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There are many reasons to ratify the Law of the Sea, not least the fact that it would allow the U.S. to play a role on a range of global ocean issues.

An Editorial, courtesy of the New York Times

Senior officials from the European Union, three U.S. states, Canada, Norway and New Zealand launched an international effort Monday to fight climate change by building a global carbon trading market.

By Barry Hatton of the AP, courtesy of the Washington Post

On the 49th day of his hunger strike, Ted Glick planted himself in front of a white Pontiac SUV at Independence and New Jersey avenues. In view of the U.S. Capitol, he sat down in the crosswalk and locked arms with a half-dozen other protesters a third of his age.

By Dan Zak, courtesy of the Washington Post

Quick, what’s more dangerous: automobiles or cigarettes?

The European Parliament proposed last Wednesday that car advertisements in the European Union carry tobacco-style labels, warning of the environmental impact they cause.

By Eric Pfanner, courtesy of the New York Times

Why do I feel like I began my reporting career 30 years ago listening to the BBC World Service and I’m going to end it glued to the Weather Channel?

A New York Times Editorial by Thomas L. Friedman

White House Cut Climate Warnings

By Juliet Eilperin, courtesy of the Washington Post

he international community must respond more quickly to climate change, species extinction, dwindling supplies of fresh water and other threats to the planet, the U.N. Environment Program warned Thursday.

By Frank Griffiths, courtesy of the Washington Post

The Washington region began getting yesterday what experts hope will be the first sustained rain in weeks, but it is unlikely to reverse the extensive impact of the five-month drought that has parched much of the Southeast.

By Michael E. Ruane, courtesy of the Washington Post

Every weekday at 2:30 p.m., a line of luxury sedans and sport utility vehicles idles outside Scarsdale Middle School in Westchester County. Exhaust fumes pollute the atmosphere, even though posted signs decree this a “No Idling Zone” and students berate their parents for violating it.

By Winnie Hu, courtesy of the New York Times

Whenever the world's tropical seas warm several degrees, Earth has experienced mass extinctions over millions of years, according to a first-of-its-kind statistical study of fossil records.

By Seth Borenstein of the AP, courtesy of the Washington Post

From BMW to Honda, from Chrysler to Volkswagen, the industry is rushing to make vehicles that use less gasoline or don’t rely on it at all.

By Micheline Maynard, courtesy of the New York Times

New York is one of more than a dozen states, led by California, preparing to sue the Bush administration for holding up efforts to regulate emissions from cars and trucks.

By DAnny hakim, courtesy of the New York Times

Imperial Oil Ltd and Exxon Mobil Corp turned heads in the oil industry in July with a nearly $600 million bid that won them a big exploration block in Canada's Beaufort Sea.

From Reuters, courtesy of the New York Times

The extreme makeover of the Frankfurt International Motor Show was the clearest signal yet that European carmakers have gotten religion on green technology.

By Mark Landler, courtesy of the New York Times

With U.S. consumers facing higher heating costs this winter, a new government Web site gives homeowners specific, customized recommendations on how to cut their energy use and save on utility bills.

From Reuters, courtesy of the New York Times

By H. Josef Hebert of the AP, courtesy of the Washington Post

Latest Rally Tied to IMF, World Bank Meetings Focuses on Climate Change

By Michael E. Ruane, courtesy of the Washington Post

The proliferation of coal-burning power plants around the world may pose "the single greatest challenge" to averting dangerous climate change, an international panel of scientists reported Monday.

By Charles G. Hanley from the AP, courtesy of the Washington Post

Energy experts urged nations to move swiftly away from the use of coal and provide new options for the two billion people who still mostly cook in the dark on wood or dung fires.

By Aandrew C. Revkin, courtesy of the New York Times

Whatever the interpretation — a great chance to keep wearing those Bermuda shorts or a harbinger of coming global doom — hot weather is likely to make this October one for the record books.

By John Sullivan, courtesy of the New York Times

Musicians Bonnie Raitt, Graham Nash and Jackson Browne, aging, activist rock stars, have reunited to battle the nuclear power industry on Capitol Hill.

By David M. Herszenhorn, courtesy of the New York Times

The Caribbean tourism industry, the lifeblood for many island economies, needs to brace itself for stronger hurricanes, more frequent droughts and rising sea levels resulting from global warming, scientists said Monday.

From the AP, courtesy of The New York Times

Washington Post staff writer Doug Struck was online Monday, Oct. 22 at 11 a.m. ET to discuss his article, At the Poles, Melting Occurring at Alarming Rate, which looks at the impact of climate change in the arctic regions, and how the melting of the ice caps impacts our climate.

