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A coral reef is pictured off Bunaken Island marine protected ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:10:49 GMT

(AFP/File) - A coral reef is pictured off Bunaken Island marine protected national park in Manado in May 2009. President Barack Obama will head to next month's Copenhagen climate summit armed with the first concrete US offer to cut carbon emissions, officials said Wednesday, reviving hopes the closely watched meeting will succeed.(AFP/File/Romeo Gacad)

VIDEO: The effects of climate change on the Himalayan region. ...

(AFPTV/Greenpeace) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:10:49 GMT

(AFPTV/Greenpeace) - VIDEO: The effects of climate change on the Himalayan region. Originally filed: 280809. Duration: 01:26.(AFPTV/Greenpeace)

Chart showing carbon dioxide emissions per capita by the Group ...

(AFP/Graphic) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:10:49 GMT

(AFP/Graphic) - Chart showing carbon dioxide emissions per capita by the Group of Eight nations and the Group of Five emerging nations. President Barack Obama will head to next month's Copenhagen climate summit armed with the first concrete US offer to cut carbon emissions, officials said Wednesday, reviving hopes the closely watched meeting will succeed.(AFP/Graphic)

The sun sets near wind turbines in Burgenland near the Austrian-Slovakian ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:10:49 GMT

(AFP/File) - The sun sets near wind turbines in Burgenland near the Austrian-Slovakian border late afternoon in May 2009. President Barack Obama will head to next month's Copenhagen climate summit armed with the first concrete US offer to cut carbon emissions, officials said Wednesday, reviving hopes the closely watched meeting will succeed.(AFP/File/Joe Klamar)

This 2003 NASA photo shows Pando Province, Bolivia, and adjacent ...

(AFP/NASA/File) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:02:01 GMT

(AFP/NASA/File) - This 2003 NASA photo shows Pando Province, Bolivia, and adjacent parts of Brazil and Peru covering part of the Amazon Basin. The presidents of eight nations straddling the Amazon basin plus France will meet Thursday in the heart of the Amazon rainforest to lay out a save-the-jungle proposal for next month's climate change summit in Copenhagen.(AFP/NASA/File)

Called by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (pictured) of ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:02:01 GMT

(AFP/File) - Called by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (pictured) of Brazil, the biggest stock holder in the Amazon basin, the one-day meeting of the eight nations straddling the Amazon basin includes President Nicolas Sarkozy since France's overseas department of French Guyana extends into the Amazon basin.(AFP/File/Evaristo Sa)

Crown Princess Mette-Marit applauds Canadian philosopher Ian ...

(Canadian Press) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:42:03 GMT

(Canadian Press) - Crown Princess Mette-Marit applauds Canadian philosopher Ian Hacking, right, after he was awarded the Holberg International Memorial Prize 2009 in Bergen, Norway Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009. The University of Bergen awards committee says the 73-year-old Vancouver native won the prize for his research on the impact of history and culture on the formation of new ideas. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Scanpix, Marit Hommedal

Micro seaweeds in a basin at the Seche environmental plant in ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:03:50 GMT

(AFP/File) - Micro seaweeds in a basin at the Seche environmental plant in Le Vigeant, southern France, in May 2009. President Barack Obama will head to next month's Copenhagen climate summit armed with the first concrete US offer to cut carbon emissions, officials said Wednesday, reviving hopes the closely watched meeting will succeed.(AFP/File/Alain Jocard)

A fisherman sails on the Ice Fjord of Ilulissat, Greenland, ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:03:50 GMT

(AFP/File) - A fisherman sails on the Ice Fjord of Ilulissat, Greenland, in July 2009. President Barack Obama will head to next month's Copenhagen climate summit armed with the first concrete US offer to cut carbon emissions, officials said Wednesday, reviving hopes the closely watched meeting will succeed.(AFP/File/Slim Allagui)

A picture shows the drying shores of the Dead Sea, south of ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:28:28 GMT

(AFP/File) - A picture shows the drying shores of the Dead Sea, south of the Jordanian capital Amman, on November 9. The Dead Sea may soon shrink to a lifeless pond as Middle East political strife blocks vital measures needed to halt the decay of the world's lowest and saltiest body of water, experts say.(AFP/File/Khalil Mazraawi)

VIDEO: The Dead Sea may soon shrink to a lifeless pond as Middle ...

(AFPTV) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:28:28 GMT

(AFPTV) - VIDEO: The Dead Sea may soon shrink to a lifeless pond as Middle East political strife blocks vital measures needed to halt the decay of the world's lowest and saltiest body of water. Duration: 01:54(AFPTV)

A picture shows a dry patch of land near the Dead Sea, south ...

