Nature World: This may be the hottest year on record, according to recent research, a notion that has sparked more urgency at UN climate talks.
At the opening of an annual summit on global warming in Lima, Peru, 195 officials with the United Nations (UN) are asking for more drastic action to combat the damaging effects of climate change. Specifically, they want to finalize a climate pact in Paris by the end of 2015, according to BBC News, to cap greenhouse gases in all nations.
Though the United States and...