Climate News and Resources

Green Energy Advocates urge sustained support through inclusion in stimulus package.

By Mark Clayton | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

The oil multinational is predicting that conventional supplies will not keep pace with soaring population growth and the rapid pace of economic development.

Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought is drying up the rivers and lakes that supply power plants with the awesome amounts of cooling water they need to operate.

By Mitch Weiss of the AP, courtesy of the Washington Post

The U.S. ranks at the bottom of the Group of 8 industrialized nations in the analysis conducted by researchers at Yale and Columbia Universities.

By Felicity Barringer, courtesy of the New York Times

You can flip off your widescreen TV with the remote control. Power down your computer to standby. Unplug your cellphone from its charger. But as you leave the room, the "wall warts" -- those small boxes plugged into the wall sockets that power your electronics -- stare with glowing diode eyes in accusation: You are still using power.

By Doug Struck, courtesy of The Washington Post

Eleven companies are teaming up to see how they can work with thousands of their suppliers to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

From Reuters, courtesy of the New York Times

Demand for biofuels has created tension between using land to produce fuel and using it for food.

By Keith Bradsher, courtesy of the New York Times

In the last year, the political winds on climate change have shifted dramatically. A cap on the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases is now widely seen as inevitable. But that just leads to another huge debate, over how the required reductions will be achieved. And into this debate comes an interesting new idea, a carbon dividend.

By John Carey, courtesy of Business Week

A talk by Steven W. Running, a Nobel laureate and climate researcher, was canceled in Choteau, Montana, a small farming and ranching town.

By Jim Robbins, courtesy of the New York Times

The rush to build power plants slows as worries grow over global warming, building costs and transportation.

By Judy Pasternak, courtesy of the Los Angeles Times

Each year, the Worldwatch Institute releases a report analyzing the year's environmental trends. This year's report focuses on the "greening" of industry. During today's OnPoint, Tom Prugh, co-director of Worldwatch's State of the World 2008 report, explains why environmental issues are driving the global economy. He discusses what lies ahead for carbon markets and also addresses how local governments can engage communities for a more sustainable world.
[Video ~ 9min]
Courtesy eenews.net

Sheets Melting in an Area Once Thought to Be Unaffected by Global Warming

Climatic changes appear to be destabilizing vast ice sheets of western Antarctica that had previously seemed relatively protected from global warming, researchers reported yesterday, raising the prospect of faster sea-level rise than current estimates.

By Marc Kaufman, courtesy of the Washington Post

The news of environmental traumas assails us from every side -- unseasonal storms, floods, fires, drought, melting ice caps, lost species of river dolphins and giant turtles, rising sea levels potentially displacing inhabitants of Arctic and Pacific islands and hundreds of thousands of people dying every year from air pollution.

By Michael Novacek, courtesy of the Washington Post

Ice, Ice Baby (Circa 90 Million Years Ago)

THE BIG IDEA: Scientists have long envisioned the Cretaceous "super-greenhouse" period, the era some 90 million years ago when crocodiles roamed the Arctic and the temperature of tropical oceans soared to 98 degrees Fahrenheit (14 degrees warmer than they are today), as a sort of anti-Ice Age.

Outside the headquarters of Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc, the pavement is iced over and workers arriving for the day are bundled up against the cold.

By Cary Gilliam of Reuters, courtesy of the Washington Post

Japan urged China to do more to fight global warming and pledged to help the country reduce runaway pollution during high-level talks in the Chinese capital on Friday.

By Joseph Kahn, courtesy of the New York Times

For generations of Maplewood residents, the coming of winter meant the return of a tableau worthy of the most clichéd Currier and Ives print. Magically, the township’s public works employees would throw a switch or turn a knob and suddenly water would begin to flow from a creek in Memorial Park into an adjacent low-lying field.

By Terry Golway, courtesy of the New York Times

By 2050 solar power could end U.S. dependence on foreign oil and slash greenhouse gas emissions

By Ken Zweibel, James Mason and Vasilis Fthenakis, courtesy of Scientific American

Frozen in much the state it died some 37,500 years ago, a Siberian baby mammoth undergoing tests in Japan could finally explain why the beasts were driven to extinction _ and shed light on climate change, scientists said Friday.

By Hiroko Tabuchi of the AP, courtesy of the Washington Post

California sued the federal government in its struggle to set the country's first greenhouse gas limits on cars, trucks and SUVs, asking the Environmental Protection Agency to review its decision to deny the state a waiver that would allow it and 16 other states to regulate emissions.

By Samantha Young of the AP, courtesy of the Washington Post

There's more to the recent dramatic and alarming thawing of the Arctic region than can be explained by man-made global warming alone, a new study found. Nature is pushing the Arctic to the edge, too.

By Seth Borenstein, courtesy of the Washington Post

A Hampton University professor is shedding new light on night-shining clouds that might be affected by climate change. Jim Russell is the lead scientist for the NASA-funded AIM satellite, the first to study the wispy "noctilucent" clouds, which only appear above Earth's poles.

From the AP, courtesy of the Washington Post

Britain is expected to give the go-ahead to a new generation of nuclear power stations next week, sparking a frenzy of deal-making by nuclear firms as well as a fresh challenge from environmental campaigners.

By Pete Harrison of Reuters, courtesy of the Washington Post

In a workshop in the city's Mission District, Ally Beran's team of fashion designers is sprawled out over buttons and spools of thread, hoping to stem global warming by stitching new outfits from thrift store finds.

From the AP, courtesy of the New York Times

The Bush administration’s decision to deny California permission to regulate and reduce global warming emissions from cars and trucks is an indefensible act of executive arrogance that can only be explained as the product of ideological blindness and as a political payoff to the automobile industry.

An editorial, courtesy of the New York Times

With its plethora of gadgets that become outdated almost as soon as they are sold, the consumer electronics industry is an unlikely champion of the environment.

From Reuters, courtesy of the New York Times

LAST June, Jim Manzi, a longtime software executive, laid out a case in The National Review for the need for conservatives to accept the “reality” of global warming (nationalreview.com).

By Dan Mitchell, courtesy of the New York Times

I strongly believe that adding polar bears to the list under the Endangered Species Act is the wrong move at this time.

An editorial by Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, courtesy of the New York Times

It’s a very good bet that the biggest foreign policy issues for the next president will involve the Far East rather than the Middle East.

By Paul Krugman, an editorial courtesy of the New York Times

It is not yet clear to what extent Americans are willing to grapple with the implications of any serious strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

A New York Times Editorial

The world has serious consumption problems, but we can solve them if we choose to do so.

A New York Times Editorial by Jared Diamond