Environment The Other “Cliff” The Kyoto protocol is about to expire and that two-week international conference on climate change did little to avert the looming crisis. Kevin Charles Fleming
Business & Economics Economics Previous Site Sections Accepting a Warming Planet Could Cool Urge To Go To War New psychological research suggests the shared threats posed by a changing climate may bring people together in a common cause. Tom Jacobs
Nature & Technology News in Brief Previous Site Sections Could Climate Change be the Epitome of Partisanship? Why the environment has been so conspicuously absent from this year's debates Michael Todd
Environment Smokin’ Election Campaign Quote of the Week No doubt assuming Americans are more concerned about high gasoline prices than long-term threats to the environment, neither… Tom Jacobs
Economics New Estimate for Climate Change-Related Casualties Released, Not Pretty. A European humanitarian aid consultancy, DARA, has released a study that claims to define the various ways that 100… Marc Herman
Environment Fox News Misleads Viewers on Climate Change A study of two Rupert Murdoch outlets shows broad bias. Tom Jacobs
Environment A Salty Solution to Global Warming There is no shortage of ideas bouncing around about what to do with our warming planet–switch to renewables, switch… Matt Skenazy
Environment The Cheapest Way to Fight Climate Change? Block Out the Sun This summer, the volume and extent of arctic sea ice fell to the lowest level on record; America… Matt Skenazy
Environment A Hotter World Won’t Automatically be a More Fiery World With 2012 on track to be the worst year on record for wildfires in the U.S.—although Isaac’s heavy… Michael Todd
Environment Polynesian Corals Say No to Diversity When it comes to the symbiotic relationship between reef-building corals and energy-producing algae, “the more the merrier” has… Trish Reynales