
World Bank: Arab World hit hard by climate change
The Middle East and North Africa will be especially hard hit by climate change in the coming decades, the World Bank said in a report Wednesday, ...

At climate talks, UN chief rejects warming doubts
Pointing to the destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy and other weather disasters this year, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told an international ...

Fossil fuel subsidies in focus at climate talks
Hassan al-Kubaisi considers it a gift from above that drivers in oil- and gas-rich Qatar only have to pay $1 per gallon at the pump. "Thank God that ...

New Zealand: forget Kyoto, write new climate deal
Highlighting a rift between the rich countries and emerging economies like China, New Zealand's climate minister staunchly defended his government's ...

Climate activists march outside UN talks in Qatar
A few hundred people marched in a peaceful demonstration Saturday for "climate justice" in Doha, where negotiators from nearly 200 countries are ...

Some wish Islam would inform climate debate
At Friday prayers in Qatar's most popular mosque, the imam discussed the civil war in Syria, the unrest in Egypt and the U.N. endorsement of an ...

UN climate boss: No support for tough climate deal
The United Nations climate chief is urging people not to look solely to their governments to make tough decisions to slow global warming, and instead ...

Arctic sea ice larger than US melted this year
An area of Arctic sea ice bigger than the United States melted this year, according the U.N. weather agency, which said the dramatic decline ...

UN climate scientist: Sandy no coincidence
Though it's tricky to link a single weather event to climate change, Hurricane Sandy was "probably not a coincidence" but an example of the extreme ...

What's your QELRO? Fast guide to UN climate lingo
Every time U.N. negotiators meet for their annual climate talks, they come up with a new set of unintuitive acronyms, as if to make sure that people ...

UN to launch new round of talks on global warming
As nearly 200 countries meet in oil-and-gas-rich Qatar for annual talks starting Monday on slowing global warming, one of the main challenges will be ...

Will US role at climate talks change after storm?
During a year with a monster storm and scorching heat waves, Americans have experienced the kind of freakish weather that many scientists say will ...

Qatar set to host major climate talks
When the tiny desert nation of Qatar was chosen to host the latest round of United Nations climate change negotiations, environmentalists were stunned

UN report warns of widening climate gap
A U.N. report on rising greenhouse gas emissions reminded world governments Wednesday that their efforts to fight climate change are far from enough ...