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UN Chief: 'We Have a Deal' on Climate Change

COPENHAGEN (Dec. 19) -- The U.N. climate conference narrowly escaped collapse Saturday as bitterly divided delegates agreed after all-night talks to recognize a political compromise that President Barack Obama brokered with China and other emerging powers. The Copenhagen Accord was bogged down for hours by protests from...

'Unprecedented' Climate Deal Is Disappointing

(Dec. 18) -- President Barack Obama late Friday heralded what he called an "unprecedented breakthrough" on curbing greenhouse gases at the Copenhagen summit on climate change, but the deal was more of a nonbinding consensus than the kind of concrete accord he described as urgent only hours earlier. The final details...

Why Jane Goodall Learned to Love Carbon Markets

(Dec. 17) -- Jane Goodall remembers the days when she could fly over the Tanzanian rain forests that sheltered her beloved chimpanzees and look out across a vast carpet of thick, mossy green stretching as far as she could see. By the early 1990s, however, the carpet had grown threadbare outside the tiny Gombe Stream...

Police Use Pepper Spray on Protesters in Copenhagen

COPENHAGEN (Dec. 16) - Danish police fired pepper spray and beat protesters with batons outside the U.N. climate conference on Wednesday, as disputes inside left major issues unresolved just two days before world leaders hope to sign a historic agreement to fight global warming. With the talks so clearly deadlocked,...

A Perfect Storm: When Politics and Weather Collide

(Dec. 11) -- It's as predictable as the lines of people stocking up on milk, bread and toilet paper when there's snow in the forecast. Whenever we run a weather story, an argument about global warming breaks out in the comments section of the article. It happened again this week as a snowstorm plowed across much of the...