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Warming's impacts sped up, worsened since Kyoto (AP)

FILE - This 2003 file photo released by Subhankar Banerjee shows a polar bear walking in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. Since an agreement to reduce greenhouse gas pollution was signed in Kyoto, Japan, in Dec. 1997, the level of carbon dioxide in the air has increased 6.5 percent. Officials from across the world will convene in Copenhagen next month to seek a follow-up pact, one that President Barack Obama says 'has immediate operational effect...an important step forward in the effort to rally the world around a solution.' (AP Photo/Subhankar Banerjee, File)AP - Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.


Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:54:19 GMT
Denmark: 65 world leaders for UN climate summit (AP)

A Danish official says 65 world leaders so far will attend the Copenhagen climate summit in December and several more have responded positively to invitations. (AP Graphic)AP - Sixty-five world leaders have said they will attend the Copenhagen climate summit in December, and several more have responded positively to invitations, Danish officials said Sunday.


Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:49:47 GMT
Rare Charles Darwin book found on toilet bookshelf (AP)

FILE -  In this undated file photo, British scientist Charles Robert Darwin, founder of the theory for the evolution of life is seen at an unknown location. An auction house said Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009 it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species' found in a family's guest lavatory in southern England. (AP Photo, File)AP - An auction house says it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" found in a family's guest lavatory in southern England.


Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:31:28 GMT
Thousands of Strange Sea Creatures Discovered (LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - The deep sea is teeming with thousands of species that have never known . . .
Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:11:33 GMT
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