By Gerard Wynn LONDON (Reuters) - Threats of retaliation by China and India against a European Union plan to charge airlines for their carbon emissions is misplaced, given their weak legal case and a drift towards more such unilateral climate action.
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By Gerard Wynn LONDON (Reuters) - Threats of retaliation by China and India against a European Union plan to charge airlines for their carbon emissions is misplaced, given their weak legal case and a drift towards more such unilateral climate action. Countries in Durban at the end of last year topped off years of lumbering U.N
Read More »Witness: Arctic Ice Breaks Up as Polar Bears Stalk Ship
By Gerard Wynn 500 MILES FROM THE NORTH POLE (Reuters) - Stepping onto an Arctic ice floe on Monday, an unusually mild, easterly breeze blew at the end of the annual summer melt. The footprints of two polar bears from the night before were disintegrating in a dusting of snow.
Read More »Experts Drill Arctic Ice to Fathom Speed of Melt
By Gerard Wynn and Stuart McDill 500 MILES OFF THE NORTH POLE (Reuters) - As polar bears stalked their ship, scientists drilled into the Arctic sea ice this week to try and figure out why it's disappearing so fast. [More]
Read More »Total Arctic Sea Ice at Record Low in 2010: Study
By Gerard Wynn 500 MILES FROM THE NORTH POLE (Reuters) - The minimum summertime volume of Arctic sea ice fell to a record low last year, researchers said in a study to be published shortly, suggesting that thinning of the ice had outweighed a recovery in area. [More]
Read More »Asia Pollution Blamed for Halt in Warming
By Gerard Wynn LONDON (Reuters) - Smoke belching from Asia's rapidly growing economies is largely responsible for a halt in global warming in the decade after 1998 because of sulfur's cooling effect, even though greenhouse gas emissions soared, a U.S. study said on Monday.
Read More »Island States Hint at Climate Talks Compromise
By Gerard Wynn BONN, Germany (Reuters) - Small island states, at risk from rising seas due to climate change, hinted on Tuesday at a compromise in order to kick-start U.N. talks on reaching a binding deal to curb global warming.
Read More »Food Demand Eating into Tropical Forests: Report
By Gerard Wynn BONN, Germany (Reuters) - Slowing deforestation and greater awareness of the value of standing trees may come too late to save the world's biggest rainforests, according to a global assessment of tropical forests published Tuesday.
Read More »Scientists want climate change early-warning system
By Gerard Wynn LONDON (Reuters) - A better monitoring network for greenhouses gases is needed to warn of significant changes and to keep countries that have agreed to cut their emissions honest, scientists said in papers published Monday. [More]
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