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Congress will have to ensure that regulators design the tightest possible standards for ethanol production.

A New York Times Editorial

The wind turbines that recently went up on Louis Brooks’s ranch are twice as high as the Statue of Liberty, with blades that span as wide as the wingspan of a jumbo jet. More important from his point of view, he is paid $500 a month apiece to permit 78 of them on his land, with 76 more on the way.

By Clifford Krauss, courtesy of the New York Times

Business Groups Express Concern Over Expense
At the Maryland State House in Annapolis on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley met with environmental advocacy groups to discuss global warming solutions.

By Lisa Rein, courtesy of the Washington Post

No one doubts that human-induced climate change has been killing corals across the globe. The question is whether humans can help save them before the devastation is complete.

By Juliet Eilperin, courtesy of the Washington Post

The cancellation of a clean-coal project shows there's no silver bullet for climate change.

President Bush announced in 2004 and then continually promoted a public-private venture he hoped would usher in an era of clean coal and be a cornerstone of U.S. efforts to address global warming.

An Editorial, courtesy of the Washington Post

Human activities are affecting every square mile of the world's oceans, according to a study by a team of American, British and Canadian researchers who mapped the severity of the effects from pole to pole.

By Juliet Eilperin, courtesy of the Washington Post

Climate change may be causing sea levels to rise, but in some coastal areas the problem is worsened because the land is sinking as well. That’s the case in Louisiana, where subsidence has caused erosion and loss of wetlands. Without wetlands to act as buffers, the devastation of storms like Katrina is even greater.

By Henry Fountain, courtesy of the New York Times

For people who feel an acute unease about the future of the planet, a small but growing number of psychotherapists now offer a treatment designed to reduce worries as well as carbon footprints: ecopsychology.

By Gabrielle Glaser, courtesy of the New York Times

If two scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are correct, people will still be driving gasoline-powered cars 50 years from now, churning out heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — and yet that carbon dioxide will not contribute to global warming.

By Kenneth Chang, courtesy of the New York Times

What causes global warming and how to stop it.
An overview of climate change science and solutions.
From ABC News

ARLINGTON, Va. — This urban suburb of Washington seems well-prepared for a leading role in the green revolution embraced by hundreds of the nation’s cities, counties and towns.

By Felicity Barringer, courtesy of the New York Times

Defending his refusal to let California set limits on the greenhouse gas emissions of automobiles, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency insisted before a Senate committee Thursday that climate change posed no "compelling and extraordinary" risk to the state.

By Matthew L. Wald, courtesy of the New York Times

Lake Mead, the vast reservoir for the Colorado River water that sustains the fast-growing cities of Phoenix and Las Vegas, could lose water faster than previously thought and run dry within 13 years, according to a new study by scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

By Felicity Barringer, courtesy of the New York Times

The full emissions costs of producing biofuels are higher than those of producing of conventional fuels, scientists said.

By Elisabeth Rosenthal, courtesy of the New York Times

The persistent and dramatic decline in the snowpack of many mountains in the West is caused primarily by human-induced global warming and is not the result of natural variability in weather patterns, researchers reported yesterday.

By Marc Kaufman, courtesy of the Washington Post

Global warming ranks far down the concerns of the world's biggest companies, despite world leaders' hopes that they will pioneer solutions to the impending climate crisis, a startling survey will reveal this week.

By Tricia Holly Davis, Geoffrey Lean and Susie Mesure, courtesy of the UK Independent.