It’s All One World for Energy Concerns
A recent energy policy summit concluded what the Group of 8 powers are learning: The Third World may require help reducing heat-trapping gases.
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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?
Hotter Planet Means More Underweight Babies
If current projections of a warming planet prove accurate, researchers say the percentage of dangerously underweight newborns will increase significantly in the U.S. by the end of the century.
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.
To Manage Wildfires, Manage Change First
Humans have shown they're pretty much serial bunglers when it comes to managing fire, but some fire ecologists say that with global warming, mankind now really needs to learn how to manage change.
American Idling: The Ecological Cost of Keeping the Engine Running
The quick, simple act of turning your car off instead of idling whenever possible could play an enormous role in slowing the rate of climate change.
‘Deforest Fires’ Fan Global Warming
Deforestation has long been associated with global warming, but a new paper suggests the method of deforesting — intentionally burning — may be a terrifically potent climate changer, too.
Eating Creosote: A Poisonous Response to Climate Change
Genetic mutations are allowing woodrats to eat toxic creosote as climate change makes their preferred diet of juniper harder to find.
Keeping Cool With the Albedo Effect
The co-author of A Golden Thread: 2500 Years of Solar Architecture and Technology takes a look at how white backgrounds — be they snow, concrete or rooftops — might help bend back a little bit of global warming.