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2/4/2013
The population of Philippine cockatoos on Rasa Island is booming. With the help of conservationists the population has gone from 25 individuals in 1998 to 250 today, representing a quarter of the world's total population (approximately 1,000 ...
6/3/2013
A North Carolina banana is small but sweet. About half the size of its Costa Rican counterpart, it grows from a single tree in Chatham County. There it winters inside a building at the Plant in Pittsboro. After the April frost, it sunbathes in ...
14/2/2013
Sen. Barbara Boxer on Thursday put her political muscle behind a bill that would tax carbon and methane emissions linked to global warming and use the money for consumer rebates and to finance a raft of new clean-energy projects.
The ...
12/1/2013
For most climate experts, news that 2012 was the hottest year on record for the lower 48 states gave fresh urgency to the need to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
Many House Republicans have long resisted such steps, and Rep. Joe Barton of ...
31/10/2012
Green Party Presidential Candidate Dr. Jill Stein has been detained while resupplying Keystone XL tree sitters.
As Hurricane Sandy pushes further inland to
devastate Appalachia and Canada, three women from New England, including Green ...
31/10/2012
A proposed Puget Sound terminal that would ship millions of tons of
coal to Asia drew opposition from most speakers Oct. 27, with many opponents at a public meeting calling for a broader
environmental impact statement analyzing impacts stretching ...
29/8/2012
- It is a time of extreme heat and anxiety in Sri Lanka. Even the rains last week felt like a sudden burst of cold water on the smouldering asbestos sheets on most Sri Lankan household roofs, creating a blast of cold air before the heat returns ...
29/8/2011
On the tenth day of a protest wave that has been gaining momentum since Aug. 20 and will continue until Sep. 3, nearly 300 people gathered in Lafayette Park directly across from the White House in Washington D.C., chanting, "When I say 'tar ...
22/7/2011
An industry leader joined a union chief and political luminaries in West Virginia in a sustained chorus of boos directed Thursday at billionaire New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg`s hefty gift to an
environmental group bent on wiping out the
coal ...
10/5/2011
The Pascua River in Patagonia - Chile plans to dam the river to generate electricity.Chilean authorities have approved a £1.8bn plan to dam two rivers in Patagonia for hydroelectricity, triggering angry protests and claims that swathes of ...
6/2/2011
The day after President Obama delivered his second State of the Union address last week, dozens of Web sites turned it into a "word cloud," graphically showing the relative frequency with which particular words appeared. One such cloud-seeding ...
27/1/2011
A West Virginia Republican filed a bipartisan House bill yesterday that would prevent U.S. EPA from retroactively vetoing water permits as it did earlier this month, blocking the largest-ever proposed mountaintop
coal mine in ...
2/1/2011
Gov. Chris Christie's statement a few weeks back that he's skeptical about the science behind climate change is a major shift and will hinder New Jersey's economic viability when it comes to green technologies. His statement at a town hall ...
21/12/2010
Earlier this month, as Sydney's financial district hummed during the early-morning rush hour, Greenpeace activists unfurled a banner outside of ANZ Bank that read, "ANZ Polluting Your World."It sought to saddle the bank with a bad ...
10/12/2010
The UN Climate Conference (COP16) in Cancun is turning out to be both anti-climactic and anti-climatic.
There will be no major agreement to stop global warming this week, despite the timed release of a number of reports that show that ...
15/11/2010
Gov. Chris Christie's recent statement that he's skeptical about the science behind climate change is a major shift and will hinder New Jersey's economic viability when it comes to green technologies. His statement last week at a town hall ...
26/10/2010
In a nail-biting year for many congressional hopefuls, Indiana Republican Dan Coats is an outlier -- poised to easily reclaim the Senate seat he held for most of the 1990s despite a five-year lobbying stint that left Democrats eager to paint him ...
6/10/2010
West Virginia, at the direction of Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin, sued the Obama administration today to overturn new federal rules on mountaintop removal mining.
The lawsuit, filed by the state Department of
Environmental Protection, ...
21/9/2010
The chairwoman of the state's
Environmental Improvement Board took issue Tuesday with allegations that some members of the panel have a conflict of interest in considering a state proposal for the regulations of greenhouse gas ...
26/8/2010
It doesn't take a climate scientist to realize July 2010 was a hot month in Nashville. You stepped outside, right? For some, the heat was a nuisance, like skin sticking to hot leather seats. For others, it was as serious as sunstroke. But just ...
9/6/2010
A tour of Dimock, Pennsylvania, with Victoria Switzer is a bumpy ride over torn-up roads, around parking lots filled with heavy machinery and storage tanks, and past well pads that not long ago were forests. The winter here was quiet, but with ...
4/5/2010
As oil seeps into the
environmentally and economically critical Gulf of Mexico following an explosion on a rig there two weeks ago, some groups are saying this catastrophe should mark the end of offshore drilling for oil - and be a "clarion call" ...
3/3/2010
President Barack Obama’s top
environmental regulator will testify before Congress today amid growing opposition to her agency’s proposed limits on the pollution linked to climate change.
Lisa Jackson, head of the
Environmental Protection ...
14/10/2009
Across the USA, power plants are turning to wood to make electricity. The move is spurred by state mandates to encourage renewable power and by bills moving through Congress that require more renewable electricity nationwide.
Wood ...
13/8/2009
XUNLIGHT CORPORATION, a small manufacturer of solar panels, sits on a quiet street in Toledo. It has a professor as its president, about 100 employees on its payroll--and a lot of bigwig visitors. In October 2008 Sarah Palin, then the Republican ...