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UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Thursday he would press Group of Eight (G8) leaders at their summit in Japan next month to tackle the world food crisis, climate change and the flagging fight against global poverty.On the eve of his departure on a two-week, three-nation Asian tour, the secretary general said the July 7-9 summit […]

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist spoke in Miami on Wednesday and called for the same dedication and innovation Americans used to get to the moon, to help find ways to save the earth.He was speaking at his second-annual summit on climate change. The two-day conference kicked off Wednesday morning at the Intercontinental Hotel in downtown Miami, […]

The world already knows that global warming is a serious problem and the time has come for politicians and experts to come together to map out a practical solution, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Friday.Urging the Group of Eight industrialized nations to stand behind his initiative, Blair said he gave Japanese Prime Minister […]

Britain will outline its plan on Thursday for meeting its renewable energy targets that environmental groups cautiously welcome but others say is unrealistic.Ministers are expected to call for 4,000 more wind turbines to be built onshore and 3,000 more to be erected at sea as a key part of a strategy to get 15 percent […]

The European Union wants to be a ‘catalyser’ in a global search for a deal on climate change, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said at a humanitarian forum on Wednesday.The bloc could put on the table some objectives to discuss and find consensus around, he explained.
“We think that it is important that the EU […]

Global warming is likely to have a series of destabilizing effects around the world, causing humanitarian crises as well as surges in ethnic violence and illegal immigration, according to an assessment released Wednesday by U.S. intelligence agencies.Rising temperatures could weaken already fragile regimes around the world and create a new set of national security challenges […]

A probe into levels of an important greenhouse gas above the tropical Atlantic has challenged assumptions about key sources of global warming, scientists said on Wednesday.Researchers found that natural chemicals in the atmosphere west of equatorial Africa destroyed 50 percent more ozone in that region than expected.
This process also reduced concentrations of methane, another powerful […]

Global warming could destabilize “struggling and poor” countries around the world, prompting mass migrations and creating breeding grounds for terrorists, the chairman of the National Intelligence Council told Congress on Wednesday. Climate change “will aggravate existing problems such as poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, ineffectual leadership and weak political institutions,” Thomas Fingar said. “All of […]

G8 rich nations and major emerging economies probably won’t achieve a big breakthrough in talks on global warming in Japan next month, Britain’s climate envoy said on Thursday, echoing other forecasts for modest progress at best.Climate change is a key topic for the July 8 Group of Eight leaders’ summit as well as an expanded […]

Obama kept the focus on energy at an event with green technology workers at Springs Preserve — a site outside Las Vegas dedicated to sustainability — arguing he offered a different vision for America’s energy future than his Republican rival.
The presumptive Democratic nominee called oil a “a 19th century fossil fuel that is dirty, dwindling, […]