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ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, May 19, 2010 (ENS) - The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for April and also for the four-month period from January-April based on data going back to 1880 when recordkeeping began, the National Oceanic and atmospheric Administrat...
Senate Democrats are scheduled to reintroduce the climate bill tomorrow in the wake of the BP oil spill. The new bill, created by Senator John Kerry, Joe Lieberman, and Lindsey Graham, is expected to come before a vote prior to mid-term elections, where Democrats are expected to take heavy losses. S...
WASHINGTON, DC, April 29, 2010 (ENS) - Heat waves, storms, sea levels, glaciers, and wildlife migrations are just a few of the environmental indicators that show measurable signs of climate change, finds a new report by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The report, "Climate Change Indicators...
The news of how Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano has brought Europe's travel industry to a standstill have reached across the globe. The volcanic eruption, though small, has generated an ash cloud that has closed airports across Europe. Environmentalists say that melting glaciers in polar regions...
WASHINGTON, DC, April 16, 2010 (ENS) - The world's combined global land and ocean surface temperature made last month the warmest March on record, according to federal government scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA.
Taken separately, average ocean temperatures...
Rifts from the Copenhagen Summit reappeared in Bonn, Germany as climate talks ground to a halt last weekend. The meeting failed to move forward on even procedural issues due to continued confrontations between the United States, the European Union, and BASIC — a coalition of developing nations...
BONN, Germany, April 12, 2010 (ENS) - Government climate negotiators Sunday concluded a three-day round of official talks in Bonn, the first since the Copenhagen summit ended in December with the weak Copenhagen Accord, a political agreement. Many countries and the United Nations had aimed for a leg...
PRINCETON, New Jersey, April 7, 2010 (ENS) - For 10 years Gallup polls have been asking Americans which is a higher priority - energy development or environmental protection. In survey results released Tuesday, for the first time respondents chose the development of energy supplies over protecting t...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, April 5, 2010 (ENS) - Rio de Janeiro and Osaka, Japan have roughly the same population - about 10.5 million people - but which city emits the most greenhouse gases? Now these cities and all metropolitan areas around the world have a common standard by which to measure their e...
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, April 2, 2010 (ENS) - Impacts from a decade of extreme storms on the coastline of the northern Gulf of Mexico have left many coastal areas vulnerable to future storm events, scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey warned today.
