The New York Times – Environment | by Justin Gillis | September 20, 2010 This year’s extreme heat is putting the world’s coral reefs under such severe stress that scientists fear widespread die-offs, endangering not only the richest ecosystems in the ocean but also fisheries that feed millions of people. Read on:
By Mark Hertsgaard | Wired Science | April 26, 2010 | 6:28 pm John Williams has been making wine in California’s Napa Valley for nearly 30 years, and he farms so ecologically that his peers call him Mr. Green. But if you ask him how climate change will affect Napa’s world famous wines, he gets [...]
By Daniel Roth | Wired May 2010 | April 19, 2010 | 12:00 pm It’s late November 2009, and US energy secretary Steven Chu is leaning against a fake sink in a fake kitchen. Chu is 62 years old and athletically trim with graying black hair. He’s wearing a rumpled pin-striped suit, argyle socks, and [...]
By Bill McKibben – Guest Columnist | OregonLive.com | March 02, 2010, 5:00AM In recent years, every major scientific body in the world has produced reports confirming the peril of climate change. All 15 of the warmest years on record have come in the last two decades. And Earth’s major natural systems are all showing [...]
By Tia Ghose | Wired Science | February 15, 2010 The California coast has seen fewer foggy days in the last century, threatening the health of the region’s majestic redwood trees. Over the last century, new research suggests the average daily fog has decreased more than three hours, causing the coast redwoods to lose more [...]
by Robert McClure in Dateline Earth/InvestigateWEST | February 8, 2010 I’ve always been just a hair skeptical about all those admonitions to consumers to save the world — you know, the “Live simply, that others may simply live”-type instructions. They felt a little too much like guilt-tripping to me, with perhaps not enough corresponding actual [...]
Carbon offsets reflect the tendency of environmentalism to act like a new religion. Remember European history about the buying and selling of indulgences? But there can be good sense in donating to atone for our offenses against the environment. By Anthony B. Robinson | Crosscut.com | February 5, 2010 The other day I, half-joking, told [...]
By Faiz Shakir, The Progress Report. Posted December 10, 2009. This story was written by Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Zaid Jilani, and Alex Seitz-Wald. As delegates from countries across the globe gather at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, the world is waiting to see if international leaders will [...]