It's a tough world, all right.

Too bad it's not tougher. Right now Earth is looking pretty fragile as it suffers from increasing human punishment.

By Frazier Moore of the AP, courtesy of The Washington Post

For scientists, global warming is a disaster movie, its opening scenes set at the poles of Earth. The epic already has started. And it's not fiction.

By Doug Struck, courtesy of The Washington Post

For CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, the story of Earth's fluctuating environment is best told through its effect on humans.

Courtesy of The Washington Post

Target offers shoppers an unusual message about its gift cards at some stores, advising that they are biodegradable. "Just make sure you spend them first," the displays conclude.

From the AP, courtesy of The New York Times

As water levels in the Great Lakes fall, ships that ferry bulk materials across them must lighten their loads, adding millions to shipping companies’ operating costs.

By Fernanda Santos, courtesy of The New York Times

By Catherine Brahic, courtesy of The New Scientist

An increasingly vocal and potent anti-coal movement in the West includes ranchers, farmers and religious groups.

By Susan Moran, courtesy of The New York Times

The West is the fastest-growing part of the country. It’s also the driest. And climate change could be making matters much, much worse.

By Jon Gertner, courtesy of The New York Times

Science Adviser's Stance at Odds With Panel on Warming

By Juliet Eilperin, courtesy of The Washington Post

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment yesterday became the first government agency in the United States to cite carbon dioxide emissions as the reason for rejecting an air permit for a proposed coal-fired electricity generating plant, saying that the greenhouse gas threatens public health and the environment.

By Steven Mufson, courtesy of The Washington Post

At least 16 coal-fired power plant proposals nationwide have been scrapped in recent months and more than three dozen have been delayed as utilities face increasing pressure due to concerns over global warming and rising construction costs.

By Matthew Brown, courtesy of The Washington Post

How many Ann Arbor city workers does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Soon, none.

From the AP, courtesy of The New York Times

The Coast Guard is planning its first operating base in the Arctic as a way of dealing with ships that are already beginning to ply the Arctic’s increasingly ice-free waters.

By Matthew L. Wald and Andrew C. Revkin, courtesy of The New York Times

The Arctic is under increasing stress from warming temperatures as shrubs colonize the tundra, changing wildlife habitat and local climate conditions, researchers said Wednesday.

From the AP, courtesy of The New York Times

A British explorer said Tuesday he plans to carry out the most accurate survey of the thickness of the Arctic ice during a 1,240-mile trek to the North Pole.

From the AP, courtesy of The New York Times

The costs of climate change to the United States will outweigh its benefits, according to a new University of Maryland study.

By Juliet Eilperin, courtesy of The Washington Post

Van Jones has been on a crusade to help disadvantaged communities understand why they would be the biggest beneficiaries of a greener America.

An editorial by Thomas L. Friedman, courtesy of The New York Times

As $100-a-barrel oil is no longer such a distant prospect, some analysts predicted that motorists would see sharply higher gasoline prices by Thanksgiving.

By Jad Mouawad, courtesy of The New York Times

The Republican presidential candidates are divided over the policy solutions to global warming.

By Marc Santora, courtesy of The New York Times

100 Properties to get upgrades.

By David A. Fahrenthold, courtesy of The Washington Post

The IT industry is both a big consumer of energy and a candidate to help reduce consumption, according to an executive panel.

By Stephen Lawson of PC World, courtesy of The Washington Post

By Veronika Oleksyn of The AP, courtesy of The Washington Post

By Karl Ritter, courtesy of The Washington Post

President George W. Bush said on Monday his administration's approach of emphasizing voluntary approaches to address climate change was working and he denounced Kyoto-style mandatory caps as "bad policy."

From Reuters, courtesy of The New York Times

Alfred Nobel created the peace prize more than a century ago, but it is the Norwegian Nobel Committee that decides who gets it.

By Patrica Cohen, courtesy of The New York Times

Millions of homeowners in Northern states are losing their policies as companies try to limit their exposure to losses from hurricanes.

By Paul Vitello, courtesy of the New York Times

A drought in the Southeastern United States has become so severe that some cities are just months away from running out of water.

By Brenda Goodman, courtesy of The New York Times

Their positions range from enacting a corporate carbon tax to dismissing the threat.

