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Obama making plans to tackle global warming
President Barack Obama is planning a major push using executive powers to tackle the pollution blamed for global warming in an effort to make good on promises he made at the start of his second term. "We know we have to do more — and we will do more," Obama ...
World Bank highlights climate-poverty link
The World Bank says it will increasingly view its efforts to help developing countries fight poverty through a "climate lens." In a report released Wednesday, the international lending institution warned that heat waves, rising seas, more severe storms and other impacts of climate change will trap millions of people in ...
Obama renews calls for nuclear reductions
Appealing for a new citizen activism in the free world, President Barack Obama renewed his call Wednesday to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles and to confront climate change, a danger he called "the global threat of our time." In a wide-ranging speech that enumerated a litany of challenges facing ...
Scientists: Soggy British weather likely to stay
The best advice for visitors to Britain — pack an umbrella — is more vital than ever. Weather scientists said Tuesday that a country that has been unusually soggy in recent years is not likely to dry out soon, and a warm Atlantic Ocean may be to blame. Meteorologists and ...
Recent Kansas editorials
The Wichita Eagle, June 16 Failure to deliver at DMV Renewing a driver's license shouldn't take multiple attempts and a wait of three, four or five hours. That it does for many people in the Wichita area these days is a failure to deliver one of the most basic of ...
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Tax, trade and Syria on menu as UK's Cameron rallies world leaders to G-8 summit in N.Ireland ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron says leaders gathering Monday for the G-8 summit in Northern Ireland should reach speedy agreement on trade and tax reforms, and draw inspiration ...
Beyond NYC: Other places adapting to climate, too
From Bangkok to Miami, cities and coastal areas across the globe are already building or planning defenses to protect millions of people and key infrastructure from more powerful storm surges and other effects of global warming. Some are planning cities that will simply adapt to more water. But climate-proofing a ...
Climate talk shifts from curbing CO2 to adapting
Efforts to curb global warming have quietly shifted as greenhouse gases inexorably rise. The conversation is no longer solely about how to save the planet by cutting carbon emissions. It's becoming more about how to save ourselves from the warming planet's wild weather. It was Mayor Michael Bloomberg's announcement last ...
UN climate talks marred by decision-making spat
U.N. climate talks have hit a stumbling block that some delegates say poses a serious challenge to their already slow-moving attempt to craft a global response to climate change. As the latest negotiation session ended Friday in the German city of Bonn, one track of the talks was paralyzed by ...
Cuba girds for climate change by reclaiming coasts
After Cuban scientists studied the effects of climate change on this island's 3,500 miles (5,630 kilometers) of coastline, their discoveries were so alarming that officials didn't share the results with the public to avoid causing panic. The scientists projected that rising sea levels would seriously damage 122 Cuban towns or ...
Protecting NYC: Mayor's plan, successor's question
A $20 billion plan to gird New York with levees, flood gates and other defenses is a bold stroke from a mayor who saw the city through Superstorm Sandy and has championed preparedness for global warming. But the future of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's sweeping proposals will largely rest with his ...
US-China climate deal was long in the works
Disparate interests ranging from environmental activists to businesses and industry are lining up to support a first-of-its-kind deal between the U.S. and China to phase out a chemical blamed for climate change. Although it took most proponents by surprise, the deal was in the bag before President Barack Obama and ...
Levees, removable walls proposed to protect NYC
Removable floodwalls would be erected in lower Manhattan, and levees, gates and other defenses would be built elsewhere around the city under a nearly $20 billion plan Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed Tuesday to protect New York from storms and the effects of global warming. The plan — which would also ...
Kan. school board approves new science standards
The Kansas state school board Tuesday approved new, multistate science standards for public schools that treat both evolution and climate change as key concepts to be taught from kindergarten through the 12th grade. The State Board of Education voted 8-2 on for standards developed by Kansas, 25 other states and ...
UN chief urges graduates to be 'global citizens'
The head of the United Nations urged University of Denver graduates Friday to be "global citizens" and to fight to conquer poverty, hunger and hatred. Speaking at the university's graduate commencement ceremony, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon talked up the U.N.'s ambitious roadmap to tackle the world's major challenges, including poverty, ...
Colby opts against fossil-fuel divestment
Trustees at Maine's Colby College have decided not to stop investing endowment money in oil, gas and other companies connected to fossil fuels, but students say they'll continue trying to build support for the move. Students asked the board's investment committee to consider divesting investments in companies they say contribute ...
Exxon rejects gay-discrimination ban
The CEO of Exxon Mobil Corp. says there's no quick replacement for oil, and sharply cutting oil's use to reduce greenhouse gas emissions would make it harder to lift 2 billion people out of poverty. "What good is it to save the planet if humanity suffers?" CEO Rex Tillerson said ...
Nevadans can study mountain climate via webcams
Bright sun melts scattered patches of late-spring snow in a bristlecone forest high along the western slope of the Snake Mountains. The tranquil scene is 300 miles northeast of Las Vegas, but anyone with a computer can pay it a visit, thanks to ongoing climate research by the Nevada System ...
US environmentalist McKibben wins Sophie Prize
American environmentalist Bill McKibben has won the $100,000 Sophie Prize for being a mobilizing force in the fight against global warming. The award committee commended McKibben for "building a global, social movement, fighting to preserve a sustainable planet." McKibben, born in 1960, has written widely about the impact of global ...
Butterflies tell UT climatologist about climate
The University of Texas' star climatologist was planning a career in medical research until she met the white rats. "The cutest little white rats," she says with a smile, remembering the creatures she encountered on the first day of vertebrate physiology lab in her premed senior year at UT. She ...
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