The leaders of Britain and France gave their backing Friday to a global fund that would provide billions of dollars to poor countries to help them reduce the output of greenhouse gases linked to climate change.
Nov 27, 2009 | 6:25 pm
Drawing his .40-caliber pistol, Severiano Pontes dashes across the steaming, muddy jungle floor, a hunch telling him what he would find around a bend.
Nov 27, 2009 | 5:40 pm
Gert Ignatiussen returns to this fjord-front Inuit town with the spoils of his hunting trip. Six seals, all killed with a single shot to the head.
Nov 27, 2009 | 5:35 pm
Indonesia has rejected a push by the resort island of Bali for rare turtles to be legally slain in Hindu ceremonies, siding with conservationists of the protected reptiles against religious advocates, an official said Friday.
Nov 27, 2009 | 4:55 am
Americans' day-to-day lives won't change noticeably if President Barack Obama achieves his newly announced goal of slashing carbon dioxide pollution by one-sixth in the next decade, experts say.
Nov 27, 2009 | 1:30 am
China is set to launch its second lunar probe next October in preparation for an unmanned moon landing by the end of 2012, space program officials were quoted Friday as saying.
Nov 26, 2009 | 9:35 pm
Australian authorities plan to corral about 6,000 wild camels with helicopters and gun them down after they overran a small Outback town in search of water, trampling fences, smashing tanks and contaminating supplies.
Nov 26, 2009 | 5:30 am
There is no space for tourists wishing to fly to the International Space Station, a top Russian space official said Thursday.
Nov 26, 2009 | 4:45 am
President Barack Obama will commit the United States to substantial cuts in greenhouse gas pollution over the next decade _ despite resistance in Congress over higher costs _ when he travels to a major climate conference in Copenhagen next month.
Nov 26, 2009 | 3:55 am
Scientists say they believe toxins from a blue-green algae plaguing lakes and rivers around the West are harming an endangered fish in the Klamath Basin, adding another obstacle to restoring species that have forced irrigation shutoffs for farmers.
Nov 25, 2009 | 3:30 pm
Cutting global warming pollution would not only make the planet healthier, it would make people healthier too, new research suggests.
Nov 25, 2009 | 1:40 pm
Ships are on alert and maritime authorities are monitoring the movements of hundreds of menacing icebergs drifting toward New Zealand in the southern Pacific Ocean, officials said.
Nov 25, 2009 | 8:20 am
The world's largest atom smasher used its accelerator Tuesday to speed up proton beams for the first time as scientists moved ahead in efforts to learn more about the universe.
Nov 24, 2009 | 9:55 am
The readings at this 2-mile-high station show a troubling upward curve as the world counts down to crucial climate talks: Global warming gases are building in the atmosphere at record levels from emissions that match scientists' worst-case scenarios.
Nov 23, 2009 | 10:00 pm
Getting one of the roughly 11,500 permits granted each year to backpack overnight in the Grand Canyon has become so competitive and "unfair" that managers at the national park have decided to change the system.
Nov 23, 2009 | 6:10 am
Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated _ beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.
Nov 22, 2009 | 10:00 pm
The creatures living in the depths of the ocean are as weird and outlandish as the creations in a Dr. Seuss book: tentacled transparent sea cucumbers, primitive "dumbos" that flap ear-like fins, and tubeworms that feed on oil deposits.
Nov 22, 2009 | 1:50 pm
An auction house says it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" found in a family's guest lavatory in southern England.
Nov 22, 2009 | 8:30 am
Vladimir Gapor is a plumber by trade, but now he's a scavenger, prying bits of scrap steel from the ruins of his old factory and selling them for a pittance.
Nov 21, 2009 | 11:15 pm
Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online _ stoking debate over whether some scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change.
Nov 21, 2009 | 12:35 pm
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