global warming

Taxing financial trades has been touted as a panacea for all kinds of global ills, a cash source to fight poverty and global warming.

But the latest European attempt to introduce a worldwide standard 40 years after it was first conceived is facing stiff opposition from the U.S. and Britain.

Changes linked to global warming have contributed to a shortage of the beans used in specialty coffees.

With Freakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner revealed the good, bad, ugly and super freaky of the world around us.

Here they address the feasibility of some surprising proposals - three geoengineering solutions to global warming.

Oil billionaires David and Charles Koch have jumped on board an effort to suspend California's global warming law by making a million-dollar contribution this week.

Experts worry that as China’s 1.3 billion people clamor for more cars, appliances and creature comforts, international efforts to limit global warming could be doomed.

Global warming remains a secondary concern as China drafts a comprehensive energy law.

(Stanford University) The impact of global warming on food prices and hunger could be large over the next 20 years.

But even as some poor populations are hurt, others would be helped out of poverty, according to a new Stanford University study.

With the world losing the battle against global warming so far, experts are warning that humans need to follow nature's example: Adapt or die.

Recent corporate abandonment of the national Chamber of Commerce (e.g., Apple) over the lobbying group's position on global warming point up the growing fissures and threats to the power (even the concept) of collective business lobbying.

(Ecological Society of America) In a new study in the journal Ecological Monographs, ecologists estimate that Arctic lands and oceans are responsible for up to 25 percent of the global net sink of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Under current predictions of global warming, this Arctic sink could be diminished or reversed, potentially accelerating predicted rates of climate change.