Wording Change Softens Global Warming Skeptics
New research finds Republicans scoff at "global warming," but are much more receptive to the notion of "climate change."
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New T.C. Boyle Book Shares Interests With Us
Novelist T.C Boyle’s new book, "When the Killing’s Done," uses California’s Channel Islands to delve into the thorny effort to restore lost habitats, a theme and a locale familiar to our readers.
Think Biomass, Not Natural Gas
John Lennon said imagining world peace is easy if you try. Imagining the energy makeup of a country four decades from now may be a little more difficult.
A Penny-a-Gallon Gas Tax?
Californians must start paying real costs at the pump, a bipartisan transportation group focused on national security says.
The Social Cost of Carbon
A requirement for cost/benefit analyses of federal rules has created — without any real public input — a very important number in deciding what to do about greenhouse gases.
The Human Causes of Unnatural Disaster
"Blowout in the Gulf," a new book by the late William Freudenburg and co-author Robert Gramling, exposes the arrogance of risk-taking in the oil business.
Can China Avoid Getting Stuck in Traffic?
Amid a frenzy of car buying, the Chinese are losing the race for traffic space, but it's not too late for them to take another road.
A Hiding Place for Nuclear Waste
A new film documenting Finland’s effort to seal away nuclear waste for the next 100 millennia asks how one predicts 100,000 years into the future.
Pollinating Local Is the New Buzz
An annual Woodstock for honeybees highlights one of the factors leading to the pollinators' decline in North America. Perhaps keeping bees at home is the solution.
Trumpeter Swans Try to Dodge a Bullet
Having survived an extinction scare a century ago, the world's largest waterfowl is stalked by the remnants of past shotgun blasts.