Millions of years ago, the ice-covered Antarctica was much warmer and wetter than it is today, claimed a recent study. The climate along the edges of the frozen continent was even suitable to support substantial vegetation including stunted trees.
Kukil Bora
Jun 18, 2012
Five major corporations will join the emergency campaign to save the world's threatened forests by pledging to buy REDD multimillion dollar credits from projects protecting threatened forests around the world, the campaign announced Tuesday at the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development, commonly known as Rio+20.
Amrutha Gayathri
Jun 13, 2012
Sounding more climate change alarms, NOAA reports the U.S. just emerged from the warmest spring recorded.
Ashley Portero
Jun 08, 2012
Scientists describe finding an unprecedented phytoplankton bloom in the Arctic -- akin to stumbling across a rainforest in the middle of the Sahara.
Roxanne Palmer
Jun 08, 2012
Mexican President Felipe Calderon has signed into law climate change legislation that will bind the country to significant cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Only Great Britain has done the same
Ryan Villarreal
Jun 06, 2012
The 1,500-mile-long Reef, off the coast of Queensland, was placed on UNESCO?s World Heritage List in 1981.
Palash Ghosh
Jun 04, 2012
The situation is so dire, Maliki declared, that states could conceivably go to war over the precious substance.
Palash Ghosh
May 30, 2012
Higher temperatures, exacerbated by climate change, is expected to lead to the death of 150,000 Americans by the end of the century.
Ashley Portero
May 24, 2012
As soils, freshwater, oceans, forests and biodiversity are being rapidly degraded and climate change puts more pressure on the resources, it is time to rethink how we grow, share and consume our food.
Palash Ghosh
May 23, 2012
A Japanese rocket has successfully delivered a South Korean satellite, possibly designed for military purposes, into orbit. The launch occurs a little more than a month after North Korea's spectacular rocket failure in mid-April.
IBT Staff Reporter
May 21, 2012
Time to update his Facebook relationship status; Al Gore has a new girlfriend. Former vice president Gore, 64, is dating serious girlfriend Elizabeth Keadle. Gore separated from his wife Tipper in 2010 after over 40 years of marriage and four children. The announcement of a new girlfriend comes just two years after their split with no reports about a coming divorce.
Nadine DeNinno
May 18, 2012
A report released Tuesday by the United Nations Development Program argues that Africa must increase its agricultural productivity in order to keep up with promising rates of economic growth.
Jacey Fortin
May 15, 2012
Rio+20, the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development set for Rio de Janeiro next month, has been hailed as a major opportunity for world leaders to address climate change, but its importance threatens to be diminished as key players opt out.
Ryan Villarreal
May 11, 2012
Democrats are seeing shades of 2010 in the Indiana Senate race, contending that Republican Richard Mourdock's primary win over longtime incumbent senator Dick Lugar gives them an opening.
Jeremy White
May 09, 2012
The six-term Republican senator from Indiana issued a statement more than 1,000 words long after losing a primary battle to Richard Mourdock, a state treasurer.
Dan Rivoli
May 09, 2012
Dinosaur farts and burps could have had a significant effect on prehistoric climate change, according to a new study from a trio of British scientists.
Roxanne Palmer
May 07, 2012
The PlanetSolar catamaran became the first vehicle to circumnavigate the globe using solar energy on Friday when it pulled into Monaco after 19 months at sea.
Mark Johanson
May 07, 2012
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Saturday asked Bangladesh to exploit its strategic geo-location and said that its location between India and China, the two aggressively developing economies, gave it tremendous opportunity for development.
Sreeja VN
May 06, 2012
At the end of the high-level strategic talks between the U.S. and China, both countries have vowed to improve relations and to prevent human rights from becoming a major diplomatic stumbling block.
IBT Staff Reporter
May 04, 2012
The conservative think tank's billboard campaign features the Unabomber, Charles Manson and Fidel Castro.
Ashley Portero
May 04, 2012
Climate change could affect national security by spurring conflict over resources and producing more natural disasters, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told a prominent environmental group.
Jeremy White
May 04, 2012
Mitt Romney assailed the Obama administration for its handling of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng's attempted defection, building on his stance that Obama has not pressed China enough on human rights abuses.
Jeremy White
May 03, 2012
