Reuters: Climate campaigner Al Gore collected the Nobel Peace Prize on Monday and said it was time to stop waging war on the earth and make peace with the planet. The former U.S. vice president shared the 2007 peace prize with the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change whose head, Rajendra Pachauri, urged leaders at a U.N. climate conference in Indonesia to heed the wisdom of science. "Without realising it, we have begun to wage war on the earth itself," …

Associated Press: Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore said Monday that the United States and China will "stand accountable before history" if they fail to take the lead against global warming – a daunting threat that would require wartime resolve. In accepting the prize he shared with the U.N. climate panel, the former U.S. vice president said humanity must make peace with the earth or slide down a path of "mutually assured destruction." "We, the human species, are …

Associated Press: China and other emerging economies don’t contribute to reining in greenhouse gases, "it would be very difficult" to get a new global climate deal through the U.S. Senate, even under a Democratic president, Sen. John Kerry said Monday. "At some point in time, they will have to take on those reductions, for several reasons, most importantly the developed countries are not going to be able to do this on their own," Kerry said in an interview. The Massachusetts …

Reuters: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Al Gore said on Monday the U.S. presidential election campaign had paid insufficient attention to the environment and climate change. The former U.S. vice president, who lost a bid for the White House to George W. Bush in 2000 and has repeatedly said he has no plan to run again in 2008, said he would have pushed climate to the top of the agenda if he had been president. "Some of the candidates have made speeches which are quite good and proposals …

Associated Press: Al Gore received his Nobel Peace Prize on Monday and urged the United States and China to make the boldest moves on climate change or "stand accountable before history for their failure to act." "We, the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency — a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential even as we gather here," Gore said in his acceptance speech. Gore shared the Nobel with the …

Live Science: Solar energy is the light alternative to a carbon-rich energy diet, and it may be the only renewable energy that can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, engineers say. "Wind can play some role, as can biofuels and geothermal, but they are all too small," said Erin Baker of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. "The three really big players are solar energy, nuclear power and carbon capture and storage." Over the course of a day, the amount of …

Physorg: In a mission of unprecedented scale, scientists are about to cover West Antarctica with a network of sensors to monitor the interactions between the ice and the earth below — 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The National Science Foundation (NSF) just awarded the collaboration, called POLENET, $4.5 million to plant global positioning system (GPS) trackers and seismic sensors on the bedrock that cradles the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS). Lead institution Ohio State University will …

Agence France-Presse: The United States is waiting in the wings to play a leading role in the fight against climate change, defeated 2004 presidential candidate Senator John Kerry said here Monday. With President George Bush entering his last year in office, the Democrat who lost the race for the White House three years ago said a new American leader could make a difference in tackling global warming. But Kerry, leading a delegation from the Democratic-led Senate to the UN talks on climate change on …

Variety: The White House routinely denied media requests for interviews on global warming with any government scientists who did not completely support President Bush’s views on the controversial issue, a new House report has charged. "Political Interference With Climate Change Science Under the Bush Administration," compiled by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, was released Monday morning at about the same time that news orgs were reporting on former vice …

United Press International: A U.S. House committee report released Monday suggests the Bush administration has censored government scientists on the topic of global warming. The report drafted by Democratic staff for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee accuses the White House of limiting the media’s access to government scientists and of editing congressional testimony, The Hill reported Monday. "The evidence before the committee leads to one inescapable conclusion: The Bush …