When the oil rig Deepwater Horizon sank on April 20th killing 11 people and opening an underwater oil geyser 5,000 feet below the ocean surface, few predicted the length and extent of the disaster. The inability to stop the leak, which the federal government now estimates is dumping 35,000 to...

On Saturday, March 27th at 8:30pm local time, hundreds of millions of people from around the world will turn off their lights for an hour. The event, called Earth Hour, symbolizes "turning the lights off on pollution and climate change, making the switch to a cleaner, safer and...

While much of the domestic dialogue surrounding climate change focuses on curbing pollution and transitioning to clean sources of energy, this debate fails to address another concern critical to the issue of climate change -- preparing for the inevitable consequences of a changing climate. This aspect is frequently absent from...