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Nations set up global climate fund
Global talks on climate change on Saturday set up a new fund to manage billions of dollars in aid to poor nations.
UN talks take up ‘deep cuts’ on climate
More than 190 nations on Friday considered "deep cuts" in emissions to hold back climate change.
Guarded optimism as at climate talks
The world’s climate negotiators worked into early Friday morning amid guarded hopes of making progress.
UN chief warns world failing on climate
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned on Tuesday that the world was missing its last chance to control climate change.
China buoys climate talks with ‘binding’ target
China on Monday offered for the first time to submit its voluntary carbon emissions target to a binding United Nations resolution.
Exorcising the ghosts of Copenhagen
As ministers began flying in to climate talks in Cancún, the UN on Sunday moved to exorcise the "ghosts of Copenhagen".
China says some at climate talks want to kill Kyoto
China accused some developed nations on Friday at the UN climate talks of seeking to kill the Kyoto Protocol pact to curb global warming.
UN climate talks seek to define rich, poor duties
Negotiators at UN talks in Mexico on Tuesday struggled over proposals that would abolish a two-decade divide between rich and poor on scrutiny of gree
Pollution slowly killing world’s coral reefs
Dainty blue fish dart around coral shaped like moose antlers near the Mexican resort of Cancun, but sickly brown spots are appearing.
Laila Ali: ‘I’m crazy, but I hope my kids are sane’
She may be a second-generation boxer, but if Laila Ali eventually has children, the world’s most famous woman fighter will discourage them from taking up the sport. ”I’m not…
Wilma heads for Cuba, Florida
Six people were listed as killed and two as missing early on Sunday after Hurricane Wilma erased beaches and flooded luxury hotels up to the third floor in Mexico’s famous…
Hurricane Wilma hits Mexico
Sea water rushed into the Mexican resort city of Cancun early on Saturday as Hurricane Wilma whipped up a massive storm surge and unleashed heavy rain and driving winds over a…
Hurricane Wilma blows into Mexico
Hurricane Wilma battered deserted resorts along Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula with howling winds and torrential rain on Friday, toppling trees and power lines. The heart of the…
Mexico, US brace for lashing from Hurricane Wilma
Mexico braced on Thursday for a major hit from a monstrous Hurricane Wilma as the powerful storm threatened to grow even stronger before making landfall in this touristic…
Hurricane Wilma roars toward Mexico and US
A monstrous Hurricane Wilma barrelled toward Mexico and the storm-weary United States coast on Thursday, forcing tens of thousands to flee coastlines after it mushroomed into the…