Global Climate Change

Democracy Then: Portrait of Ousted Mohamed Nasheed in The Island President

Lucy Lawless, Xena Warrior Princess, Captures Oil-Drilling Ship

Lucy Lawless -- of Xena, Warrior Princess and Spartacus -- has taken over an Artic-bound, oil-drilling ship along with several other Greenpeace activists today. Lawless and the Greenpeace members boarded the Shell-contracted ship this morning, in hopes that their protest would keep it from leaving ... More >>

Called Anti-Science, Rightbloggers Reply That Science is a Liberal Plot

With the ascension of Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, and other GOP candidates who don't cotton to this evolution or climate change stuff, people have begun to ask if Republicans and conservatives are actually becoming hostile to science. It doesn't help that one of those people is Repu ... More >>

Rightbloggers Find the Lesson of the Japanese Disaster: We Need More Nuclear Power Plants! (Plus Obama Sux!)

Last week Japan was hit by earthquake, tsunami, and volcano. As the country tries to come back from this series of disasters, donations are pouring in from world citizens. Rightbloggers are doing their part, too. They're using the catastrophe as a teachable moment to explain that Obama sucks, glob ... More >>

Bin Laden Book Club: Terrorist's Recordings Recommend More Than Killing Americans

​Sunday's New York Times includes a somewhat original, overlooked take on the most infamous terrorist in the world, the still-not-caught Osama bin Laden, who released two new audio recordings over the weekend. The article, instead of the standard "Where's Waldo?", focuses on bin Laden's "wide- ... More >>

Katie Couric's Weather Report: All Wet (When It Comes to Climate Change)

Couric: Partly cloudyOn Monday night, Katie Couric swung from CBS's coverage of the oil spill to the Tennessee floods by saying she was moving "from a man-made disaster to a natural one." That's one big and unproven assumption. How does Couric know that the worst Tennessee flooding in history has no ... More >>

John Mackey and Whole Foods Profiled in The New Yorker

Dan Winters for the New YorkerJohn Mackey eats his vegetables, denies global warming​ You might remember the brouhaha when Whole Foods co-founder and CEO John Mackey came out against government-backed health care reform this summer. You may also recall the incident about two years ago when it ... More >>

McCain weighs in on Sarah Palin's cap

​The ongoing pissing match over Sarah Palin's inked-up gimme cap has a new combatant, now that John McCain has taken a stand. If you managed to miss this earth-shaking controversy, the Senator's former running mate was photographed in Hawaii wearing a McCain campaign sun visor with the logo bl ... More >>

The Shake Shacking of America; The Big Plate Revolution of New York

​Dale Hemmerdinger, the ex-MTA chairman and current landlord, is evicting Shamsher Wadud, who for many years owned the Indian restaurant Nirvana on the roof of the building next door. Wadud is broke and a Parkinson's sufferer, and claims his apartment is overrun by rodents. [NY Post] The Shak ... More >>

Two New Perspectives: How Locavores Are Getting It Wrong

If you're among those trying to eat locally and sustainably, you may have to rethink your strategy. Two recent editorial pieces offer new perspectives on eating green. According to a National Post article, eating global may be less harmful to the earth than eating local: "Locally grown food, in many ... More >>

Robin Thicke

If you're among those trying to eat locally and sustainably, you may have to rethink your strategy. Two recent editorial pieces offer new perspectives on eating green. According to a National Post article, eating global may be less harmful to the earth than eating local: "Locally grown food, in many ... More >>

SOUND OF MELTING ICE

DJ Spooky gives a voice to Arctic glaciers

Angus Third-Pounder Boosts Mickey D's Sales; Snyder's to Buy Utz

​Dr. Siegal's Cookie Diet involves eating six prepackaged cookies a day, plus one healthy "real" meal. Some 500,000 people have lost weight on the plan -- and how can you not on 800-1,000 calories a day? [NY Times] Snyder's of Hanover is planning to acquire potato chips producer Utz. Snyder's ... More >>

Rain, Rain, Go Away!

