Green Times

The head of the UN’s Nobel-winning panel of climate scientists on Friday said only seven years remained for stabilising emissions of global-warming gases at a level widely considered safe.Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), delivered the bleak warning at a gathering of European Union ministers where he pleaded with the […]

Global warming is hitting the Arctic harder and faster than scientists expected, causing unforeseen changes to the frigid region’s ice, wildlife, atmosphere and oceans, the conservation group WWF said.The most prominent differences observed over the last three years include a “massively accelerated” decline in summer sea ice and “much greater” shrinking of the Greenland Ice […]

The Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has agreed to put out its next major assessment report by 2014, the body’s chairman Rajendra Pachauri said Thursday. The IPCC’s previous report was largely responsible for last year’s award of the Peace Prize, which the organization shared with former US vice president Al Gore […]

Former Vice President Al Gore on Monday launched a three-year, multimillion dollar advocacy campaign calling for the U.S. to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.The Alliance for Climate Protection’s “we” campaign will combine advertising, online organizing and partnerships with grassroots groups to educate the public about global warming and urge solutions from elected officials.
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