Green alarm as EU ministers mull climate opt-outs

Oct. 10, 2008

LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - France, Germany and Austria called on Friday for an easing of EU climate ambitions to help industries facing an economic downturn, causing green groups to warn that the battle against climate change was in jeopardy.

Climate change putting forests at risk

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.

New South Wales gets solar subsidies

SYDNEY, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- The minister for environment and climate change in the Australian state of New South Wales announced a new solar feed-in tariff.

British government holds carbon auction

LONDON, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- The British government announced it held Europe's first carbon allowance auction.

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.

Study: Climate change at poles man-made

LONDON, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Temperature increases in Antarctica and the Arctic region are the result of man-made emissions of greenhouse gases, researchers in England have concluded.

DOE announces $7M climate research study

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Energy says it has selected four proposals to receive total funding of $7 million to conduct climate research field studies.

U.K. forms new energy department

LONDON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- A recent Oxfam report prompted the British government to form a new department.

Prince Charles has climate change concerns

LONDON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Britain's Prince Charles is voicing concerns about global warming and calling for a more revolutionary approach to solving the problem.

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.

Climate change, animal diversity studied

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have determined climate change 8 million years ago in what's now Pakistan forced most animal species in that area into extinction.

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.

NOAA gets computer time for forecasting

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Energy announced it will make available more than 10 million hours of computing time to study advanced climate change models.

Climate change may alter plant ranges

LEIPZIG, Germany, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- A new study suggests one in five of Germany's plant species could lose parts of its current range due to global warming.

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.