| Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:05:33 GMT
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|  AFP - Global warming is starting to worry the International Olympic Committee, with concern mounting over how it might affect future Games.
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| Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:03:24 GMT
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| AP - Bolivia's government says it expects thousands of activists, environmentalists and scientists to travel to the Andean nation for conference on climate change.
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| Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:12:29 GMT
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| AP - An instructor at a public community college in Fresno has been presenting his religious views on homosexuality, abortion and global warming as fact to students in an introductory health science class, the American Civil Liberties Union alleged Monday.
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| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:30:33 GMT
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|  AFP - Finnish researchers called for a revision of climate change estimates Monday after their findings showed emissions from soil would contribute more to climate warming than previously thought.
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| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:55:43 GMT
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|  AFP - US President Barack Obama's administration announced plans Monday for a new office handling climate change, aiming to help businesses chart future plans as the nation shifts to a greener economy.
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| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:41:13 GMT
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| AP - The Obama administration on Monday proposed a new agency to study and report on the changing climate.
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| Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:09:01 GMT
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|  AFP - A drought that has gripped the southwestern corner of Australia since the 1970s is linked with higher snowfall in East Antarctica, a phenomenon that may be rooted in global warming, scientists reported on Sunday.
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| Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:33:47 GMT
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|  Reuters - The main impact of climate change will be on water supplies and the world needs to learn from past cooperation such as over the Indus or Mekong Rivers to help avert future conflicts, experts said on Sunday.
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| Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:12:21 GMT
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|  AFP - The UN's top climate official, who is at the heart of a controversy over incorrect global warming data, has penned a racy novel which dishes up sex, reincarnation and a real-life Hollywood actress.
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| Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:19:58 GMT
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|  AFP - Winter Olympics chiefs will not sanction a desperate last-minute venue switch despite unseasonably warm temperatures continuing to curse Cypress Mountain, the host of the freestyle events at the Games which begin on Friday.
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| Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:35:00 GMT
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| Time.com - Two decades' worth of careful measurements of hardwood forests in Maryland show their growth has accelerated significantly over the past two decades. Is it good for global warming?
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| Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:42:32 GMT
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|  AP - The American pika isn't heading for the endangered species list, but federal scientists said there's no question it bears watching as the West warms in the coming decades.
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| Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:47:56 GMT
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|  Reuters - Climate change is transforming the Arctic environment faster than expected and accelerating the disappearance of sea ice, scientists said on Friday in giving their early findings from the biggest-ever study of Canada's changing north.
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| Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:54:55 GMT
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|  Reuters - The U.N.'s panel of climate experts said on Friday it was reviewing whether it wrongly said that more than half of the Netherlands is below sea level in a new glitch after exaggerating the thaw of Himalayan glaciers.
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| Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:33:24 GMT
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|  AFP - The Netherlands has asked the UN climate change panel to explain an inaccurate claim in a landmark 2007 report that more than half the country was below sea level, the Dutch government said Friday.
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| Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:19:45 GMT
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|  AFP - Indian Premier Manmohan Singh on Friday lent his support to the beleaguered UN climate change panel, saying a glaring error in the body's key 2007 report did not change the science of global warming.
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| Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:44:14 GMT
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|  Reuters - Certain countries and companies feel threatened by growing efforts against climate change, the U.N. climate chief said on Thursday, after other officials spoke of a campaign to undermine a consensus on global warming.
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| Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:35:48 GMT
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|  AFP - The United Nations' top climate official on Thursday backed leading global warming scientist Rajendra Pachauri, saying he should ignore calls to resign over errors in a key 2007 report.
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| Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:41:00 GMT
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| McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The Obama administration Wednesday announced plans to boost the use of biofuels — including more ethanol from corn — and speed up work on a plan to capture carbon dioxide from coal, now the biggest source of global warming pollution.
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| Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:20:13 GMT
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| AP - A Penn State University internal inquiry dismissed three allegations of research improprieties against a leading climate scientist but recommended further investigation into one allegation regarding leaked e-mails about global warming.
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