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Study: Distant rural areas may feel cities' heat
Heat rising up from cities such as New York, Paris and Tokyo might be remotely warming up winters far away in some rural parts of Alaska, Canada, and ...
Buoyed by Obama, leaders press for climate action
Hurricanes, floods, droughts and a newly climate-conscious Barack Obama are helping boost efforts around the world to fight climate change.
Obama climate pledge faces test on oil pipeline
Environmental groups say President Barack Obama's warning about climate change will soon be tested as he decides whether to approve the Keystone XL ...
Strong quake kills girl, ruins homes in Indonesia
A strong, shallow earthquake rocked parts of western Indonesia early Tuesday, killing a 9-year-old girl, panicking residents and ruining homes.
World warm last year, but not like record US heat
While the U.S. was smashing heat marks last year, the world as a whole barely slipped into the top 10 hottest years on record, two American science ...
Report says warming is changing US daily life
Global warming is already changing America from sea to rising sea and is affecting how Americans live, a massive new federally commissioned report ...
US seared during hottest year on record by far
America set an off-the-charts heat record in 2012. A brutal combination of a widespread drought and a mostly absent winter pushed the average annual U
Annual bird counts give scientists climate clues
Armed with flashlights, recordings of bird calls, a small notebook and a stash of candy bars, scientist Rich Kostecke embarked on an annual 24-hour ...
Correction: Peru Quake Unreadiness Story
In a story that moved Dec. 9 and 23 about earthquake readiness in Lima, Peru, The Associated Press incorrectly listed the year and the magnitude of ...
Peru's capital highly vulnerable to major quake
The earthquake all but flattened colonial Lima, the shaking so violent that people tossed to the ground couldn't get back up. Minutes later, a 50-foot ...
2012 another record-setter, fits climate forecasts
As 2012 began, winter in the U.S. went AWOL. Spring and summer arrived early with wildfires, blistering heat and drought. And fall hit the eastern ...
AP-GfK Poll: Science doubters say world is warming
A growing majority of Americans think global warming is occurring, that it will become a serious problem and that the U.S. government should do ...
Chilean town shaken by reminders of deadly quake
One jolt hit in the middle of the night. Another caught fishermen at a nearby beach. Then the ground shook at supper. And then again, and again: More ...
UN conference adopts extension of Kyoto accord
Seeking to control global warming, nearly 200 countries agreed Saturday to extend the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty that limits the greenhouse gas output ...
UN climate talks go into overtime in Qatar
The world's poorest countries, inundated by rising seas and worsening disasters, made a last ditch plea for financial help early Saturday as ...
Tensions mount as UN climate talks near end
U.N. climate talks are heading into the final stretch with a host of issues unresolved, including a standoff over how much money financially stressed ...
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 ...
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 ...
Carbon pollution up to 2 million pounds a second
The amount of heat-trapping pollution the world spewed rose again last year by 3 percent. So scientists say it's now unlikely that global warming can ...
Upon further review, giant sequoia tops a neighbor
Deep in the Sierra Nevada, the famous General Grant giant sequoia tree is suffering its loss of stature in silence. What once was the world's No.
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 ...
Ice sheets melting at poles faster than before
Fueled by global warming, polar ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are now melting three times faster than they did in the 1990s, a new scientific ...