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Journalism is usually at its best in the wake of disaster.

The tragic scenes we are seeing on the airwaves and in the newspapers in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy are a bitter testament to that. Our hearts go out to...

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To get an idea of how much the fossil fuel industry is spending to convince you that more drilling, fracking and mining is the answer for our economy, consider this:

The industry has spent more on television advertising this year alone...

 Editorials are supposed to convey the opinions of a publication’s editorial board.

But they aren't supposed to distort the facts and mislead the public.

Anybody who has read the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal knows the newspaper's opinions on the environment and climate change. Sometimes the nation’s biggest...

The temperature’s cooling, the power is back on in Washington, D.C., the fires are almost out in Colorado and they’ve almost cleaned up from the flooding in Florida.

So naturally, those who continue to deny (at the peril of the rest of us) the connection between climate change and extreme...

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The media just might be starting to see the obvious link between climate change and extreme weather.

Of course it’s hard to miss during a week or so when we have deluges in Florida, wildfires in Colorado and deadly freak storms...

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More than 400,000 people are still without power in the Washington, D.C. area after one of the region’s most bizarre and damaging storms in history.

I am one of them.

The lights and air conditioning went out at my...

There's a saying in Portuguese, one of the few that I know: Mais ou Menos.

It means more or less. Brazilians often use the phrase when you ask them how they’re doing. Mais ou Menos: Good, more or less.

Looking back, with the road to Rio+20 now behind us,...

Rio+20 is atwitter about fossil-fuel subsidies. The high costs of tax breaks and incentives for oil, gas, coal, and other fossil-fuel companies are driving the discussion at numerous panels at the Earth Summit.

It's not just environmentalists who think world leaders should end fossil-fuel subsidies, which total nearly

NRDC co-founder John Adams attended the world's first global environmental conference in Stockholm in 1972, accompanied by wife Patricia and two law school students. Their goal then was simply to learn more about global environmental issues and how they could play a role in addressing them. Adams and NRDC have...

The unforgettable line in the 1967 classic movie The Graduate comes from Mr. McQuire when he sums up for Ben Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) what he sees as the key to the world.

 “I just want to say one word to you -- just one word,” McGuire (Walter Brooke) says solemnly.

“Plastics.”