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Jul 22, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator John Kerry said on Thursday at a town hall meeting that chances to pass a climate bill right now are "very tough."
Jul 22, 2010
GENEVA (Reuters) - Developing economies can jumpstart low-carbon economic growth through "clean" investment promotion policies, despite slow progress in international climate negotiations, a United Nations agency said.
Jul 22, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats struggled to salvage climate-change legislation and the leading proponent of the effort said on Thursday it could be tough to get a bill that caps carbon emissions passed.
Jul 22, 2010
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government said on Thursday it would cut funding to green advisory bodies, a move sharply criticized by green campaigners and members of parliament.
Jul 22, 2010
MIAMI (Reuters) - A tropical storm formed near the Bahamas on Thursday on a track that could take it over BP's oil spill site in the Gulf of Mexico.
Jul 21, 2010
HOUSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - BP Plc said on Tuesday it reached a $7 billion deal with Apache Corp, a large part of its planned sale of $10 billion in assets to pay for the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
Jul 21, 2010
LONDON (Reuters) - The Kyoto Protocol's clean development mechanism (CDM) may end from 2013 unless the world can agree and put into force a new round of carbon emissions targets before then, a U.N. paper has said.
Jul 21, 2010
JAKARTA (Reuters) - A quarter of villagers living near orangutans in Indonesia's Kalimantan province are not aware the rare primates are protected and say orangutans have been killed in their village, said a new survey released on Wednesday.
Jul 21, 2010
BEIJING (Reuters) - Southern China is bracing for its second powerful storm in less than a week, as the death toll from floods and landslides caused by torrential rain climbed beyond 700 with hundreds of others reported missing.
Jul 21, 2010
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's coasts have become cleaner but sea levels and temperatures are rising due to climate change, a government report said on Wednesday.
Jul 20, 2010
HOUSTON/LONDON (Reuters) - BP Plc can keep its blown-out Gulf of Mexico well capped for at least another day, after it was determined that nearby seepage was not related to the leak, a U.S. official said on Monday.
Jul 20, 2010
BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Tuesday denied a report that it had surpassed the United States last year to become the world's largest energy user.
Jul 20, 2010
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has recruited a flotilla of 500 fishing boats to help clean up an oil slick that shut one of its biggest ports, Dalian, disrupting refinery operations and diverting cargoes elsewhere, but officials said the port would not return to normal until the end of the week.
Jul 20, 2010
BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Tuesday denied a report that it had surpassed the United States last year to become the world's largest energy user.
Jul 20, 2010
BEIJING (Reuters) - Toxic waste from a copper mine spill has been washed downriver into Guangdong province, China's main export hub, as scrutiny intensifies of the embattled mining company's links to local government officials.
Jul 20, 2010
DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh has proposed the setting up of an environment court with powers to jail polluters for up to five years, officials said Tuesday.
Jul 20, 2010
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Final written arguments in Australia's complaint against Japan over whaling in the Southern Ocean will be due in March 2012, the world court said on Tuesday, ensuring that the case will take years to resolve.
Jul 20, 2010
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The intense heat and humidity that blanketed central Kansas since late last week have killed more than 2,000 cattle and one state official called the heat-related losses the worst in his 17 years on the job.
Jul 20, 2010
LONDON (Reuters) - Some 7,500 British firms are expected to miss a September 30 deadline to register for the UK's new energy efficiency scheme, meaning they face fines of at least 5,000 pounds each ($7,644), an environmental consultancy said on Tuesday.
Jul 20, 2010
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Oil sands producers must do more to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the U.S. ambassador to Canada said on Monday, as the two countries move to harmonize rules on carbon dioxide cuts.
Jul 20, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and dozens of other countries have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars toward clean energy initiatives to help battle climate change, U.S. Energy Secretary Stephen Chu said on Tuesday.
Jul 20, 2010
VENICE, Louisiana (Reuters) - The cattle in these parts don't seem to mind the helicopters hauling oil booms overhead, nor the response boats hurrying past their banks.
Jul 20, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The National Mining Association, which represents most major U.S. coal mining companies, on Tuesday filed suit against the Environmental Protection Agency, saying it was unlawfully obstructing permits for coal mining operations in Central Appalachia.
Jul 20, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With time running out on the congressional calendar, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Tuesday he was still grappling for consensus among Democrats to forge a new climate and energy bill.
Jul 20, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Private weather forecaster WSI Corp cut its forecast for named storms in the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season on Tuesday, but still sees an active season with water temperatures and wind conditions conducive to violent storms.
Jul 19, 2010
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Engineers monitoring BP Plc's damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico detected seepage on the ocean floor that could mean problems with the cap that has stopped oil from gushing into the water, the government's top oil spill official said on Sunday.
Jul 19, 2010
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's massive Three Gorges dam is facing a major test of the flood control function that was one of the key justifications for its construction, as torrential rains swell the rivers that feed it, state media said Monday.
Jul 19, 2010
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities are battling to contain a 50 sq km oil slick after two crude oil pipelines exploded in the northeastern port of Dalian, state media reported on Monday.
Jul 19, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. authorities probing BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are looking into why workers missed signs of an impending explosion and have drawn up a list of more than 20 anomalies in the crew's response to them, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
Jul 19, 2010
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain needs to invest more in low-carbon technologies to reach its goal of cutting harmful greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050, a climate advisory body to the government said Monday.
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