Greenhouse Gas

Europe forges ahead on tackling greenhouse gas emissions, but the U.S. wants to ground certain rules that affect its airlines.

Efforts at geoengineering to cool a warming planet are picking up steam.

Doing deals with the Russians to put a pipe under the North Sea gives Germany some flexibility in its post-nuclear future, but at what price?

Even without fancy new cars or fuels, technology now motoring off the drawing board will help you take that lead foot off the accelerator and start driving green.

In car-crazy Australia, soft measures are turning the tide in the hard battle to reduce the number of basically empty cars on the road.

Although lots of places in the United States sample bits and pieces of transportation management, Bellingham, Wash., shows what can happen by taking on the full program.

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.

How exactly is the U.S. federal government leading by example on reducing greenhouse gas emissions? A collection of reports lists a zillion specific items, from double-sided printing to thousands of solar panels.

There's been some heavy breathing from several states on the U.S. administration's plans to regulate greenhouse gases, and their bluster may butt up against White House bluffing.

A mile-and-a-half-long ice cube tells a story about Earth's climate.

At the tail end of Baja California, our Kiri blogger learns the perils of attacking global environmental issues as if they exist alone.

A picturesque Baja town has been hammered repeatedly by the escalating tempo of flooding from tropical storms.

The "meager targets" of the House energy bill suggest some hot air on greenhouse gases, as we learned in mischaracterizing the House energy bill of 2009.

The status quo guarantees future dominance of fossil fuels, according to an authoritative government projection.

Two new studies show that the effects of changing climate are with us regardless of where governments or public opinion stand.

As the need to measure carbon absorption takes on global political and environmental import, researchers are rushing to resurrect a project that literally crashed and sank.

Researchers studying a mashup of existing data are tracking exactly where carbon is entering — and exiting — the atmosphere.