U.S. Defense Review Serious About Climate Change
National security blueprint finds climate change "inextricably" linked to energy and economic concerns.
There’s No Negotiating With Nature
Two new studies show that the effects of changing climate are with us regardless of where governments or public opinion stand.
A Rock That Helps Out In a Hard Place
If only some incredibly common rock would just sit around and suck up carbon dioxide all day. Oh, there is one. Why aren't we excited about it?
War Games Start to Include Climate Change
U.S. military and intelligence officials are factoring the symptoms of climate change into their estimates of where and what kind of conflicts are in store.
Big Step Forward Lost in Shuffle
The U.S. government's regulatory focus on automobile fuel efficiency and emission reduction is very big news.
The Kindle Revolution May Take a Later Train
The Kindle and its kin, like the newly announced Sony e-readers, will undoubtedly change the face of publishing in time, but the Delphic pronouncements of its partisans may be a tad overblown.
Media Cool to Linking Wildfires, Climate Change
In the wake of some devastating blazes, Sam Kornell asks why few major media properties have explored the connection between the changing complexion of wildfires and climate change.
Coffee Won’t Keep Your Conscience Up at Night
Is fancy-schmancy, fair-trade, shade-grown, bird-friendly, etc., etc., specialty coffee better for the planet's climate, too?
Expect Insurance Rates to Get Hot, Hot, Hot
Climate change is likely to raise more than just the world's temperature — changing conditions in the Western U.S. leading to more and more severe wildfires will raise insurance rates, too.
Is White the New Green?
Three California energy experts make a convincing -- and sincere -- case that painting roofs white in the hot parts of the planet could offset the greenhouse gas woes caused by the world's cars