REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE
The chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Rajendra Pachauri speaks during a press conference at UNESCO in Paris, February 2, 2007. The UN climate panel issued its strongest warning yet that human activities are heating the planet, adding pressure on governments to do more to combat accelerating global warming. (UPI Photo/Eco Clement)
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DURBAN, South Africa, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A U.N.-backed panel of climate scientists says it has confirmed Himalayan glaciers are melting, though more work is needed to ascertain the extent and impact.
NEW YORK, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- A report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change urges governments to come up with ways to cope with extreme weather expected during the next century.
KAMPALA, Uganda, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- The risk from extreme weather events is likely to increase if the world continues to get warmer, scientists at a climate conference in Uganda said.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- The credibility of the U.N. body designed to come up with the scientific evidence on climate change is in question.
ST. PETER, Minn., Oct. 9 (UPI) -- A looming global water shortage means world leaders should act now to assure peace in water-poor regions, a climate change expert told a Minnesota audience.
NASHVILLE, May 15 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, at an event in Nashville, has begun his campaign for passage of tough laws to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
LONDON, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Cutting back on red meat will curb global warming, a Nobel Prize-winning United Nations climate expert says.
OSLO, Norway, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Al Gore and the head of the U.N. climate-change panel Monday accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway.
OSLO, Norway, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Al Gore took the path less traveled -- by celebrities anyway -- to reach Norway to pick up his Nobel Prize, going by train rather than limousine.
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