(AFP) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:28:28 GMT

(AFP) - A picture shows a dry patch of land near the Dead Sea, south of the Jordanian capital Amman, on November 9. The shoreline of the Dead Sea has receded by more than a kilometre (around a mile) in some places and the world-famous lake, a key tourism destination renowned for the beneficial effect of its minerals, could dry out by 2050, according to some calculations.(AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)

A Jordanian man points towards a dried water pit near the Dead ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:28:28 GMT

(AFP/File) - A Jordanian man points towards a dried water pit near the Dead Sea, south of the Jordanian capital Amman, on November 9. The surface level of the Dead Sea is plunging by a metre (three feet) a year and nothing has yet been done to reverse the decline because of a lack of political cooperation as a result of the Arab-Israeli conflict.(AFP/File/Khalil Mazraawi)

Jordanians stand in a semi-deserted field near the Dead Sea ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:28:28 GMT

(AFP/File) - Jordanians stand in a semi-deserted field near the Dead Sea south of Amman on November 9. The Dead Sea may soon shrink to a lifeless pond as Middle East political strife blocks vital measures needed to halt the decay of the world's lowest and saltiest body of water, experts say.(AFP/File/Khalil Mazraawi)

A truck (R) passes a stand of betel nut trees in the central ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:10:03 GMT

(AFP/File) - A truck (R) passes a stand of betel nut trees in the central Taiwanese area of Nantou in September 2009. Farmers in the upland regions of Taiwan have for decades been cutting down indigenous trees to grow crops such as apples, tea and betel nuts. The problem is that the roots of these plants are shallow and unable to protect the soil from the erosion caused by downpours.(AFP/File/Sam Yeh)

An aerial view of a village ravaged by floods and mudslides ...

(AFP/POOL/File) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:10:03 GMT

(AFP/POOL/File) - An aerial view of a village ravaged by floods and mudslides sparked by Typhoon Morakot in Liukuei, in the southern Taiwanese Kaohsiung county in August 2009. The death and destruction wreaked on Taiwan by Typhoon Morakot was a disaster waiting to happen, aggravated by decades of unrestrained environmental abuse, critics say.(AFP/POOL/File/Su Sheng-Pin)

A partially burried house after a landslide triggered by Typhoon ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:10:03 GMT

(AFP/File) - A partially burried house after a landslide triggered by Typhoon Morakot in Liukuei, in the southern Taiwanese Kaohsiung county in August 2009. Sixty years of intense use of the small island's natural resources left it increasingly fragile and vulnerable to a major blow such as that dealt by Morakot, which left more than 700 people dead or missing in August.(AFP/File/Sam Yeh)

A pictured taken on November 12 and released by Greenpeace on ...

(AFP/Greenpeace) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:09:00 GMT

(AFP/Greenpeace) - A pictured taken on November 12 and released by Greenpeace on November 25, shows Indonesian police transporting a group of arrested Greenpeace activists on a boat in Riau after police rounded up the activists who set up a protest camp in their campaign to stop a local pulp and paper company's operation in clearing forest, weeks before the UN Copenhagen Climate Summit.(AFP/Greenpeace/Ardiles Rante)

A fish caught through a fisherman's hook and line method ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:08:22 GMT

(AFP/File) - A fish caught through a fisherman's hook and line method is pulled up in 2008. A landmark treaty aimed at denying port access to foreign boats engaged in illegal fishing has been signed by the United States and a host of other nations, as well as the EU, the UN said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Romeo Gacad)

A Siberian tiger sits in the snow at Whipsnade Zoo, north of ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:02:48 GMT

(AFP/File) - A Siberian tiger sits in the snow at Whipsnade Zoo, north of London, in February. The population of Siberian tigers is dropping sharply, with researchers blaming the slump on poachers who are killing the feline for its pelt and bones, a report has shown.(AFP/File/Max Nash)

Smoke billows from a chimney on a hazy day in Beijing. US President ...

(AFP) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:38:42 GMT

(AFP) - Smoke billows from a chimney on a hazy day in Beijing. US President Barack Obama has confirmed he will attend a major climate summit next month, providing a shot in the arm for the talks after China said it is unlikely to cut gas emissions.(AFP/Liu Jin)

US President Barack Obama (right) and his Indian counterpart ...

(AFP) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:38:42 GMT

(AFP) - US President Barack Obama (right) and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh attend the first official State Dinner of Obama's administration at the White House in Washington on November 24. In a joint statement, Singh and Obama spoke of their hopes for a "comprehensive" deal at Copenhagen climate talks.(AFP/Nicholas Kamm)

Smoke billows from the chimney of a paper factory in Pietarsaari, ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:28:47 GMT

(AFP/File) - Smoke billows from the chimney of a paper factory in Pietarsaari, Finland. President Barack Obama will attend the climate summit in Copenhagen next month and offer to cut US greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020.(AFP/File/Olivier Morin)

A windfarm near Palm Springs, California.(AFP/Gabriel Bouys) ...

