climate

Blight at the Museum: Watch NWF’s Climate Capsule

An exhibit on evolution & climate at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History that doesn’t even mention manmade climate pollution or the current impacts of global warming? As we … Read more

Polluter-Funded Evolution & Climate Exhibit at the Smithsonian

A “scientific” exhibit ignoring the threat of global warming at the taxpayer-funded Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC? Reports The New Yorker: The David H. Koch Hall of … Read more

Your Mind Is The Scene Of The Climate: Watch NWF’s Climate Capsule

The National Wildlife Federation Climate Capsule team’s favorite summer movie was Inception. It got us to thinking, what if you could enter the dreams of Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Big … Read more

East Coast Cities Shatter Summer Heat Records

A National Wildlife Federation report last month warned global warming is fueling summer heat waves. Given that 2010 has been the hottest year on record so far globally, are this … Read more

Is An Underwater Nation Still A Nation?

As the sea swallows its shores, when does a country cease to be a country? That’s what the New York Times asks this week: If a country sinks beneath the … Read more

Extreme Heat in Summer 2010: A Window on the Future

Could the sweltering summer of 2010 be considered mild compared to the typical summers of the future? It depends on whether America & nations around the world act now to … Read more

National Academies Report Warns of Climate Emissions Crisis

This post was written by NWF climate scientist Dr. Amanda Staudt. As the US Senate prepares to consider clean energy and climate legislation, a new report lays out in novel … Read more

Tell President Obama: Wildlife Can’t Wait

Watch this video, then please take a moment to tell President Obama we need action on clean energy & carbon pollution limits now: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtbJjwuRiFg&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Read more

As Heat Waves Grip East Coast, Revisiting Climate Connection

Here in the Washington, DC area, we’re experiencing our second brutal heat wave of the summer — and summer’s only a few weeks old. As NPR reported, it’s part of … Read more

Oil Disaster Update, Hill Heat & Big Oil’s All-Star: Watch NWF’s Climate Capsule

In this week’s National Wildlife Federation Climate Capsule: NWF’s Jaime Matyas visits the disaster zone in Louisiana As the mercury rises on Capitol Hill, pressure builds for a clean energy … Read more