Conservation

Al Gore To Speak On National Challenge On Energy And Climate

Al Gore, chairman of the Alliance for Climate Protection, helped launch in March a multi-year, multi-faceted campaign designed to engage the American public and ignite a movement to address one … Read more

Reversing the Paradigm and Cutting Emissions

Peter Darbee, CEO of Pacific Gas and Electric, has given a great online interview. Peter highlights that the utilities like PG&E that have reversed the paradigm of how they reach … Read more

Write It! Wear It! Snap It! Boast It! for Public Lands

The National Wildlife Federation needs your help to give us a catchy slogan for Our Public Lands web site. This contest will run until the fall of 2008 and will … Read more

Head of IPCC Warns That We Need to Act Now

Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the Nobel-Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said Friday that "only seven years remained for stabilising emissions of global-warming gases at a level widely … Read more

Can Democracy Catch Up to Climate Science?

When he first appeared before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Dr. James E. Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, brought alarming findings from a three-dimensional … Read more

Climate Change Decimating the North Pole

The North Pole could be ice-free for the first time in human history this summer. Scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado say that because … Read more

Create a Wiki, Go Green For a Year!

Wetpaint, one of the most respected Wiki hosting sites, is offering an awesome, green reward for it’s one millionth site creator. For those of you who haven’t created a wiki … Read more

On Global Warming and the Catastrophic Flooding in the Central U.S.

As so many grapple with catastrophic flooding in the central United States, my thoughts and prayers are with those in harm’s way. The big picture is that global warming is … Read more

Joint Science Academies’ Statement Highlights Mounting Urgency

A new, landmark statement from the United States National Academy of Sciences and the science academies of 12 other nations was recently released.  The statement, entitled Joint Science Academies’ Statement: … Read more

Bush Admin Gives Big Oil “Blank Check to Harass the Polar Bear”

From the Associated Press: Less than a month after declaring polar bears a threatened species because of global warming, the Bush administration is giving oil companies permission to annoy and … Read more