The sun´s changing energy levels are not to blame for recent global warming.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has urged local governments to shut polluting plants and encourage families to save energy.
U.N. nuclear inspectors are likely to arrive in North Korea on Saturday to verify a promised shutdown of the country´s nuclear reactor.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said that Brazil will budget about $540 million over eight years to complete its nuclear program.
Canada wants to double trade with Brazil by 2012, tightening links in sectors ranging from agriculture and mining to air transportation and biofuels.
State lawmakers, faced with a record number of constituents who may lose their homes, are pressing to pass their own laws to halt mortgage-lending abuses, saying they can´t afford to rely on the U.S. Congress to act.
China´s trade surplus soared to a record $26.9 billion in June, exceeding economists´ estimates and supplying ammunition for U.S. lawmakers threatening sanctions unless the yuan appreciates faster.
The White House on Monday dared the Democratic-led Congress to fight it in court by refusing to provide information and testimony demanded in an investigation into the firing of federal prosecutors.
The government has granted a preliminary green light to a massive Amazon dam project intended to prevent possible energy shortages, but also criticized as a potential environmental disaster.
U.S. lawmakers agreed on Monday to drop efforts to extend union protection to about 45,000 federal airport security workers as part of stalled legislation to guard against another September 11-type attack.
Forget about Britain´s plan to reduce emissions 60 percent by 2050. According to a radical new strategy released on Monday, the country could be completely carbon-free within two decades.
United Nations nuclear inspectors have been given the go-ahead to return to North Korea to begin the process of shutting down the main nuclear reactor.
By the end of this year, police officials say, more than 100 cameras will have begun monitoring cars moving through Lower Manhattan, the beginning phase of a London-style surveillance system that would be the first in the United States.
Several outstanding United States officials will be visiting Brazil and other "friendly" countries in South America to promote political and trade links in the framework of what has been described as the year of the "US commitment with Latin America."
EU agriculture commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel has warned her colleague, health commissioner Markos Kyprianou, that "the credibility of the whole EU Commission will be at stake" in its handling of an Irish report alleging malpractices in the Brazilian beef industry.
Argentine President Nestor Kirchner called Thursday, July 5, on his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to help smooth the way so Venezuela can become an active member of Mercosur.
The planned merger of the energy operations of Norway´s oil giant Statoil and Norsk Hydro has been approved by shareholders.
A joint venture between the Brazilian oil company Petrobras and the Portuguese Galp for the production and distribution of biofuels requires investment of approximately 910 million Brazilian reais (US$ 480 million) and should be running by 2010, according to the president of the Portuguese company, Manuel Ferreira de Oliveira.
European Union and U.S. lawmakers must work more closely if a project to cut transatlantic red tape and expand trade is to succeed, an EU official said on Thursday.
Japan kept up the pressure on North Korea over its nuclear weapons and missiles and expressed concern about the lack of transparency on China´s burgeoning military spending in a government defense paper published on Friday.
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