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Coral reefs along Panama's Pacific coast completely collapsed for 2,500 years due to natural climate cycles, researchers reported in a study Thursday, adding that there's a lesson in the data for man-made climate change: ease up on greenhouse gasses and reefs will restore themselves.

Environmental groups and industry seem headed for another battle over regulation of greenhouse gases, as President Obama said he will look for ...

President Barack Obama says the federal government will reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions by 28 percent in the next decade - an ambitious goal that exceeds targets for the country as a whole.

At a critical time, the uproar over stolen e-mails suggesting scientists suppressed contrary views about climate change has emboldened skeptics - including congressional Republicans looking to scuttle President Barack Obama's push for mandatory reductions in greenhouse gases....

The vow comes a day after Obama promised a cut by the U.S., and leaders of both countries now say they'll attend a climate summit next month.

China pledged today to increase its efforts to limit "greenhouse" gases, and said that Premier Wen Jiabao would attend the Copenhagen climate summit next month.
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A key U.S. Senate environment committee approved a Democratic climate change bill on Thursday that would require industry to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases 20 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels.