Expecting More from Copenhagen
Instead of lowering our expectations of Copenhagen, we must expect and demand more of negotiators, and push them over that brink. It is imperative that we transcend the pessimism.
As with many poorer countries, Peru is bearing the brunt of a problem it has done little to cause. Its emissions account for only 0.1% of greenhouse gasses, but climate change has affected all aspects of life there.
Instead of lowering our expectations of Copenhagen, we must expect and demand more of negotiators, and push them over that brink. It is imperative that we transcend the pessimism.
America will not win the arms race of the 21st century with rockets, but with robust investment in and support of U.S.-based green technology. While Congress dawdles, China is clobbering us.
In the face of current rates of cancer, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer's and allergies, our families are no longer guaranteed a healthy livelihood. We need a new food system. It's our health on the line.
You may think bats are scary, but what's truly terrifying is the mysterious fungus that's decimating the bat population -- the so-called "white-nose syndrome."
Nearly all point the finger at the US for delaying a global agreement on climate change. But if they want to find the real culprit, they have no look no further than the US coal and oil industry.
Big Carbon is fighting for its life and seems determined to do as much damage as it can before it faces the inevitable. The world will move on to a clean-energy, post-coal-and-oil economy.
Solving our global fisheries crisis will require global solutions, and involvement from everyone. Making good choices about the seafood we eat is a great way for each of us to do our part.
This week, a new organization threatened to convert Jetson-esque schemes for powering electric cars from futurism into reality through a network of charging stations and affordable electric cars.
To find out more about the real climate impacts of flying, I turned to George Marshall, founder of the Climate Outreach and Information Network.
How could it be that a river is an object of worship, yet permitted to get dirtier and dirtier, to become a threat to the health of the very people who revere it, even bathing in and drinking it as part of their ritual?
In the Arctic waters surrounding Alaska, George W. Bush is still president, but Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has the chance to inaugurate a new regime.
A recently exposed whopper conjured up by climate change deniers highlights exactly what is behind the fight against climate change solutions: lies.