Report From Copenhagen
It is almost certain that the final binding deal will not be reached in Copenhagen, but we have every reason to believe that we are moving in the right direction.
It is almost certain that the final binding deal will not be reached in Copenhagen, but we have every reason to believe that we are moving in the right direction.
AP | JASON DEAREN | Posted 12.17.2009 | Home
SAN FRANCISCO — Scientists have recorded the deepest erupting undersea volcano ever seen, capturing for the first time video of fiery molten lav...
Anne Butterfield | Posted 12.11.2009 | Denver
Climate defenders need a simple, concrete frame that captures the CO2 crisis, hopefully one that can be grasped with a high-school education. It's the acid story.
Brendan DeMelle | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green
Despite the best efforts of a small handful of climate skeptics who argue that the globe has cooled rather than warmed since the record hot year of 1998, no such cooling trend has taken place.
Frances Beinecke | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green
We can debate the policy of global warming, but we can no longer debate the scientific reality that global warming is hitting us today.
Harry Fuller | Posted 07.17.2009 | Green
Less than six months after Dick Cheney lost his power position in Washington D.C., federal scientists have re-gained their freedom of speech. Today a...
Julie Packard | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green
Americans now believe their individual actions can make a difference for the environment and the health of the ocean. They're ready to act - but they're not sure what to do.
Bill Chameides | Posted 04.23.2009 | Green
Now, in 2009 we find ourselves at a low point in our ability to monitor the climate from space. It probably won't come as a shock that the scientific community has not endorsed the decline in America's climate monitoring capability.
Jerry Cope | Posted 03.28.2009 | Green
That an agreement to reduce CO2 concentration levels must be reached is critical to the survival of human civilization as we know it.
Janet Ritz | Posted 01.22.2009 | Green
As reported in The Environmentalist last April, the Chinook salmon run in the Sacramento River has collapsed.
Frances Beinecke | Posted 01.04.2009 | Green
As Secretary of Commerce, Bill Richardson can position the US as a leader on international ocean issues. He is a big-picture person, someone who understands the global stage.
Christopher Brauchli | Posted 12.21.2008 | Green
Pity the poor whale. All it wants is to peacefully swim in the ocean. Instead it finds itself caught up in a net of litigation and rule-making processes.
Janet Ritz | Posted 11.20.2008 | Green
Palin had opposed the endangered listing for beluga whales in part by questioning the science and saying the listings would hinder oil and natural gas drilling.
AP | Posted 07.15.2008 | Green
MIAMI — Hurricane Bertha strengthened to a Category 3 storm Monday as it swirled in the central Atlantic, but it posed no immediate threat to la...
Janet Ritz | Posted 06.28.2008 | Green
Congress, candidates and electorate take note: The extreme weather the U.S. has been experiencing is due to climate change and is expected to become more extreme in the future.
Rep. Diana DeGette | Posted 12.18.2009 | Denver