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U.S. Pesticide Stockpile Under Scrutiny at World Ozone Meeting in India
President George W. Bush's administration is seeking world permission to produce thousands of tons of a pesticide that an international treaty banned nearly two years ago, even though U.S. companies already have huge stockpiles of the chemical. >> Read the Full Article
Australia Rejects British Climate Report
Australia said on Tuesday it would not let down workers and accept a hard-hitting British report on climate change as critics branded the country an environmental "renegade". >> Read the Full Article
A Snapshot of Changes Global Warming Could Cause
Here's a look at some of the changes a British government report on global warming warned could occur: Melting glaciers will increase flood risks and reduce fresh water supplies, threatening one-sixth of the world's population. >> Read the Full Article
Report Warns About Global Warming Impact
Unchecked global warming will devastate the world economy on the scale of the world wars and the Great Depression, a major British report said Monday. >> Read the Full Article
Climate Negotiators Eye 2008 Elections
Delegates flying to Kenya next week for a global conference on climate are watching the turn of U.S. election seasons as much as the rise in temperatures in their effort to cool planetary warming. >> Read the Full Article
Plane Sensors Offering Better Forecasts
Just after dawn in an open field, Calvin Meadows tugs a cotton tether to send aloft a 6-foot helium balloon that will carry weather instruments more than 19 miles into the sky. About the same time, technicians and scientists across the world do the same. >> Read the Full Article
U.N. Says Global Warming Gases on Rise Again
The industrialized world's emissions of greenhouse gases are growing again, despite efforts under the Kyoto Protocol to cap them and stave off global warming, the United Nations reported Monday. >> Read the Full Article
Schwarzenegger Prods Bush on Warming
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who recently signed a sweeping law to cut greenhouse gas emissions in California, complained in a letter to President Bush that there is no coherent federal policy to stop global warming. >> Read the Full Article
Arctic Haze Pollution Thickens Despite Russia Cuts
Haze polluting the Arctic has thickened in the past decade despite lower emissions by Russian factories, perhaps because of more forest fires or pollution from Asia, an international report said on Thursday. >> Read the Full Article
Climate Talks Held Despite Kyoto Rift
The United States and the European Union met on Tuesday in Helsinki to seek ways to curb greenhouse gases and promote clean energies, setting aside years of disputes over the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol which caps emissions. >> Read the Full Article