Dec 18 On Final Day of Copenhagen Summit, a Look at NewsHour Climate Coverage By Hari Sreenivasan Over the past two weeks, the PBS Newshour has had comprehensive coverage of the climate conference in Copenhagen, not only with our updates during the day in our Rundown blog from Ray Suarez and… Continue reading
Dec 18 Will ‘Avatar’ Take-off at the Box Office? By Molly Finnegan Opening Friday nationwide is James Cameron’s latest epic cinematic and technical feat. “Avatar,” a digital 3-D action adventure movie about human colonization of a distant moon already occupied by a race of blue aliens. Costing nearly $400 million for production… Continue reading
Dec 18 How Environmental Is the Climate Summit? By Talea Miller A truly environmentally friendly international climate summit would probably have to take place via the Internet, with all parties and observers comfortably parked in their favorite chairs at home. But that would mean no wheeling and dealing in the corridors,… Continue reading
Dec 18 Obama Urges Action, Meets With Chinese Premier By Maureen Hoch President Barack Obama told world leaders Friday that it was time to come together on a climate change agreement, calling out stubborn positions that have stood in the way of progress, namely between rich and poorer countries. Continue reading
Dec 18 Watch Binding Pact, Congress Remain Major Climate Hurdles for Obama Judy Woodruff asks two experts to weigh the outcome of the non-binding agreement reached Friday at the international climate summit in Copenhagen. Continue watching
Dec 18 Watch Leaders Reach Climate Accord, but Skepticism Remains Leaders from the U.S., China, India and South Africa have reached a "meaningful agreement" on combating global warming at the international climate summit in Copenhagen, but many officials say the deal fell short of expectations. Ray Suarez reports. Continue watching
Dec 18 Watch Nobel Laureate Explores Links Between Climate Change, Biodiversity As the Copenhagen climate summit comes to an end, Paul Solman speaks to a Nobel Prize winner about how a warming planet affects biodiversity. Continue watching
Dec 17 Watch In India, Battling Global Warming One Stove at a Time Battling Global Warming One Stove at a Time… Continue watching
Dec 17 What Can Still Be Accomplished at Copenhagen? By Talea Miller As climate negotiators prepare to work through the night in Copenhagen, the NewsHour asked several experts at the summit what they think can still be accomplished. Is there one thing that could still be accomplished at the summit that could… Continue reading
Dec 17 Controlling ‘Black Carbon’ May Be Key to Slowing Climate Change By Fred de Sam Lazaro Black carbon is a relatively new entrant into the climate change lexicon. Professor V. Ramanathan, a leading climate scientist, ranks it behind only carbon dioxide as a cause of global warming. He says it is a major cause of… Continue reading