can become agents of change for a hea ...More

On April 1 the Environmental Protection Agency established rules restricting greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks, starting in 2012. This is the first of what could become a sweeping series o ...More

Where do we ... we turn to when addressing climate change? The climate change conundrum has become a talk-shop between politicians of economy-driven developing and developed countries. Prominent Bri ...More

The Oval Office at the White House. A top Obama advisor says it is "imperative" for the US to tackle climate change and address reliance on foreign oil. Photograph: Ron Edmonds/AP In a clear signal ...More

A UNIVERSITY research unit accused of manipulating climate data has been cleared of any impropriety by an independent review into its science. The University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit ( ...More

Bonds | Global Markets California, Ontario and British Columbia are key members of the 11-state-and-province WCI, which aims to cut emissions 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 through the mark ...More

Looming just behind the climate change negotiators laboring in Senate conference rooms is "Plan B" -- an "energy only" bill that is smaller in scope and enjoys bipartisan support. There is a committe ...More

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — There is no clear evidence that gas drilling, wind energy development, climate change and other factors are harming the Wyoming pocket gopher and justify protecting the animal under t ...More

Last Thursday the World Bank approved a £2.4bn loan to build a huge new coal-fired power station in South Africa. The issue has exposed the rift between two central international goals – alleviating p ...More

WASHINGTON – Coal industry officials came to Capitol Hill on Wednesday with two messages for Congress: Coal is an important energy source that's essential to the nation's prosperity, and safety remain ...More

No doubt you've heard the warnings -- the melting ice caps and rising sea levels, the extinct polar bears and extreme weather conditions. From pop culture movies like The Day After Tomorrow, to the ti ...More

LONDON: An independent review into the work at one of the world's leading climate research centers says it found no evidence of deliberate scientific malpractice at the British university unit. Th ...More

Watch CBS News Videos OnlineClimate Change and the environment has taken a back-seat to other domestic issues like health care and the economy in President Obama's first year in office, but that's not ...More

Where has global warming gone? Climate change enthusiasts have been unusually silent since the disappointing Copenhagen Summit last December. A series of ethical gaffes, such as the e-mail controversy ...More

An expert on climate change has suggested that scientists today could learn much from looking at historical periods of extremes of weather and climate. Writing in the latest edition of the Scottis ...More

Ahmedabad: A one-day seminar on the lack of implementation of the environmental laws, improper functioning of environment monitoring, lack of infrastructure and incorporation of the millet crop in the ...More

LONDON: A review of the work of one of the world's leading climate research centres, launched after a major scandal last year, concluded Wednesday there had been no deliberate scientific malpractice. ...More

Bringing down greenhouse gas emissions with a "cap and trade" system of tradable emissions allowances seemed like a good idea. When first proposed, the prospect of setting up a carbon market to create ...More

New Delhi, 13 April: Almost a month after India's key negotiator on climate change Mr Shyam Saran quit the post, environment minister Mr Jairam Ramesh today said he will be heading the country's clima ...More

New Delhi, April 13 The Environment Ministry has rejected a proposal to set up a port at Positra, near Jamnagar in Gujarat pointing out that it would impact the marine ecosystem in the Gulf of Kutch. ...More