A report in the journal Science finds contraction of Greenland’s ice sheet is accelerating, as the binational Lake Titicaca Authority warns that water levels in the lake have fallen dangerously.
The Environmental Protection Agency has directed two of its lawyers to makes changes to a YouTube video they posted that is critical of the Obama administration’s climate change policy.
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The scientific community finally acknowledges that “biofuels” fuel deforestation—and thereby result in a net increase in greenhouse gas emissions.
World oil prices peaked at $147 per barrel one year ago today—but the geological determinism of the “peak oil” theorists ignores the global political struggle for control of oil.
Climatologists blasted the G8 resolution that global temperature should rise no more than 2°C by 2050 as “cavalier” acceptance of an increase that could still “challenge civilized society.”
The global financial crisis has pushed the ranks of the hungry to a record 1 billion people, a milestone that poses a threat to peace and security, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said.
A WHO study finds that non-motorists disproportionately bear the brunt of traffic fatalities. Car accidents are the world’s 10th leading cause of death, on track to become fifth by 2030.
Many developed nations will boycott a UN conference on the financial crisis, objecting to efforts by General Assembly president Miguel d’Escoto to discuss reforming the World Bank and IMF.
“What we are not doing—what I have no interest in doing—is running GM,” President Obama assured upon announcing the government’s large ownership stake in the reorganized General Motors.
President Obama announced plans for national fuel efficiency requirements aimed at conserving 1.8 billion barrels of oil and reducing emissions by 900 million metric tons.
President Obama’s Automotive Task Force has slashed Chrysler’s advertising budget as a condition of the company’s bankruptcy restructuring.
