In a press release this weekend, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) stressed the importance of coming to an international agreement on combating climate change, citing findings from the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) in Switzerland that demonstrate ice loss from the world’s glaciers is not only continuing unabated, but has in fact been [...]

With the second phase of the Kyoto Protocol just under way, European Commission (EC) ministers met recently to nail down post-2012 climate policies. The so-called 20-20-20 benchmark—reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 20% below 1990 levels, and producing 20% of all electricity from renewable sources, both by 2020—remains a cornerstone of EC efforts. As for [...]

Juliet Eilperin of the Washington Post observed that the March 3 report from the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) “arguing that recent climate change stems from natural causes” was developed by “23 authors from 15 nations, some of them not scientists.” The release of the report came in the middle of the 2008 [...]

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Today, it may not directly affect the physical and socioeconomic environment of the U.S. as much as it does some developing countries, but deforestation anywhere deserves some attention, and not just from tree huggers. It accounts for about one fifth of carbon dioxide emissions worldwide, after all, and a study from the WWF (World [...]

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New York Times; MSNBC
Since the conservation movement really got going in the 1960s, one of the most pressing issues has been that of control of the Colorado River watershed. The regions that depend on this watershed are many and varied, and cross several state lines. Due to the natural aridity of much [...]

Oft-hailed over the past few years as a panacea for our nation’s energy and agriculture woes, biofuel has had a tough week. According to two independent studies published in the journal Science yesterday, almost all of the biofuels used today actually emit more greenhouse gases than do fossil fuels if we count the “full emissions [...]

The British Government produced this climate challenge video for its citizens, I find it very interesting not so much for the content, but for the fact that the government put it out. As I watched the video (many of the same themes you may have seen from the film “An Inconvenient Truth”) I [...]

Who would have guessed that a Montana superintendent’s decision to cancel a high-school talk on climate change would have attracted such media attention? Kevin St. John, the superintendent of the Choteau, MT school system, didn’t when he nixed an in-school talk that Steven W. Running, a Nobel laureate and professor of ecology at the University [...]

News: Reuters
The arctic ice covering the Northwest Passage may finally be opening up in an alarming example of accelerated arctic ice melt. Positive affects may include shorter shipping routes for commerce that would otherwise use the Panama canal.