Global warming is unquestionably the most pressing environmental issue facing whoever ends up in the White House in January 2009. Not only does climate change impact -- and in most cases exacerbate -- other environmental problems, it has even wider implications for the economy and society at large. Luckily for all of us, both Barack Obama and John McCain are committed to tackling climate change, although their proposed approaches differ in significant ways.
Earlier in February I wrote about an obscure California law, the Solar Shade Control Act (.PDF), passed in 1979 after the Oil Crisis. The law essentially made criminals out of a pair of Sunnyvale residents, whose eight redwood trees cast shade on a neighbor's solar panels.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, under fire for apparently discounting the impact of climate change, on Thursday said global warming poses real risk to human health and the American way of life.
Have you ever wondered if you could find a way to save money on electric bills and at the same time decrease pollution? What if I told you that I have the answer that you have been looking for?
During the European heat wave of 2003 that killed tens of thousands, the temperature in parts of France hit 104 degrees. Nearly 15,000 people died in that country alone. During the Chicago heat wave of 1995, the mercury spiked at 106 and about 600 people died.
On Monday, the Met Office Hadely Center, British Antarctic Survey, and the U.K. government released a Google Earth application that shows the effects of climate change over the next 100 years.
The Bush administration on Wednesday declared the polar bear a threatened species, saying it must be protected because of the decline in Arctic sea ice from global warming. But activists were quick to criticize the ruling, saying it was full of loopholes.
The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached a record high, according to new figures that renew fears that climate change could begin to slide out of control.
Apple's been criticized in the past for its lack of "greenness," but when it launched the MacBook Air it made plenty of statements about how its newest computer was so much greener than previous models. ClimateCounts.org begs to differ, at least when looking at Apple overall.
CHINA only has enough coal for 12 days of consumption, three days less than a month ago, state media reported Wednesday, sounding the alarm bells over the nation's most important source of energy.
A coalition of states is suing the Bush administration to force it to comply with a Supreme Court ruling that rebuked what justices called inaction on global warming.
On Saturday, as Google likes to do on "special occasions," Google changed not just its logo, but its entire home page to demonstrate support for "Earth Hour." They changed their webpage to have a completely black background. Ironically, a study has shown that a completely black webpage actually uses more power. Of course, whether or not that's really true - well, read on.
You'd think that after Katrina and other disasters Bush would have a better speech prepared. Or perhaps this is just another example of what happens when Bush tries to ad-lib. "Life is unfair" comes across as somewhat callous, to be honest.
