Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:30:13 +0100 LONDON (Reuters) - High levels of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere mean the next ice age is unlikely to begin for at least 1,500 years, an article in the journal Nature Geoscience said on Monday. Concentrations of the main gases blamed for global warming reached record levels in 2010 and will linger in the atmosphere for decades even if the world stopped pumping out emissions today, according to the U.N.'s weather agency. An ice age is a period when there is a long-term reduction in the earth's surface and atmospheric temperature, which leads to the growth of ice sheets and glaciers. ... (Source: Reuters)
Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:30:13 +0100 Pledges under the UN from the world's major carbon polluters to tackle greenhouse-gas emissions are unlikely to be revised upward before 2020, a US climate negotiator said Monday. (Source: AFP)
Queen Mother Dr. Delois N. Blakely (C), a protester affiliated ...
Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:30:06 +0100 (Reuters) - Queen Mother Dr. Delois N. Blakely (C), a protester affiliated with Occupy Wall Street, speaks during a march outside the New York Stock Exchange November 25, 2011. REUTERS/Andrew Burton (UNITED STATES - Tags: CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS)
Delois N. Blakely, a protester affiliated with Occupy Wall Street, ...
Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:10:05 +0100 (Reuters) - Delois N. Blakely, a protester affiliated with Occupy Wall Street, speaks during a march outside the New York Stock Exchange November 25, 2011. REUTERS/Andrew Burton (UNITED STATES - Tags: CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS)
Major art museum opens in unlikely place: Arkansas
Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:20:18 +0100 As an heir to the Wal-Mart fortune, Alice Walton had the means to buy almost any piece of art on the market. So she scooped up one masterpiece after another: an iconic portrait of George Washington, romantic landscapes from the 19th century, a Norman Rockwell classic. (Source: AP)
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