With all the wild accusations flying around over the illegally obtained email correspondence from the University of East Climate Research Unit, I thought I would ask one of the scientists in the middle of the issue to provide some context.

Penn State University climate scientist, Dr. Michael Mann,...

This Thanksgiving, leaders in the youth climate movement have much more to celebrate than our tofurkey dinners. On the heels of the President's encouraging announcement that he will attend the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen on Dec. 9, dozens of us also received an invitation to the Obama...

The anger and energy of the climate skeptics is at a fever pitch lately. The breaking story that the Wall Street Journal loves so much is about one climate research center in the UK that may have been unwelcoming to contrary opinions. So the conspiracy theorists are all over this...

With a mission "to break the cycle of poverty among youth in developing communities by creating educational opportunities, cultivating civic interaction, and encouraging healthy lifestyles," the Guatemalan nonprofit organization, Long Way Home, is amid a green construction project to build a school building for the 40,000 residents of San Juan...

Thanksgiving is the holiday most associated with celebrating healthy and abundant food. For many, it is also be a time when we recommit ourselves to creating an organic food future that promotes, safe, local, humane, socially just and biodiverse food production.

An under-publicized and often hidden threat to this...

In the world of military intelligence, much time is spent trying to distinguish "blinks" -- unpremeditated random actions -- from "winks" -- deliberate moves designed to communicate intent and draw out a response. The climate change negotiations have now entered a phase where a team of tame "spooks" is needed...

When I moved to the country this past spring, I breathed a sigh of relief for the natural environment and abundant animal life surrounding me. Gophers are everywhere--supposedly they ran the Russians out of Sonoma County--their wild escapades are evident across the dimpled landscape of the 80-acre organic farm I...

(Ed Note -- This is a video blog from Bradley Whitford encouraging you to become a candidate for our Hopenhagen Ambassador contest, where we'll send one lucky winner to the Copenhagen Climate Conference, which Obama just announced he will be attending. You can enter the contest here.)

President Obama announced today that he will attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, raising the stakes for himself and all participating nations.

The initial goal for Copenhagen was to forge a binding treaty. But that ambitious goal has been scaled back. With American climate protection...

The climate conspiracy theorists are enjoying their moment of glory with the hacked emails that were made public late last week.

And who can blame them, given that many of them were relegated to the fringe years ago?

I suspect that most mainstream media will not buy the overblown...

What do we make of the prospects for global action on the climate crisis, given recent events both in the U.S. Congress and in the international conversations leading up to Copenhagen? Something very peculiar is going on. Most of the major players are moving in the right direction -- toward...

The leaders of the world asked for an extension on climate action in Singapore this past weekend.  As Jake Schmidt points out, whether this is good or bad depends on how the leaders of the world's top emitters...

Huffington Post is holding a contest to send a citizen journalist to Copenhagen as part of its Hopenhagen platform. This contest will provide a unique insight on Copenhagen, and will be a chance for the concerns of the people to be heard.

The most important humanitarian crisis of the...

Next month, at the climate change summit in Copenhagen, the wealthy nations that produce most of the excess carbon in our atmosphere will almost certainly fail to embrace measures adequate to ward off the devastation of our planet by heat and chaotic weather.  Their leaders will probably promise us teaspoons...

The following is a speech I gave last week for Oceana's 16th annual Partner Award event honoring Arianna Huffington and Deepak Chopra

How many of you here tonight get at least five fundraiser invitations a month? How many get ten? Fifteen?

This is the stack of them that...

An abiding image of contemporary India is the high-tech call center. A less known one is the wire-strewn electronic waste recycling yard.

India's 300 million-strong middle class is buying more and more electronic goods; televisions are no longer a novelty and computers are de rigueur for children. Cell phones have...

When I was in the thick of my New York life and not taking many vacations out in the greenery, I was invited to go white water rafting. My main occupation at the time was observing...

 With the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen just weeks away, Obama has a chance to push real, concrete action forward by making clean energy and climate solutions a central part of his meetings with India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

As the world’s fourth largest emitter of greenhouse gases, India will be...