Arctic sea ice thaw may be accelerated by oil, shipping
OSLO (Reuters) - Local pollution in the Arctic from shipping and oil and gas industries, which have expanded in the region due to a thawing of sea ice caused by...
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Twenty more “Niles” needed to feed growing population-leaders
OSLO (Reuters) - The world needs to find the equivalent of the flow of 20 Nile rivers by 2025 to grow enough food to feed a rising population and help...
Twenty more “Niles” needed to feed growing population-leaders
OSLO (Reuters) - The world needs to find the equivalent of the flow of 20 Nile rivers by 2025 to grow enough food to feed a rising population and help...
Drilling to lakes under Antarctic may give clues to sea rise
OSLO (Reuters) - A British plan to drill into a sunless lake deep under Antarctica's ice in December could show the risks of quicker sea level rise caused by climate...
Wheat scientists seek to slow crop fungus in Africa, Asia
OSLO (Reuters) - Wheat experts are stepping up monitoring of a crop disease first found in Africa in 1999 to minimize the spread of a deadly fungus that is also...
Wheat scientists seek to slow crop fungus in Africa, Asia
OSLO (Reuters) - Wheat experts are stepping up monitoring of a crop disease first found in Africa in 1999 to minimize the spread of a deadly fungus that is also...
U.N. green climate fund, aiding poor, to pick HQ in 2012
OSLO (Reuters) - Leaders of a fledgling U.N. green fund agreed at a first meeting on Saturday to pick a headquarters this year as part of a plan to oversee...
Antarctic Peninsula started warming 600 years ago
OSLO (Reuters) - Temperatures in the Antarctic Peninsula started rising naturally 600 years ago, long before man-made climate changes further increased them, scientists said in a study on Wednesday that...
Antarctic Peninsula started warming 600 years ago
OSLO (Reuters) - Temperatures in the Antarctic Peninsula started rising naturally 600 years ago, long before man-made climate changes further increased them, scientists said in a study on Wednesday that...
First Chinese ship crosses Arctic Ocean amid record melt
REYKJAVIK/OSLO (Reuters) - An icebreaker has become the first ship from China to cross the Arctic Ocean, underscoring Beijing's growing interest in a remote region where a record thaw caused...