Topic: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

US to specify target for emissions cuts, at talks on global warming

A Senate bill's target for emission cuts is akin to level US is likely to offer in Copenhagen. Ahead of the global warming talks, other nations have been waiting to see US target.

Hacked global warming e-mails – what's new?

The story of the hacked global warming e-mails continues to unfold with new developments and lots of divergent opinions on what they mean, or don't mean.

Hacked climate emails: conspiracy or tempest in a teapot?

Copenhagen climate change talks stall as CO2 emissions rise

The Copenhagen summit on climate change is looking less likely to produce a binding CO2 emissions reduction agreement as a new study finds that global carbon dioxide emissions increased 29 percent in the past nine years.

Americans are getting better at water conservation

Americans are using less water than they did 50 years ago, thanks to conservation measures.

How to keep track of climate change

Complex data, distilled and delivered in real time, could shed light on a global issue.

Biggest news you've never heard: Earth isn't warming

Reducing greenhouse gases now may lower climate change risk

Greenland's Helheim glacier: a melting mystery

Scientists say the Greenland ice sheet is losing about 7 billion cubic feet of ice a year. Now, they are just finally beginning to uncover some reasons why its been shrinking.

Why are they calling it 'climate change' now?

Opinion: What are big companies not telling you now?

Risks to human rights, health, and the environment – from Sudan to suntan lotion – should be part of required disclosure.

Of farming, methane bubbles, and Antarctic glaciers

Ecosystems respond well to restoration

A new analysis contradicts the popular notion that ecosystems take centuries or even millenniums to recover.

One way to decide how nations reduce their carbon footprint

Will G-8 countries move faster on climate change?

In the post-Bush era, the major industrial nations meeting this week face pressure to set firm temperature and emission-reduction goals.

The next 'moon landing?' Norway plans deep-sea CO2 storage.

The oil-rich nation believes a half-mile thick rock formation could store the next 600 years, or so, of CO2 emissions from Europe. Some say the science is not so clear.

World's next big climate pact begins to take shape

This week, negotiators from 182 countries meet in Bonn, Germany to lay the groundwork for a post-Kyoto climate regime.

Arctic sea ice fights losing winter battle (again)

Scientists admit global warming is a hoax (April fools)

Today's top 5 April Fools gags

The Monitor's View: Time to prepare for climate change

Weather patterns will transform over decades but planning must begin now.

California’s climate change bill could top $100 billion

Rising sea levels and extreme storms could displace 480,000 people and damage businesses and airports, a new study says.

The Monitor's View: Obama's shaky trust in science

On stem cells, he's for the science. But not on climate change – unless the EPA acts.

Scientists: Sea-level rise worse than thought

Climate scientists meeting in Copenhagen Tuesday warned that sea levels could rise to almost three times that of the official worst-case estimates, threatening hundreds of millions of people.

NASA's CO2 satellite tanks, unlike CO2 levels themselves