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The view from America Barack Obama may be judged harshly by history if the US does not show its hand at the talks Elizabeth Kolbert Barack Obama has said that “our generation’s response to this challenge will be judged by...

President Barack Obama's plan to do a one-day drop-by at the U.N. climate-change summit in Copenhagen has the makings of a public-relations gaffe. He will arrive early in the conference and depart to pick up his Nobel Prize, but, as...

Agriculture produces about 16 per cent of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions and two-thirds of that is methane produced by farm animals. It is commonly thought methane produced by sheep is flatulence, but John Goopy from the New South Wales Department...

The Bureau of Meteorology insisted this morning it was not a dust storm such as the one seen in Sydney on September 23 , just "raised dust". "It's shrinking... conditions are improving,'' Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Peter Zmijewski said....

A strong 6.0-magnitude quake hit south of the southern Philippine island of Mindanao early Sunday, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage...The Hong Kong Observatory estimated the earthquake at 6.0 on the...

The NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) said the blaze of most concern was south of Newcastle in the Lake Macquarie area. Blazes are also burning in the Narrabri, Lithgow and Glen Innes areas and firefighters are continuing to work on...

Punishment for sin, a minister blames disasters on depravity & corruption of Indonesians. Minister for Communications & Information Tifatul Sembiring speaking in Padang, West Sumatra on 27th November to the victims of the recent earthquake in the province which killed...

SES volunteers have been kept busy today, responding to 87 requests for help as wild weather lashes the state. The majority of call-outs were for trees falling down and minor flooding. Damage has been widespread across Adelaide, the Riverland and...

Development Program hailed Saturday China's new energy efficiency target to fight global warming, saying it is ''important and ambitious'' and ''injects momentum'' into the lead-up to a U.N. climate change conference next month in Copenhagen. To access full stories on...