Climate Change Events

2000 Apr 22 Earth Day 2000
The time is long overdue to begin constructing energy systems based on indigenous solar, wind, biofuels, and other sustainable sources. In rich countries and poor, Earth Day 2000 will agg...
2006 Feb 16 Study from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Determines Greenland's Glaciers Melting Twice as Fast as Previously Estimated
Satellite observations indicate that Greenland's glaciers have been dumping ice into the Atlantic Ocean at a rate that's doubled over the past five years, researchers reported here on Thu...
2006 May 24 An Inconvenient Truth Hits Theaters
An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 documentary film, directed by Davis Guggenheim, about former United States Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate citizens about global warming via a...
2009 Sep 22 President Obama Addresses Clinton Global Initiative
U.S. President Barack Obama is calling on leaders from all sorts of backgrounds to come together to tackle worldwide problems. Mr. Obama says it is time for a new spirit of partnership. ...
2009 Sep 23 Australia Experiences Worst Dust Storm in Seventy Years
The huge outback dust storm that swept across eastern Australia on Sept. 23 smothering Sydney in red dirt was a stark reminder that after 221 years of white settlement Australians still o...
2009 Oct 24 Activists Rally Around the World to Mark 'Magic' Climate Change Number
Activists held events around the world Saturday to mark the number they say the world needs to reach to prevent disastrous climate change: 350. The number represents 350 parts per mill...
2009 Nov 29 Scientists in the Netherlands Annouce Creation of First Lab-Grown Pork
SCIENTISTS have grown meat in the laboratory for the first time. Experts in Holland used cells from a live pig to replicate growth in a petri dish. The advent of so-called “in-vitro” o...
2009 Dec 7 Day One of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009
Reporting from Copenhagen - After a long day of dire warnings and impassioned pleas about the world's changing climate, hundreds of Danes and visitors from around the globe bundled themse...
2009 Dec 8 Day Two of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009
The second day of the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen for a 12-day conference kicked off on a high note with encouraging words from UNFCCC Executive S...
2009 Dec 9 Day Three of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009
The U.S. and China exchanged barbs Wednesday at the Copenhagen climate talks, underscoring the abiding suspicion between the world's two largest carbon polluters about the sincerity of th...
2009 Dec 10 Day Four of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009
While negotiations continue over the formation of an international emissions treaty in Copenhagen (COP15), the run up to the conference helped develop a rash of announcements regarding em...
2009 Dec 11 Day Five of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009
A first draft text presented to the Copenhagen Climate on Friday sets a minimum goal of halving world emissions by 2050. Earlier in the week, emerging nations said that such a target ...
2009 Dec 12 Day Six of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009
The protests didn’t prove to be too much of a distraction, however, as lead Chinese climate negotiator Su Wei said during a press briefing on Saturday (Day 6) that he wasn’t aware of them...
2009 Dec 13 Day Seven of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009
Held December 12 and 13 at Forum Copenhagen, the Bright Green Expo featured exhibits by more than 170 companies from 19 countries showing their cutting-edge products. "There is no need to...
2009 Dec 14 Day Eight of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009
Poor countries ended their temporary boycott of the UN climate change summit on Monday, receiving assurances that rich nations were not conspiring against them to reduce their commitments...
2009 Dec 15 Day Nine of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009
The gesture seemed lighthearted, but the message was not: Progress has been halting in international climate negotiations here. Yvo de Boer, the top United Nations climate official her...
2009 Dec 16 Day Ten of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009
Danish police today arrested 230 people at various points around Copenhagen, where world leaders and officials are meeting for UN climate talks. The news came as thousands of protester...
2009 Dec 17 Day Eleven of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Copenhagen on Thursday just as climate negotiations had “reached a critical junction” and talks were “difficult”, as she said at a press b...
2009 Dec 18 Day Twelve of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009
Wen delivered a speech titled "Build Consensus and Strengthen Cooperation to Advance the Historical Process of Combating Climate Change" at the opening session of the leaders' meeting of ...