I'm sitting here in my solarium thinking there is something seriously screwed up about the weather. You can attribute it to something other than global climate change if you want, but this business of it raining every day is aggressively strange. And not steady rains, either, but instantaneous downp ... More >>

Daily Flog: Deregulate. Spread fear. Deregulate. Spread fear.

I'm sitting here in my solarium thinking there is something seriously screwed up about the weather. You can attribute it to something other than global climate change if you want, but this business of it raining every day is aggressively strange. And not steady rains, either, but instantaneous downp ... More >>

WCBS: Student Bloggers Are Students and Are Blogging

I'm sitting here in my solarium thinking there is something seriously screwed up about the weather. You can attribute it to something other than global climate change if you want, but this business of it raining every day is aggressively strange. And not steady rains, either, but instantaneous downp ... More >>

Columbia Ignores Peril

When Klaus Jacob talks, important people take action. Except the important people paying him.

Global Warming May Ruin NY's Super Delicious Tap Water: Report

When Klaus Jacob talks, important people take action. Except the important people paying him.

Test Tube Meat?

When Klaus Jacob talks, important people take action. Except the important people paying him.

Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff Steps Down

When Klaus Jacob talks, important people take action. Except the important people paying him.

Everything's Cool

When Klaus Jacob talks, important people take action. Except the important people paying him.

Winos to Global Warming: Thanks a Lot

When Klaus Jacob talks, important people take action. Except the important people paying him.

The Whole World in Our Hands

Activist fest takes on global warming, suburban sprawl and, as if war weren't enough, AIDS in Iraq

The Dark Side of Summer

Turn off your air conditioners. Take a cue from a camel. Lay off the ice cream. And other advice for surviving a 'heat island'

All Wet

Bloomberg's man Dan Doctoroff has an answer for rising seas: more coastal condos!

Gore and War Hawk Stump for Green Future

Bloomberg's man Dan Doctoroff has an answer for rising seas: more coastal condos!

The Director's Take

Davis Guggenheim captures the ideals of the 'former next president'

Al Gore and the Moral Imperative

Davis Guggenheim captures the ideals of the 'former next president'

Pledge Your Saturday Night to Al Gore

Nearly 100,000 promise to see 'An Inconvenient Truth'

Fahrenheit 2050

The man who would've been president warns of an imminent deep impact

'The Great Warming'

The man who would've been president warns of an imminent deep impact

Horoscope

The man who would've been president warns of an imminent deep impact

Storm Front

In global warming's kitchen, hurricanes love the heat

Follow the Money, Carefully

In global warming's kitchen, hurricanes love the heat

Polar Eclipse

Hey, remember when climate change was a swell idea? Coconuts were in the offing.

Bush's Mandate From Above

Hey, remember when climate change was a swell idea? Coconuts were in the offing.

Dean Takes Over

Blasted by the pundits, the Democrats' new party chair can't be all bad

The November Surprises

After a year-long campaign, America now discovers what the election was really about

Don't Give a Hoot. Don't Say, 'Pollute.'

After a year-long campaign, America now discovers what the election was really about

Divine Inspiration

The president blesses storm victims, calls forth wrath against Kerry

Perfect Storms

Perfect for wrecking any chance of economic recovery, that is

Stirring Up A Storm

Enviros hope 'The Day After Tomorrow' will change the climate regarding climate

Nation

Enviros hope 'The Day After Tomorrow' will change the climate regarding climate

The Climes They Are A-Changin'

The Indisputable Science of Global Warming

Smokestack Lightning

Online Trade in Greenhouse Gases Strikes Environment

Trading Gas

Polluters Fight Global Warming—and Government Regulation—With a New Market in Emissions Credits

Unnatural Disasters

How Humans Are Behind the Weather Weirdness

Greenwash

How Humans Are Behind the Weather Weirdness