For E.U. Climate Meeting, Deep Divisions and High Stakes
By JAMES KANTER
Curbing emissions has long been a popular cause in the European Union. But leaders have to agree on how to generate and distribute energy.
Originally conceived by campaigners at the World Wildlife Fund, the initiative uses bulk purchasing power to allow for discounts on home systems.
Curbing emissions has long been a popular cause in the European Union. But leaders have to agree on how to generate and distribute energy.
Electricity demand has not met projections, but the cost of upgrading coal-burning plants makes this an opportune moment for the reactor to arrive.
The Pentagon on Monday released a report asserting that climate change poses an immediate threat to national security, with increased risks from terrorism, infectious disease, global poverty and food shortages.
Scientists have probably underestimated warming since the 1970s, a study says. That could affect some climate change measures.
A group of writers recently made the trek to the summit of an unnamed mountain for a minor act of civil disobedience: a ceremony to name it for Thoreau.
It’s estimated that over 30,000 Pacific walruses have amassed on an Alaska beach, a development tied to the loss of sea ice and a changing climate.
There are now twice as many wild horses in the West as federal land managers say the land can sustain, and the system for keeping them under control is on the verge of crisis.
Five groups of researchers analyzing last year’s Australian heat waves came to the same conclusion: They could not have been as severe without human influence.
Several years ago, beekeepers were vexed: Honeybees, those versatile workhorses of pollination, were vanishing by the millions.
A new analysis of sea levels and flood risk around the world offers more evidence that the brunt of climate change will not be borne equally.
A quixotic historian tries to hold oil and gas companies responsible for Louisiana’s disappearing coast.
A visit to the Aller-Leine-Tal, one of many energy cooperatives that have contributed to the success so far of Germany’s Energiewende, or energy transition.
The small German island of Heligoland, a popular tourist destination, is undergoing dramatic change as the wind industry takes over.
Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny, the World Health Organization’s assistant director general, announced that the agency would endorse the use of drugs untested in humans to combat the Ebola virus in West Africa.
When Australia’s signature mammal walks, its tail works like a fifth leg.
Colony collapse may be over, but the pollination squad needs help.