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Developing countries don't trust wealthy nations' promises that they will help them meet the challenges of climate change, the UN's top climate official said Monday, adding that means any new global warming deal must have legal force ...

The leading sponsor of a U.S. Senate climate bill says action to combat global warming will raise energy prices, but also create ...

The government of the Maldives has held its first underwater cabinet meeting to attract international attention to the dangers of global warming.

Global warming will leave the Arctic Ocean ice-free during the summer within 20 years, raising sea levels and harming wildlife such as seals and polar bears, a leading British polar scientist said on Thursday.

Global warming has melted glaciers in the United States at a rapid and accelerating rate over the last half-century, increasing drought risks and contributing to rising sea levels, the federal government will report today based on data from a 50-year study of glaciers in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.

Four of President Barack Obama's top environmental and energy officials are urging the Senate to pass legislation to reduce emissions of the gases linked to global warming.

The heads of the Energy Department, Agriculture Department, Interior Department and Environmental Protection Agency told a Senate panel Tuesday they should pass a bill similar to one the House narrowly cleared late last month. That legislation would impose the first limits on greenhouse gases, reducing them by 80 percent by mid-century.

Global Humanitarian Forum, led by Annan, states that global warming already leading to mass deaths as result of disease, malnutrition.

Urban visionaries in London and Seoul, two of the world's busiest capital cities, foresee buses gliding through their streets with speed, ease and efficiency - without emitting the exhaust fumes that scientists say are contributing to global warming. Under Mayor Boris Johnson's vision, London's iconic red double-decker Routemaster buses would be back on the streets - but powered by electricity, not gasoline.

WashPost's Ezra Klein spotted one of the most interesting maps we've seen in a while ...

An area of an Antarctic ice shelf almost the size of New York City has broken into icebergs this month after the collapse of an ice bridge widely blamed on global warming, a scientist said Tuesday.