Staff Report ISLAMABAD: Climate change and global warming are adversely affecting the world and recent heavy downpours that broke the 35-year-old records caused by global climate change, said Federal Minister for Environment Hameedullah Jan Afridi on Wednesday. He was addressing a two-day workshop on “environment and climate change”, organised by the Ministry of Environment in [...]

A group of major investors are calling on oil companies to disclose their plans to prevent and respond to spills caused by deep-water drilling operations. They said Thursday that they were prompted to act by the major financial losses that BP PLC will suffer from the spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In a letter [...]

By GREG BLUESTEIN and HARRY R. WEBER, Associated Press Writers Greg Bluestein And Harry R. Weber, Associated Press Writers – 1 hr 16 mins ago NEW ORLEANS – BP finished pumping fresh cement into its blown-out oil well Thursday as it aimed to seal for good the ruptured pipe that for months spewed crude into the Gulf of Mexico [...]

A solar tsunami generated by solar flares brought beautiful auroras to earth this week. Scientists and stargazers are keeping an eye on the sky as there is a chance the solar flare activity may bring new auroras tonight. Earlier this week, the sun emitted a C-class solar flare, or a large explosion in the suns’ [...]

Early Wednesday morning, people in the northern USA were able to see the effects of the solar flares storm and solar tsunami light up the sky; the northern lights will continue tonight in North America from Oregon to Maine and north to Canada. About every 11 years a solar flare storm kicks up from the [...]

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD, Associated Press Writer Michael R. Blood, Associated Press Writer – Sat Jan 2, 1:45 am ET LOS ANGELES – On a strip of California’s Mojave Desert, two dozen rare tortoises could stand in the way of a sprawling solar-energy complex in a case that highlights mounting tensions between wilderness conservation and the nation’s quest for [...]

Updated: Thu Dec. 24 2009 07:52:50 CTV.ca News Staff In the U.S. Senate’s first Christmas Eve vote in more than a century, Democrats have passed a health-care bill that could become a defining piece of Barack Obama’s presidency and extend coverage to millions of Americans. After months of debate and discussion, the bill passed by [...]

posted from Telegraph U.K.    The two-week summit limped to a conclusion late on Friday night after a row between the US and China overshadowed negotiations. It prompted warnings that not enough will be done to prevent potentially dangerous rises in global temperatures. Despite some hailing the Copenhagen Accord as “historic”, officials accepted that it [...]

Posted from New York Times: President Obama remains huddled with other world leaders in the second floor of the Bella Center where talks are being held. On the main floor, it is a scene of high drama and low expectations, with palpable confusion and frustration among negotiators. In the hours since Obama told the Copenhagen [...]