Climate change isn't lovable. But the people who research its effects certainly are. And this year has been especially rough on them.
It seems the more scientists and experts provide conclusive science to show that human-caused climate change is happening now, the more they are chastised and threatened for it....
2 Comments | Posted January 6, 2012 | 01/06/12 10:07 AM ET
2011 was a year of changes and challenges for the climate movement. In a year where millions suffered through the impacts of extreme weather and climate change, millions more rose up for them and with them.
For the past 12 months our partners and allies in the climate movement...
Posted December 8, 2011 | 12/08/11 02:32 PM ET
Whatever happens, the next 36 hours will change the world.
The Durban climate negotiations dance on a wire. Sway but a little, and everything falls.
For the past ten days scientists, politicians, faith leaders, health leaders, artists and unions have formed an urgent choir calling on the negotiators to act. Our partners in...
Posted December 1, 2011 | 12/01/11 10:37 AM ET
After more than a decade of living on Canada's West Coast, I consider myself a connoisseur of rain. Until Sunday night's epic rain and windstorm here in Durban, I thought I'd seen it all. Around 7 p.m. the skies opened up -- dousing the city with sheets of rain, driving...
Posted September 27, 2011 | 09/27/11 03:15 PM ET
When we talk about the Alberta tar sands, a lot of phrases come to mind.
"Summer vacation spot" is generally not one of them.
Unless you're two 17 year old kids from Victoria, BC with big questions about Canada's largest oil reserve and its implications on the future...
Posted September 23, 2011 | 09/23/11 11:46 PM ET
This Saturday the world will come together for Moving Planet -- a global day to move beyond fossil fuels. At more than 2,000 events in 169 countries worldwide, people will gather by bike, on skates, with boards or on foot to demand solutions to the climate crisis and to demand...
Posted September 20, 2011 | 09/20/11 12:48 PM ET
This December President Obama will face the most important test of his environmentalist credentials before the next election when he decides whether to approve the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The pipeline was the subject of the largest environmental protest in decades when 1,253 people were arrested over two weeks...

Posted February 14, 2012 | 02/14/12 08:13 AM ET