(AFP) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:28:47 GMT

(AFP) - A windfarm near Palm Springs, California.(AFP/Gabriel Bouys)

President Barack Obama will attend the climate summit in Copenhagen ...

(AFP) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:27:37 GMT

(AFP) - President Barack Obama will attend the climate summit in Copenhagen next month and offer to cut US greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020.(AFP/Saul Loeb)

Greenpeace activists wearing masks resembling US president Barack ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:27:37 GMT

(AFP/File) - Greenpeace activists wearing masks resembling US president Barack Obama (right) and Japanese premier Yukio Hatoyama stage a demonstration in Tokyo on November 13. Obama will attend the climate summit in Copenhagen next month and offer to cut US greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)

A young boy carries water taken from an unprotected well which ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:51:57 GMT

(AFP/File) - A young boy carries water taken from an unprotected well which has been a major source of cholera in Harare in 2008. Climate change will imperil health through malaria, cholera, heatwaves and hunger, but many problems can be eased or avoided if countries make wise policy choices, doctors has said.(AFP/File/Desmond Kwande)

An Indian farmer with her livestock on the outskirts of Hyderabad. ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:51:57 GMT

(AFP/File) - An Indian farmer with her livestock on the outskirts of Hyderabad. Climate change will imperil health through malaria, cholera, heatwaves and hunger, but many problems can be eased or avoided if countries make wise policy choices, doctors have said.(AFP/File/Noah Seelam)

An Indian crosses a street on a hot day in Kolkata. Climate ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:51:57 GMT

(AFP/File) - An Indian crosses a street on a hot day in Kolkata. Climate change will imperil health through malaria, cholera, heatwaves and hunger, but many problems can be eased or avoided if countries make wise policy choices, doctors have said.(AFP/File/Deshakalyan Chowdhury)

President Barack Obama hopes to "give momentum to the negotiations" ...

(AFP) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:27:04 GMT

(AFP) - President Barack Obama hopes to "give momentum to the negotiations" at a climate change conference in Copenhagen by traveling there on December 9, a US official has said.(AFP/Saul Loeb)

Astronauts Mike Foreman (center) and Randy Bresnik (left) perform ...

(AFP/NASA/File) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:27:50 GMT

(AFP/NASA/File) - Astronauts Mike Foreman (center) and Randy Bresnik (left) perform a series of tasks on the exterior of the International Space Station during the second spacewalk on November 21. The space shuttle Atlantis and its seven-astronaut crew undocked from the International Space Station as it prepared its return to Earth.(AFP/NASA/File/Ho)

VIDEO: Sumatran orangutans are among the most endangered animals ...

(AFPTV) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:11:37 GMT

(AFPTV) - VIDEO: Sumatran orangutans are among the most endangered animals in the world. Hunting and loss of habitat has driven the apes to the brink of extinction. Originally filed: 200809. Duration: 2:03.(AFPTV)

This undated handout photograph, made available by the Sabah ...

(AFP/HO/File) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:11:37 GMT

(AFP/HO/File) - This undated handout photograph, made available by the Sabah Wildlife Department (SWD), shows a male flanged orangutan hanging from a tree in Malaysian Borneo's Sabah State. Malaysian wildlife authorities are using electronic implants to keep track of orangutans in a bid to protect the endangered apes after they are freed into the wild.(AFP/HO/File)

New Zealand's has parliament approved a scheme aimed at ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:05:48 GMT

(AFP/File) - New Zealand's has parliament approved a scheme aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions, but critics immediately said it did not go far enough in the fight against global warming.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)

An Indian woman carries a load of firewood on her head as she ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:35:57 GMT

(AFP/File) - An Indian woman carries a load of firewood on her head as she crosses the desert of in the Kharaghoda region in 2008. Nearly a quarter of India's land mass is desert or is turning into desert, according to a study, with deforestation and overgrazing among the main factors spurring the process.(AFP/File/Sam Panthaky)

VIDEO: Climate change is threatening the ecology of the fragile ...

(AFPTV) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:48:18 GMT

(AFPTV) - VIDEO: Climate change is threatening the ecology of the fragile Himalayan region, which may effect the livelihoods of more than a billion people in India and China. Originally filed: 280809. Duration: 01:27(AFPTV)

A highway in San Francisco, California. US President Barack ...

(AFP/Getty Images/File) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:48:18 GMT

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - A highway in San Francisco, California. US President Barack Obama sought Tuesday to boost hopes of a landmark deal at the Copenhagen climate summit, as a new report showed the crisis facing the planet is deeper than previously thought.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)

A chart showing carbon dioxide emissions per capita by the Group ...

