Why is it, when 97 percent of American scientists (and most of their peers worldwide) have no doubt that the Earth’s climate is changing and largely because of us humans, that only about half of us are “very sure” that it’s happening?
How can we combat climate change deniers who stand to lose the most when we all wake up to serious damage they’re doing to the planet?
When you see pictures of rubble from the tornadoes that ravaged Joplin, Missouri, you should not wonder:
Is this somehow related to the huge tornado outbreak in Alabama …
The tornado in Massachusetts only adds to the concern as to what’s happening to the weather and other things that affect us all at home and abroad.
Most think of Arctic melting as an unfolding disaster, many governments and corporations see it as a great opportunity to drill for oil and mine for resources.
“Even those who deny the existence of global climate change are having trouble dismissing the evidence of the last year,” writes Sharon Begley.
TV crews happened to be on the scene, Tuesday afternoon, when a dramatic cat rescue took place in the tornado-ravaged town of Joplin, Missouri.
Arctic ice is now melting so fast that sea levels around the planet can be expected to rise by more than 5 feet by the end of this century.
The price for Arabica coffee beans has hit a 13-year high and is still climbing. The underlying problem is that coffee crops are in trouble.
For many of us, maybe most of us, our relationship to the planet is inseparable from our relationship to the animals. So on this Earth Day, let’s not forget the animals.
There’s more to Yellowstone than fabulous views. It is a supervolcano that, when it next blows, will bring an end to the U.S. as we know it.
The idea of Daylight Saving Time started with Benjamin Franklin, but in his mind it wasn’t a serious proposal. In a letter written in 1784 to…
A new study of the effects of climate change on life all across the planet reaffirms that we are heading toward the mass extinction of species.
Her drive to protect the environment around her hometown of West Oakland, CA, has earned Margaret Gordon the $100,000 Purpose Prize Award
As the biggest summer storm on record slams into Australia, the U.S. is battered by a huge winter storm with record amounts of snow across the continent
A polar bear swims 426 miles non-stop for nine consecutive days in search of food – a record beyond anything ever seen or imagined. Why won’t the federal government list polar bears as endangered?
It’s been snowing in at least 49 states. What’s up? More headline stories about the environment in “This Week in Green”
There are lots of theories about why birds have been falling out of the sky. But while it’s surely sad for the birds, what’s happening is small potatoes compared to what else is happening to animals around the nation and beyond
The Dalai Lama tells the U.S. that climate change in the Himalayas is more urgent than his nation’s political concerns with China
Like never before, the world is one connected whole. Climate change causes crop failures, creating suffering to millions of people. This and lots more from This Week in Green