All Global Warming
Farmers have a beef with plant- or lab-grown 鈥榤eat.鈥� Should you care?How we speak can say a lot about how we think聽鈥嬧�撀燼nd it can influence how we spend. Consider a rancher-led battle over food labels, where 鈥榩lant-based meat鈥� is either an oxymoron or cutting-edge Earth-friendly cuisine.
Antarctica is actually gaining ice, says NASA. Is global warming over?Not really, scientists say. But new study results show the fallibility of current climate change measuring tools and challenges current theories about the causes of sea level rise.
Electric 'robocabs': Key to curbing vehicle emissions?Driverless cars are coming, but overhauling a single niche sector like taxi cabs could be cost-effective and good for the environment, according to a new study
Why Rick Santorum doesn't want Pope Francis talking about climate changeIn an interview on a Philadelphia radio show Monday, Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum criticized the pope鈥檚 vocal stance on climate change and the environment.
Cities may be leaking more heat-trapping methane than previously thoughtA new approach to measuring methane leaks revealed that the Boston area alone lost enough natural gas during one year to fuel 200,000 homes.
2014 warmest year on record: Will 2015 top it?Preliminary estimates indicate that 2014 was a record-breaker, despite the lack of an El Ni帽o and a slowdown in the pace of warming during the first part of the 21st century.
People's Climate March draws 300,000 to ManhattanThousands of climate change activists and others gathered in Manhattan Sunday for the People鈥檚 Climate March. It came just before the UN鈥檚 Climate Summit, expected to draw nearly 100 heads of state.
Cover StoryClimate change chief dossier: 海角大神a FigueresUN climate change chief 海角大神a Figueres is a聽long distance runner and constant traveler who calls wherever she is "home." Here is a thumbnail profile.
Cover StoryClimate change summitry's force of nature: 海角大神a FigueresHow UN climate change chief 海角大神a Figueres became a fierce crusader to lower Earth's thermostat. A visceral connection to the planet 鈥� from the now-extinct golden toads of her childhood in the Costa Rican jungle to shrinking glaciers 鈥� moves her to tears.
People鈥檚 Climate March aims to be biggest rally yet on global warmingThe People鈥檚 Climate March, scheduled for Sunday in New York and featuring everything from noisemakers to an ark, will take place just days before world leaders gather there to address global warming concerns at the UN Climate Summit.
Michigan Senate race: Can outsider millions make climate change an issue?Outside groups backed by the Koch brothers on the right and environmentalist billionaire Tom Steyer on the left are pumping millions into a race that tests whether climate issues can play well for Democrats in moderate states.
Behind Ohio drinking-water ban, a Lake Erie mysteryUnsafe levels of toxins in drinking water in northwest Ohio are linked to algae blooms in Lake Erie. The blooms are fed by agricultural runoff, but that's not the full story.
NASA to launch replacement global warming satelliteFive years after losing its first satellite designed to measure carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, NASA is finally launching a replacement.
Global warming to disrupt US economy by mid-century, report findsCosts of economic disruption from global warming are likely to total hundreds of billions of dollars by 2050, a new risk assessment finds. The bipartisan report tallies losses to four sectors of the US economy.
FocusGlobal warming: Can post-Kyoto climate pact work by taking a different tack?Previous agreements to restrict greenhouse-gas emissions, including Kyoto, have largely failed. To curb global warming, negotiators are hoping countries will design and enforce their own cuts.
Monitor BreakfastObama's clean-energy push, new EPA rule will prevail, predicts Podesta'We're committed to getting this done,' the White House's John Podesta said Friday of a new EPA proposal to limit carbon emissions from power plants. A business report showing a hit to the US economy contained 'fantasy job loss numbers,' he said.
Costs to counter global warming 'relatively modest'Shift from fossil fuels to low-carbon energy would cut consumption growth by only 0.06 percentage points per year, says IPCC chairman. Nuclear power and carbon-capture plants would supplement solar and wind in fight to contain climate change.
How taking the 'perma' out of permafrost could accelerate global warmingAs permafrost thaws, it changes the composition of vegetation in the Arctic. This could accelerate global warming, say scientists
Obama sidesteps Congress to curb methane emissionsThe latest step in the White House's new Climate Action Plan is a new plan to curb methane, a far more potent trapper of heat than carbon dioxide. The plan relies heavily on cooperation with oil, gas, and dairy industries.
Climate change makes salamanders shrink, scientists sayA warmer and drier climate is likely causing wild salamanders in North America to shrink, say scientists.
