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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Climate change scientists, deniers clash in W.Va.
A Republican congressman sought common ground in the climate change debate Thursday but found the same clash of science and ideology that paralyzes Washington had followed him to West Virginia, a state long built on fossil fuel production. For more than three hours, U.S. Rep. David McKinley quizzed a panel ...
IN DEFENSE OF GRAFTING
c.2013 New York Times News Service Grafted heirloom tomatoes are the hot tamale in the garden this year. And it makes sense when you think about it. I love my Brandywines for their incredible taste, but I have to admit that they don’t produce nearly as much as a workhorse ...
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 ...
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 ...
Oil leasing dispute heads to federal court
A dispute over greenhouse gases from oil and gas drilling will head to federal court in Montana as attorneys for the government and the industry face off against environmentalists who say too little is being done to reduce emissions that contribute to climate change. The legal quarrel was scheduled to ...
Study: Amphibians disappearing at alarming rate
A new study has determined for the first time just how quickly frogs and other amphibians are disappearing around the United States, and the news is not good. The U.S. Geological Survey said Thursday that populations of frogs, salamanders and toads have been vanishing from places where they live at ...
Business Highlights
___ Median CEO pay rises to $9.7 million in 2012 NEW YORK (AP) — CEO pay has been going in one direction for the past three years: up. The head of a typical large public company made $9.7 million in 2012, a 6.5 percent increase from a year earlier that ...
More tornadoes from global warming? Nobody knows
A deadly tornado hit suburban Oklahoma City on Monday. A quick look at some basic facts: Q. Is global warming to blame? A. You can't blame a single weather event on global warming. In any case, scientists just don't know whether there will be more or fewer twisters as global ...
Cars & Climate Change
As the Obama Administration set out tough new rules for fuel mileage standards Thursday, getting less attention was the release of the first regulations ever placed on greenhouse gas tailpipe emissions, an effort by the feds to slow the effects of climate change. "Establishing a harmonized approach to regulating light-duty ...
Climate Change End Run
The Obama Administration picked a Snow Day for the federal government in Washington, D.C. to announce the creation of a new climate change office, as well as a new "climate.gov" web site, though none of it seems to be in the federal budget. The announcement came from the Commerce Department, which proposed ...
Senate Climate Change
Senate hearings get underway in earnest today on climate change legislation, as Democrats try to find some momentum for what's known as the Cap and Trade bill. It won't be easy. Four Cabinet officials will be on hand today in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, as the chietains ...
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