A Challenge on Mother's Day
There were several developments this week on the climate front that left me deeply disheartened and angry.
There were several developments this week on the climate front that left me deeply disheartened and angry.
Dennis Merritt Jones | Posted 04.19.2012
We need to remember that infinite intelligence is the soil, the essential foundation upon which we grow our lives. Then we can view the challenges in our lives as blessings. It is that contrast that develops our character and deepens our spiritual roots in the rich soil of being.
The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 03.19.2012
Southern California wind continues to prove more powerful than the area's power lines. Throughout the weekend storm of wind, rain and, in some areas, ...
Posted 02.22.2012
By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 02/21/2012 06:16 PM EST on SPACE.com Scientists have measured the fastest winds yet observed from a stellar-mass ...
J. Michael Welton | Posted 04.02.2012
Filmmaker Laura Israel isn't tilting at windmills -- but she does want to cast a critical eye in their direction. And she's done that with Windfall -- her first documentary film.
LiveScience | Remy Melina | Posted 01.14.2012
Researchers have developed an interactive tool that uses bat calls and local environmental conditions to help wind farms reduce bat fatalities while...
Manish Bapna | Posted 03.12.2012
What are the top environmental and development issues that will shape 2012? While we can't predict the future, here's a rundown of the key issues to keep an eye on.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 01.18.2012
In light of the lack of compliance and violations of Clean Water Act laws, is Gov. Quinn's IEPA making a mockery out of the legal responsibility and moral obligation of the state on behalf of its citizens?
Tom Zeller Jr. | Posted 01.14.2012
When the State Department moved Thursday to postpone a decision on whether the Keystone XL oil pipeline serves the national interests of the United States environmental groups found much to celebrate. But they also surely know that the dispute over Keystone XL -- a proxy, really, for broader and still unresolved debates over oil, climate change and energy policy in America -- is far from over, not least because the delay was much more about political expediency than it was about environmental due process. In reality, the administration's punt highlights just how far environmentalists still have to go to get the country focused on clean energy policies.
HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 01.10.2012
Part of a series investigating the complex linkages between human, animal and environmental health: The Infection Loop. Dr. Jane C. Burns always t...
Bill Chameides | Posted 12.19.2011
When assessing green energy subsidies, a little history helps.
Bill Meadows | Posted 11.07.2011
Here are the facts about cleaner, greener jobs -- the kind of jobs that President Obama should call for in his speech before Congress on Thursday night.
HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 10.27.2011
He may be nearly 1,000 miles from the storm's center, but few people in America have as good idea of what Hurricane Irene is doing -- and is about to ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 10.27.2011
Hurricane Irene's powerful one-two punch of high winds and heavy rainfall will undoubtedly result in dangerous airborne debris, fallen trees and flash...
Mason Inman | Posted 09.30.2011
Clean energy could be among the hardest-hit sectors if the U.S. government does not raise the debt ceiling and then defaults on the national debt.
Michael Moynihan | Posted 09.30.2011
Despite intense focus by Silicon Valley and the support of the US government, the US is not catching up with Europe or China on clean energy and in many measures, we are falling further behind.
Natalie Pace | Posted 09.04.2011
Many presidents ride into the sunset of their life, after four or eight years of public service, content to build a Presidential Library and play golf without the weight of the world ruining their swing. But not the Job-Creator-in-Chief: Bill Clinton.
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 09.04.2011
The stream of reactor disasters spewing from this dying industry is certain to escalate. The toll rises with each leak at Fukushima, every flame at Los Alamos, each legal brief at Vermont Yankee, every foot of Nebraska floodwater.
Philip Radford | Posted 08.31.2011
Germany, Switzerland and Italy are all abandoning nuclear in favor of clean and safe renewable energy that don't threaten our homes and communities with meltdowns and radioactive fallout
Javier Sierra | Posted 08.23.2011
It is in the hands of the EPA that Rosa Perea's 5-year-old son and hundreds of thousands of other Latino kids -- the most punished by asthma -- will see themselves freed from the cruelty of this disease.
AP | SARAH EDDINGTON | Posted 06.15.2011
CRYSTAL SPRINGS, Ark. — Powerful spring storms roared through parts of the South on Friday, toppling trees, smashing buildings and killing at le...
Terry Tamminen | Posted 06.12.2011
America, it could be worse. We could be Europe. I mean, we're still mostly in the race with China -- in the past five years, they improved energy effi...
Liz Butler | Posted 05.31.2011
The health and welfare of every community in this country and around the world will be jeopardized if Obama allows Congress to gut the Clean Air Act. Shame on you, Mr. President.
Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm | Posted 05.30.2011
Absent national policy and clear roadmap, it's not surprising that we find ourselves in the same soup as Nixon and every administration since.
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 05.30.2011
Every so often -- when gas prices are high, when oil sludge is pouring into the sea, or while a nuclear plant lies smoldering -- the sitting president stands before the American people to call for better energy policy.
Betsy Rosenberg | Posted 05.13.2012