Asian pollution from Asian power plants, cooking and heating could create summer hot spots in the central United States and southern Europe by mid-century, U.S. climate scientists reported on Thursday.

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Morality should be a spur for stronger action to fight climate change, which threatens food and water supplies for the poorest in Africa, a group of Christian activists said on Saturday during U.N. climate talks.
“We hear about climate change as a political issue, an environmental issue and an economic issue. We want to press the [...]

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A 160-nation U.N. climate conference in Ghana split on Friday over ways to pay poor countries to slow deforestation, blamed for producing up to 20 percent of the greenhouse gases caused by human activities.
Options suggested for raising billions of dollars in incentives include markets that would allow trading in the carbon dioxide locked up in [...]

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A U.S. Coast Guard cutter will embark on an Arctic voyage this week to determine the extent of the continental shelf north of Alaska and map the ocean floor, data that could be used for oil and natural gas exploration.
U.S. and University of New Hampshire scientists on the Coast Guard Cutter Healy will leave Barrow, [...]

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Thanks to blow-hard winds, the United States has just become the world’s largest generator of wind energy.
Germany previously held this distinction, though since the United States has about 26 times more land than Germany, the milestone isn’t a huge surprise. Nonetheless, we weren’t expected to reach this point until late 2009.

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Al Gore, the Nobel Prize-winning crusader on climate change, challenged the United States on Thursday to commit to producing all U.S. electricity from renewable sources like solar and wind power in 10 years.
“Our dangerous over-reliance on carbon-based fuels is at the core of all three of these challenges — the economic, environmental and national security [...]

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China’s carbon emissions are soaring past those of the US, new figures reveal, making it the dominant country in the global warming debate.
Chinese carbon dioxide pollution rose by 8% in 2007 and was responsible for two-thirds of the year’s total increase in global CO2 emissions, according to experts at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency.

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The world faces a daunting task to agree a new deal by the end of 2009 to slow climate change, the United Nations said on Friday as 170-country talks ended with recriminations about scant progress.
Developing nations at the June 2-13 meeting accused the rich of dragging their feet in setting new cuts of greenhouse gases [...]

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A U.N. climate conference urged governments on Thursday to come up with clearer ideas for a new treaty to slow global warming after criticism from delegates that progress was too slow.
The June 2-13 talks are the second this year in a series meant to end in Copenhagen in December 2009 with a new climate treaty. [...]

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A landmark plan to fight climate change was defeated today in the US Senate, likely postponing action on carbon emissions limits until after this autumn’s presidential election.
Neither Democrat Barack Obama nor Republican John McCain cast votes on the climate bill but indicated that they would have supported moving forward on it. McCain had indicated previously [...]

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