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Yahoo! News: Climate Change
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Climate Change
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How Arctic melting could benefit shippers, oil companies
(McClatchy Newspapers)
McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — With global warming melting the Arctic's eons-old ice at an alarming rate, shipping and oil companies are looking ahead at how to exploit the new open waters.
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On Climate Change, Environmental Groups Want Obama to Reverse Troubled Bush Legacy
(U.S. News & World Report)
U.S. News & World Report - When President Bush announced his decision to pull out of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming in March 2001, he ushered in an era of disappointment and frustration for climate change advocates.
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Correction: Africa climate change story
(AP)
AP - In a Nov. 20 story about African negotiations on global warming, The Associated Press erroneously reported that China refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol. China has signed and ratified the pact, but like other developing nations was not asked to reduce its emissions under the 1997 protocol.
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EU wants early foreign policy focus from Obama
(AP)
AP - The European Union's foreign policy chief said Friday he expects President-elect Barack Obama to move quickly to deal with top trans-Atlantic goals, including Middle East peace, negotiations with Iran and slowing global warming.
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New Senate to get major global warming bill
(AFP)
 AFP - The US Senate will take up two sweeping global warming bills in January, in the latest sign that Barack Obama's election could quickly reverse years of US footdragging on climate change.
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Waxman topples Dingell; House Dems go greener
(AP)
 AP - Democrats steered the House toward more aggressively tackling global warming and other environmental problems Thursday, toppling veteran Michigan Rep. John Dingell, a staunch supporter of Detroit automakers, from an important energy panel in favor of California liberal Rep. Henry Waxman.
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The year 2025: Oil, dollar out; Russia, Islam in
(AP)
 AP - Global warming could be a boon to Russia, a European country could be overrun by organized crime and the U.S. and its dollar could further decline in importance during the next two decades, says a U.S. intelligence report with predictions for the world in 2025.
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Waxman win elevates energy, climate change issues
(Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman, a California liberal, won the chairmanship of a key congressional energy committee on Thursday and promised to work closely with President-elect Barack Obama to promote alternative energy, ease global warming and expand healthcare.
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G8 should include China, India, others, panel says
(Reuters)
 Reuters - The Group of Eight major industrialized countries should be doubled to include Brazil, China and India and other nations to better tackle global challenges like climate change and economic stability, a blue chip panel said on Thursday.
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What climate change? Meltdown trumps fears at APEC
(AP)
AP - Countries on both sides of the Pacific have reason to be very afraid of climate change. Rising sea levels could swamp coastal farms, higher temperatures wipe out entire species and increasingly violent storms exact a widening human and financial toll.
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Russia gives to APEC fund for climate change, disasters
(AFP)
 AFP - Russia on Thursday signed an agreement to give 500,000 dollars to an Asia-Pacific fund to combat climate change and disasters.
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Intelligence study sees risks in rapid global power shift
(McClatchy Newspapers)
McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The risks of a nuclear weapons being used and wars being fought over dwindling resources will grow during the next 20 years as diminishing U.S. power, a shift of wealth from West to East, the rise of India and China and climate change reshape the world, a new U.S. intelligence study warned Thursday.
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Climate change may be causing disease outbreaks in Philippines
(AFP)
 AFP - Global warming may have contributed to a recent spate of outbreaks of deadly diseases in the Philippines, a senior minister said Thursday.
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Africans to stick together in climate change talks
(AP)
AP - African countries have agreed to negotiate as a bloc in talks on a new global warming treaty, a move meant to give the continent highly threatened by climate change a greater say in the future pact.
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Africa, Europe 'seeking to harmonise climate-change demands'
(AFP)
 AFP - Africa seeks a common position with the European Union going into climate-change negotiations next year, Algeria's environment minister said Thursday following pan-African agreement.
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