Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011
A pristine planet is never coming back, but that doesn't mean it can't become O.K.
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Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011
Expiration of federal subsidies could cripple a growing industry
Tuesday, Dec. 06, 2011
It's not easy to see what's around the energy bend, but here are hard if unexpected realities
Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011
The upcoming U.N. gathering in Durban will likely be a bust. Here's what we should do instead
Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011
Climate visionary Amory Lovins has an energy blueprint for America and it's a good one
Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011
Renewed controversy over the failed solar company Solyndra and Obama's billions in government subsidies for green tech misses the point: we need need to spend trillions more on renewable energy, and risks come with the territory
Tuesday, Nov. 08, 2011
In hard economic times, a global climate deal is less likely than ever
Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011
Energy poverty is only a piece of larger economic poverty, but it's one of the best ways out of it. The very least we can do is wake up to the fact that everyone deserves a light
Tuesday, Oct. 04, 2011
One of America's major political parties has, in effect, adopted climate-change denial as policy. How did this happen?
Tuesday, Sep. 27, 2011
The physical changes from global warming are visible in the Arctic almost in real time and they are a warning for those of us who live in more comfortable latitudes
Tuesday, Sep. 20, 2011
Al Gore asks the world to wake up before it's too late, but money and politics could spell doom
Tuesday, Sep. 13, 2011
A little-known government agency is figuring out how to make America green and rich
Tuesday, Sep. 06, 2011
Greens are mad at the President after he abandoned a promise to tighten air pollution regulations. But do environmentalists have anywhere else to go?
Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011
FoodCorps, a new national service organization and AmeriCorps partner, aims to fight obesity and diet-related disease through promoting school gardens and farm-to-school programs
Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011
By mining the Internet's massive volume of data, digital epidemiologists hope to identify disease outbreaks in real time and eliminate deadly epidemics before they start
Tuesday, Aug. 09, 2011
The South has suffered crippling droughts in the past, from the long dry stretch in 2007 to the multiyear Texas drought of the 1950s. But this time could be different and worse
Tuesday, Aug. 02, 2011
Hidden inside the debt negotiations, Republicans saw an opportunity to cut funding to the country's environmental agencies. It isn't the first time
Tuesday, Jul. 19, 2011
Military leadership on energy issues could pull the rest of the U.S. along
Tuesday, Jul. 12, 2011
Genetically modified fish isn't without its risks but neither is a crowded and hungry future
Wednesday, Jul. 06, 2011
Our irrational fear of sharks and growing appetite for them continues to threaten their survival
Tuesday, Jun. 28, 2011
Times have never been better for the large-scale solar industry, but they could get very bad very fast
Tuesday, Jun. 21, 2011
A group of marine researchers look at the state of ocean science and it's not pretty
Tuesday, Jun. 14, 2011
A growing number of conservation biologists are beginning to question whether we're fighting a losing battle by trying to get rid of invasive species
Tuesday, Jun. 07, 2011
How we perceive the risk that comes from a potential environmental or health threat and what we think should be done about it often has far more to with our political and cultural predispositions and biases than science
Tuesday, May. 31, 2011
Scouts Madison Vorva and Rhiannon Tomtishen are fighting to get the Girl Scouts to stop using non-sustainable palm oil in their cookies, and they're actually making progress