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China: Rich nations must take climate lead

Nov. 7, 2008
China will try to persuade rich countries at a U.N.-sponsored climate change conference that opened Friday to transfer more technology to developing countries to help them battle global warming.
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Poznan ends with rich nations blasted

POZNAN, Poland, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Delegates were wrapping up a U.N. climate conference Friday by trying to find a compromise on a fund aimed at helping the poor cope with global warming.

Arctic change conference held in Canada

QUEBEC CITY, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Nearly 1,000 scientists from Canada and 15 other nations are in Quebec for the Arctic Change 2008 International Conference.

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BOGOR, Indonesia, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- An Indonesian forestry research group says large areas of Earth's forests could succumb to climate change, resulting in disaster for forest-dependent people.

Climate change effort opens in Poland

POZNAN, Poland, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The first meetings of an effort to craft a successor to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on global climate change got under way Monday in Poland, observers said.

Climate change helps some invasive species

VALENCIA, Spain, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- A British study suggests climate change has assisted some invasive species to advance in a much quicker fashion.

Ocean data predicts climate change

ITHACA, N.Y., Nov. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. ecologists say oceanographic data now being used to predict future climate change suggest dramatic changes in the Earth's climate and biosphere.

U.N.: Youth can be hip, save planet

UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Teenagers can stay on top of the latest trends while combating global climate change under a United Nations initiative, organizers said.

Grasshoppers offer climate change clues

LONDON, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- British researchers are establishing a public monitoring system to record sightings of 27 native grasshoppers and crickets.

Study IDs 12,700-year-old climate change

POTSDAM, Germany, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Germany and U.S. geoscientists have discovered a dramatic shift in the Earth's wind systems produced a sharp climate change about 12,700 years ago.

Climate change health problems foreseen

WASHINGTON, July 30 (UPI) -- Most U.S. health department directors believe their cities or counties will have serious public health problems because of climate change, researchers said.

WWF ranks G8 nations

WASHINGTON, July 7 (UPI) -- Canada and the United States are lagging behind the other Group of Eight nations in climate-change work, a new report says.

Report: Canada safest from climate change

LONDON, July 4 (UPI) -- A British consultancy group has concluded Canada is the safest place to survive global climate change, while the Comoros Islands is least equipped.

Report: Global warming will stress nations

WASHINGTON, June 25 (UPI) -- The largest threat global warming poses to U.S. security is linked to how it impacts countries less prepared to manage climate change, studies indicate.

Climate change could kill Calif. plants

BERKELEY, Calif., June 25 (UPI) -- A University of California-Berkeley study contends climate change could prove deadly to two-thirds of California's native plants.

NASA creates climate change info Web site

WASHINGTON, June 24 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says it's created a Web site devoted to educating the public about Earth's changing climate.
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch