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
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Greenhouse Gas
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Protect a Levee, Protect the World
A method of buttressing California's aging levees shows promise for capturing carbon dioxide.
Putting Corporations on the Carbon Scale
Mike Wallace helps climate-savvy investors determine whether companies will prosper or shrivel as carbon dioxide regulation becomes reality.
Burning Down the House to Keep Warm
Only a fool would support expanded domestic exploration — offshore or elsewhere — under the Bush administration's dysfunctional energy policies. Here's how those policies need to change for America to responsibly find the energy it needs.
Ecologist Dismisses ‘Ethanol Solution’
Townsend notes that producing corn for ethanol use requires intensively fertilized fields, which produce 'the forgotten greenhouse gas.'
A Really Inconvenient Truth
The climate problem can be solved. But tackling it is going to be a lot harder than you've been led to believe.
States’ Action and Climate Change
Individual states are taking occasionally painful steps to rein in emissions.
Reducing Big Problem With Little Hydro Plants
Hydropower will never be the complete answer to emissions-free energy production in the U.S., but a strong case can be made for it becoming a useful part of the answer.
Smokey’s Legacy: Are Forests Contributing to Climate Change?
While it's widely acknowledged that forests can be useful for holding carbon, they release phenomenal amounts of greenhouse gases when they burn.