Countries on both sides of the Pacific have reason to be very afraid of climate change. Rising sea levels could swamp coastal farms, higher temperatures wipe out entire species and increasingly violent storms exact a widening human and financial toll.

Russia on Thursday signed an agreement to give 500,000 dollars to an Asia-Pacific fund to combat climate change and disasters.

African countries have agreed to negotiate as a bloc in talks on a new global warming treaty, a move meant to give the continent highly threatened by climate change a greater say in the future pact.

Africa seeks a common position with the European Union going into climate-change negotiations next year, Algeria's environment minister said Thursday following pan-African agreement.

With little new money to spend on renewable energy on climate change, P.E.I. Environment Minister George Webster said Wednesday the province intends to lead by example.

The Conservative government's staunchest ally in opposing the Kyoto Protocol now appears more willing to broker a new global climate- change pact. U. S. president-elect [...]

In a victory for environmentalists, Rep. Henry Waxman of Los Angeles ousted John Dingell, the longest-serving member of Congress, as chairman of the House committee that handles all energy, climate change and health care legislation. More green: Energy | Living

Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. governors signed a climate-change agreement with representatives of five countries in an attempt to put pressure on international negotiators who convene next month to draft a global treaty to help stem the flow of greenhouse gases.

Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer said today she would introduce President-elect Barack Obama 's 10-year $150 billion plan to curb climate change early in the new Congress next year.

Plants that range northward because of climate change may be better at defending themselves against local enemies than native plants. So concludes a team of scientists including a University of Florida geneticist.