By Brad Knickerbocker, courtesy of The Christian Science Monitor

Al Gore and the United Nations panel of scientists have shown how much citizens with courage can do to raise awareness about the danger of global warming.

A New York Times Editorial

By Juliet Eilperin, courtesy of The Washington Post

By Reuters, courtesy of The Washington Post

By Judith Curry, courtesy of The Washington Post

By Reed Stevenson of Reuters, courtesy of The Washington Post

Sixty-two years after the victorious Allied leaders convened in this stately Prussian town to create the post-World War II world, 15 Nobel Prize laureates assembled here this week for another momentous task: saving the world from global warming.

By Mark Landler, courtesy of The New York Times

There's a way to help the environment and save on taxes every day that you work. The mechanism -- known variously as a commuter benefits program or a transit incentive program (TRIP) -- was created by Congress in the 1990s to encourage the use of mass transit and van pooling.

By the AP, courtesy of The New York Times

Out here next to Steamboat Slough and the lumber mill, piles of garbage from Seattle are lined up in neat rows and blanketed with a fabric similar to that used in high-end Gore-Tex clothing.

By J. Michael Kennedy, courtesy of The New York Times

An Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report to be released next month will show that the limit on greenhouse-gases scientists hoped to avert has already been surpassed.

By Gregory M. Lamb, courtesy of the Christian Science Monitor.

Generation Q may be too quiet, too online, for its own good, and for the country’s own good.

By Thomas L. Friedman, courtesy of The New York Times

By Michael Perry of Reuters, courtesy of The Washington Post

By Meraiah Foley of the AP, courtesy of The Washington Post

Demand, Subsidies Spur U.S. Utilities

By Steven Mufson, courtesy of The Washington Post

Terry Collins sounds like the world's most dour pessimist.

The Carnegie Mellon University chemistry professor paints a bleak picture of the Earth's future, a planet damaged by global warming and ravaged by toxins, with a population sickened by poisonous chemicals.

From the AP, courtesy of the New York Times

Looking high and low, Robbin Thorp can no longer find a species of bumblebee that just five years ago was plentiful in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon.

From the AP, courtesy of The New York Times

Senator Barack Obama presented a plan on Monday to decrease the nation’s dependence on foreign oil and fight global warming.

By Jeff Zeleny, courtesy of The New York Times

As global demand soars and prices rise, energy companies are going to the ends of the earth to find new supplies.

By Jad Mouawad, courtesy of The New York Times

In a stinging critique of Bush administration science policy, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York said yesterday that if she were elected president she would require agency directors to show they were protecting science research from "political pressure" and that she would lift federal limits on stem cell research.

By Patrick Healy and Cornelia Dean, courtesy of The New York Times

The next tool in fighting global warming--and traffic accidents--is the car navigation system, according to Nissan.

By Michael Kanellos, for News.com, courtesy of The New York Times

The United States is moving toward the regulation of carbon emissions, a U.S. energy official said Thursday, despite the Bush administration's adherence to a voluntary approach to controlling the primary gas blamed for climate change.

From the AP, courtesy of The New York Times

he Arctic ice cap shrank so much this summer that waves briefly lapped along two long-imagined Arctic shipping routes, the Northwest Passage over Canada and the Northern Sea Route over Russia.

By Andrew C. Revkin, courtesy of The New York Times

By Thomas L. Friedman, courtesy of The New York Times

By John Acher of Reuters, courtesy of The Washington Post

By Zakki Hakim, courtesy of The Washington Post

By Chris Mellor of PC World, courtesy of The Washington Post

By Chris Mellor of PC World, courtesy of The Washington Post

By Terence Chea of The Associated Press, courtesy of The Washington Post

A team of leading US Democrats is planning to send a delegation to a key UN climate conference to rival President Bush's official team.

By Roger Harrabin, Environment Analyst, BBC News

In response to the new dangers of climate change, we need a mobilization of everyone with a stake in the future.

An New York Times Editorial by Thomas Homer-Dixon

An oversupply of ethanol is suddenly plaguing farmers, in part because distribution of the fuel has not kept pace with new distilleries.

By Clifford Krauss, courtesy of The New York Times

Scientists are concerned by this summer’s massive polar ice melt and its implications for the future.

By Andrew C. Revkin, courtesy of the New York Times

The Center for American Progress has published two interactive maps that allow you to click on any country to learn its emissions.

A majority of the world's 500 largest publicly traded companies have implemented greenhouse-gas emission reduction plans, according to a study released Monday.

By Cassandra Sweet, courtesy of The Dow Jones Newswire.