http://www.mail.com/subjects/94-climate.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/94-climate.html http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2091308-canada-pm-pipeline-plan-oil-to.html NEW YORK (AP) — A controversial oil pipeline to the U.S. Gulf Coast "absolutely needs to go ahead," Canada's prime minister said Thursday, and he warned that the oil will be transported through America one way or another. Stephen Harper addressed the Keystone XL project, a flashpoint in the debate over climate change, during a visit to New York City. The ... Thu, 16 May 2013 20:38:19 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2091308-canada-pm-pipeline-plan-oil-to.html 2013-05-16T20:38:19Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2080100-project-aims-to-track-big-city-carbon-footprints.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Every time Los Angeles exhales, odd-looking gadgets anchored in the mountains above the city trace the invisible puffs of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases that waft skyward. Halfway around the globe, similar contraptions atop the Eiffel Tower and elsewhere around Paris keep a pulse on emissions from smokestacks and aut... Mon, 13 May 2013 08:38:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2080100-project-aims-to-track-big-city-carbon-footprints.html 2013-05-13T08:38:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2079354-experts-co2-record-illustrates-scary-trend.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The old saying that "what goes up must come down" doesn't apply to carbon dioxide pollution in the air, which just hit an unnerving milestone. The chief greenhouse gas was measured Thursday at 400 parts per million in Hawaii, a monitoring site that sets the world's benchmark. It's a symbolic mark that scientists and environmentalists hav... Sun, 12 May 2013 00:25:11 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2079354-experts-co2-record-illustrates-scary-trend.html 2013-05-12T00:25:11Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2069034-encroaching-sea-threat-caribbean.html TELESCOPE, Grenada (AP) — The old coastal road in this fishing village at the eastern edge of Grenada sits under a couple of feet of murky saltwater, which regularly surges past a hastily-erected breakwater of truck tires and bundles of driftwood intended to hold back the Atlantic Ocean. For Desmond Augustin and other fishermen living along the shorelines... Tue, 07 May 2013 18:23:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2069034-encroaching-sea-threat-caribbean.html 2013-05-07T18:23:53Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2058312-un-2012-was-9th-hottest-year-1850.html GENEVA (AP) — The World Meteorological Organization says last year was the ninth-warmest since record-keeping began in 1850, despite the cooling effect of the weather pattern called La Nina. The U.N.'s weather agency says this marks the 27th year in a row the global average temperature — 58 degrees Fahrenheit (14.45 degrees Celsius) in 2012 — surpassed th... Thu, 02 May 2013 12:58:49 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2058312-un-2012-was-9th-hottest-year-1850.html 2013-05-02T12:58:49Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2045138-cuba-work-remains-6-months-sandy.html HAVANA (AP) — Many people in eastern Cuba are still living with family or in houses covered by flimsy makeshift rooftops six months after Hurricane Sandy pummeled the island's eastern provinces, residents and aid workers said Thursday. Many praised the government's efforts to rebuild Santiago and other cities but said much work remains to recover from the... Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:57:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2045138-cuba-work-remains-6-months-sandy.html 2013-04-25T23:57:42Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2039680-un-official-hopeful-2015-climate-talks.html DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Governments are more serious and the impact of climate change is more dramatic, improving chances of a groundbreaking global warming pact in 2015 in contrast with the failure of such an effort in 2009, the U.N. climate chief said Tuesday. The climate change talks in Copenhagen were a resounding failure, setting back the ... Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:58:17 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2039680-un-official-hopeful-2015-climate-talks.html 2013-04-23T19:58:17Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2027890-gorbachev-sees-global-failure-to-address-eco-risks.html GENEVA (AP) — Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Thursday painted a dim picture of the world's environmental progress, two decades after he founded the environmental group Green Cross International. Laying much of the blame on a lack of leadership and vision, he railed against governments for falling short on nuclear disarmament, waste, development... Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:48:23 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2027890-gorbachev-sees-global-failure-to-address-eco-risks.html 2013-04-18T14:48:23Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2022554-eu-cap-and-trade-system-suffers-blow.html BRUSSELS (AP) — Europe's fight against climate change was dealt a setback on Tuesday, when EU lawmakers voted against a proposal that would have made it more expensive for utilities and other businesses to burn fossil fuels. The European Commission wanted to make companies pay more for each ton of carbon dioxide they release into the atmosphere — activity... Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:10:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2022554-eu-cap-and-trade-system-suffers-blow.html 2013-04-16T19:10:02Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2015156-greenhouse-gases-high-temps-hotter-china.html WASHINGTON (AP) — China, the world's largest producer of carbon dioxide, is directly feeling the man-made heat of global warming, scientists conclude in the first study to link the burning of fossil fuels to one country's rise in its daily temperature spikes. China emits more of the greenhouse gas than the next two biggest carbon polluters — the U.S. and ... Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:48:14 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2015156-greenhouse-gases-high-temps-hotter-china.html 2013-04-12T14:48:14Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2014356-report-global-warming-big-us-drought.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Last year's huge drought was a freak of nature that wasn't caused by man-made global warming, a new federal science study finds. Scientists say the lack of moisture usually pushed up from the Gulf of Mexico was the main reason for the drought in the nation's midsection. Thursday's report by dozens of scientists from five different federa... Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:26:08 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2014356-report-global-warming-big-us-drought.html 2013-04-11T22:26:08Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2010906-agency-by-agency-guide-to-obamas-2014-budget.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has proposed a $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2014 that aims to slash the deficit by a net $600 billion over 10 years, raise taxes and trim popular benefit programs, including Social Security and Medicare. The White House claims deficit reductions of $1.8 trillion, but Obama's proposal would negate more than $1 trillion in automatic ... Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:41:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2010906-agency-by-agency-guide-to-obamas-2014-budget.html 2013-04-10T23:41:12Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2010698-feelin-queasy-air-turbulence-atlantic.html LONDON (AP) — Tourists, exchange students, masters of the financial universe and other business travelers: It's time to buckle up. More pollution is likely to mean bumpier flights for trans-Atlantic travelers, researchers say, predicting increased turbulence over the North Atlantic as carbon dioxide levels rise. University of East Anglia climate expert Ma... Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:13:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2010698-feelin-queasy-air-turbulence-atlantic.html 2013-04-10T17:13:07Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2008516-moniz-backs-natural-gas-revolution.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's choice to lead the Energy Department pledged to increase use of natural gas Tuesday as a way to combat climate change even as the nation seeks to boost domestic energy production. Ernest Moniz, a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said "a stunning increase" in production of domestic n... Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:23:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2008516-moniz-backs-natural-gas-revolution.html 2013-04-09T19:23:05Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2002390-antarctic-team-digs-deep-to-predict-climate-future.html WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Nancy Bertler and her team took a freezer to the coldest place on Earth, endured weeks of primitive living and risked spending the winter in Antarctic darkness, to go get ice — ice that records our climate's past and could point to its future. They drilled out hundreds of ice cores, each slightly longer and wider than a base... Sat, 06 Apr 2013 12:20:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2002390-antarctic-team-digs-deep-to-predict-climate-future.html 2013-04-06T12:20:10Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1989626-malibu-homeowners-struggle-with-beach-saving-plan.html MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — Malibu's celebrity haven of Broad Beach is struggling to survive as nature chews away at the shoreline and a $20 million effort to replace sand appears to be stuck in the mud. Homeowners have run up against opposition and complicated approval processes as they pursue a plan to dredge sand from elsewhere and dump it to restore the 1.1... Sun, 31 Mar 2013 19:06:46 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1989626-malibu-homeowners-struggle-with-beach-saving-plan.html 2013-03-31T19:06:46Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1986698-qa-europes-freezing-easter-global-warming.html STOCKHOLM (AP) — Is it Easter or Christmas? Many Europeans would be forgiven for being confused by winter's icy grip on lands that should be thawing in springtime temperatures by now. Britain is on track for the coldest March since 1962, according to national weather service the Met Office, which also says daily low temperatures in London are going to rem... Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:00:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1986698-qa-europes-freezing-easter-global-warming.html 2013-03-29T15:00:40Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1985342-americans-oppose-paying-storm-ravaged-beaches.html WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 4 out of 5 Americans want to prepare now for rising seas and stronger storms from climate change, a new national survey says. But most are unwilling to keep spending money to restore and protect stricken beaches. The poll by Stanford University released Thursday found that only 1 in 3 people favored the government spending mill... Thu, 28 Mar 2013 22:31:34 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1985342-americans-oppose-paying-storm-ravaged-beaches.html 2013-03-28T22:31:34Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1956528-obama-us-shift-cars-trucks-oil.html LEMONT, Ill. (AP) — Envisioning cars that can go "coast to coast without using a drop of oil," President Barack Obama on Friday urged Congress to authorize spending $2 billion over the next decade to expand research into electric cars and biofuels to wean automobiles off gasoline. Obama, expanding on an initiative he addressed in his State of the Union sp... Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:05:45 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1956528-obama-us-shift-cars-trucks-oil.html 2013-03-15T22:05:45Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1957882-global-warming-change-tornado-season-too.html OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — With the planet heating up, many scientists seem fairly certain some weather elements like hurricanes and droughts will worsen. But tornadoes have them stumped. These unpredictable, sometimes deadly storms plague the United States more than any other country. Here in tornado alley, Oklahoma City has been hit with at least 147 tornadoe... Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:07:01 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1957882-global-warming-change-tornado-season-too.html 2013-03-15T20:07:01Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1956812-global-warming-fueled-somali-drought.html NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Global warming may have contributed to low rain levels in Somalia in 2011 where tens of thousands died in a famine, research by British climate scientists suggests. Scientists with Britain's weather service studied weather patterns in East Africa in 2010 and 2011 and found that yearly precipitation known as the short rains failed in ... Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:37:17 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1956812-global-warming-fueled-somali-drought.html 2013-03-15T16:37:17Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1954082-zealand-suffering-biggest-drought-30-years.html CARTERTON, New Zealand (AP) — Dairy farmer John Rose has sent more than 100 of his cows to the slaughterhouse over recent weeks as a severe drought browned pastures in New Zealand's normally verdant North Island. He had to thin his herd so the remaining 550 cows have enough to eat, and he's supplementing their diet with ground palm kernel as the grass in ... Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:58:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1954082-zealand-suffering-biggest-drought-30-years.html 2013-03-15T00:58:28Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1941124-poland-aims-to-pave-way-2015-climate-deal.html WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Hoping to win over EU critics of Poland's recent stance on climate change, the environment minister said Friday that the coal-powered nation will make every effort to pave the way for a lasting deal in 2015 when it hosts a U.N. global warming conference in November. Last year, Poland vetoed the EU's road map for emissions reductions ... Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:13:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1941124-poland-aims-to-pave-way-2015-climate-deal.html 2013-03-08T17:13:42Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1933764-sinkhole-season-begun-florida.html SEFFNER, Fla. (AP) — As crews entombed a man who was swallowed by a sinkhole near Tampa, the earth opened up again just a few miles away. On Tuesday, in a neighboring county, officials investigated reports of a home cracking, perhaps due to another sinkhole. Across Florida this time of year, it's the start of what's unofficially considered the "sinkhole s... Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:16:25 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1933764-sinkhole-season-begun-florida.html 2013-03-05T21:16:25Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1933360-us-scientists-report-big-jump-heat-trapping-co2.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the air jumped dramatically in 2012, making it very unlikely that global warming can be limited to another 2 degrees as many global leaders have hoped, new federal figures show. Scientists say the rise in CO2 reflects the world's economy revving up and burning more fossil fuels, especially in... Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:46:46 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1933360-us-scientists-report-big-jump-heat-trapping-co2.html 2013-03-05T20:46:46Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1933524-ancient-arctic-camel-linked-to-modern-breed.html OTTAWA (AP) — Ancient, mummified camel bones dug from the tundra confirm that the animals now synonymous with the arid sands of Arabia actually developed in subfreezing forests in what is now Canada's High Arctic, a scientist said Tuesday. About 3.5 million years ago, Strathcona Fiord on Ellesmere Island's west-central coast would have looked more like a ... Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:41:18 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1933524-ancient-arctic-camel-linked-to-modern-breed.html 2013-03-05T19:41:18Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1929750-obama-nominates-3-to-cabinet-level-posts.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama signaled his willingness to tackle climate change with his pick of Gina McCarthy to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, one of three major appointments he announced Monday. A 25-year veteran of environmental policy and politics, McCarthy has worked for Republicans and Democrats, including Obama's presidential... Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:16:57 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1929750-obama-nominates-3-to-cabinet-level-posts.html 2013-03-04T20:16:57Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1926590-boehner-reason-to-block-keystone-xl-pipeline.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A new State Department report is the latest evidence that the long-delayed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada should be approved, supporters say. The draft report, issued Friday, finds there would be no significant environmental impact to most resources along the proposed route from western Canada to refineries in Texas. The report als... Sat, 02 Mar 2013 08:35:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1926590-boehner-reason-to-block-keystone-xl-pipeline.html 2013-03-02T08:35:52Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1925804-dept-major-objections-to-canada-pipeline.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department on Friday raised no major objections to the Keystone XL oil pipeline and said other options to get the oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries are worse for climate change. The latest environmental review stops short of recommending approval of the project, but the review gives the Obama administration political cov... Sat, 02 Mar 2013 03:53:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1925804-dept-major-objections-to-canada-pipeline.html 2013-03-02T03:53:24Z