(AFP/Graphic) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:48:18 GMT

(AFP/Graphic) - A chart showing carbon dioxide emissions per capita by the Group of Eight nations and the Group of Five emerging nations. US President Barack Obama sought Tuesday to boost hopes of a landmark deal at the Copenhagen climate summit, as a new report showed the crisis facing the planet is deeper than previously thought.(AFP/Graphic)

A man wears a facemask on a hazy day in Beijing. US President ...

(AFP) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:48:18 GMT

(AFP) - A man wears a facemask on a hazy day in Beijing. US President Barack Obama sought Tuesday to boost hopes of a landmark deal at the Copenhagen climate summit, as a new report showed the crisis facing the planet is deeper than previously thought.(AFP/Frederic J. Brown)

Poor visibility delayed more than 180 domestic and international ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:59:19 GMT

(AFP/File) - Poor visibility delayed more than 180 domestic and international flights serving Beijing on Wednesday, the capital's airport said, following several days of heavy air pollution.(AFP/File/Teh Eng Koon)

Australia's venomous redback spiders are on the march in ...

(AFP/HO/File) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:14:40 GMT

(AFP/HO/File) - Australia's venomous redback spiders are on the march in Japan, where they are believed to have arrived years ago as stowaways on cargo ships, a wildlife expert warned Wednesday. The creepy-crawlies, named after their fiery markings, have infested the Osaka region and are drawing closer to the capital Tokyo, said Japan Wildlife Research Centre official Toshio Kishimoto.(AFP/HO/File)

FILE--Canadian astronaut Bob Thirsk holds plants while on board ...

(Canadian Press) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:07:18 GMT

(Canadian Press) - FILE--Canadian astronaut Bob Thirsk holds plants while on board the International Space Station in this handout photo. Thirsk says his six-month stay aboard the International Space Station has not been that stressful. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Canadian Space Agency

A first edition of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking Origin Of ...

(Canadian Press) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:03:52 GMT

(Canadian Press) - A first edition of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking Origin Of Species. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS /Christie's, ho)

This image made from NASA TV Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 shows the ...

(Canadian Press) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:26:46 GMT

(Canadian Press) - This image made from NASA TV Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 shows the 12 space travelers aboard the orbiting shuttle-station complex during a news conference. Atlantis will undock from the space station on Wednesday. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/NASA)

China called on the European Union to step up cooperation on ...

(AFP/HO/File) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:10:21 GMT

(AFP/HO/File) - China called on the European Union to step up cooperation on climate change. "Soon after the summit the international community will have the Copenhagen conference on climate change," Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun, pictured in 2006 said, referring to the meeting in Denmark to agree a new UN pact on global warming.(AFP/HO/File)

This 2008 NASA file handout image shows a computer graphic with ...

(AFP/NASA-HO/File) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:58:49 GMT

(AFP/NASA-HO/File) - This 2008 NASA file handout image shows a computer graphic with three craters in the eastern Hellas region of Mars containing concealed glaciers detected by radar. A network of valleys discovered on Mars show that the red planet was likely once covered by a vast ocean that fed a humid, rainy climate, according to research published Monday.(AFP/NASA-HO/File)

A polar bear is seen outside Churchill, Manitoba in Canada. ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:57:31 GMT

(AFP/File) - A polar bear is seen outside Churchill, Manitoba in Canada. The planet could warm by seven degrees Celsius (10.8 degrees Fahrenheit) and sea levels could rise by more than a metre (3.25 feet) by 2100, scenarios that just two years ago were viewed as improbable, scientists have said.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)

This handout photo from the James Cook University in 2008 shows ...

(AFP/HO/File) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:57:31 GMT

(AFP/HO/File) - This handout photo from the James Cook University in 2008 shows Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The planet could warm by seven degrees Celsius (10.8 degrees Fahrenheit) and sea levels could rise by more than a metre (3.25 feet) by 2100, scenarios that just two years ago were viewed as improbable, scientists have said.(AFP/HO/File/JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY)

Natives of several tribes take part in an ceremony to call attention ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:57:31 GMT

(AFP/File) - Natives of several tribes take part in an ceremony to call attention to saving the Amazon forest in Belem, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, in January. The planet could warm by seven degrees Celsius (10.8 degrees Fahrenheit) and sea levels could rise by more than a metre (3.25 feet) by 2100, scenarios that just two years ago were viewed as improbable, scientists have said.(AFP/File/Vanderlei Almeida)

This October handout picture shows workers at the Statkraft ...

(AFP/Statkraft/File) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:04:58 GMT

(AFP/Statkraft/File) - This October handout picture shows workers at the Statkraft osmotic power plant in Tofte, south of Oslo. Norway has unveiled the world's first osmotic power plant, harnessing the energy-unleashing encounter of freshwater and seawater to make clean electricity.(AFP/Statkraft/File)