China’s Climate Change Plan Raises Questions
By EDWARD WONG
Analysts and policy advisers wonder if the climate accord reached by the U.S. and China goes far enough, and how Beijing will meet its targets.
Efforts to save the pirarucu, one of the world’s largest freshwater fish, have been a success while offering a strategy for fending off a broader freshwater extinction crisis.
Analysts and policy advisers wonder if the climate accord reached by the U.S. and China goes far enough, and how Beijing will meet its targets.
The emissions targets announced by President Obama and the Chinese leader are expected to be at the heart of a 2015 international climate treaty.
Evolution has come up with many strategies for successful mating. For one kind of marine crustacean, that means a game of cat and mouse with mates and competitors.
Federal officials granted protection to the Gunnison sage grouse on Wednesday, a move that could bring restrictions on oil and gas drilling and other activity to preserve the bird’s habitat in areas of Colorado and Utah.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, an accumulation of the gooey bodies at the bottom of the ocean draws scavengers and is a key part of the food chain.
The Salton Sea, a briny lake created by a mismanaged effort to divert a river, has become a key habitat for migrating birds and is now in danger of drying out.
Denmark is pursuing the world’s most ambitious policy against climate change, but conventional electricity remains a problematic part of the mix.
It’s called geoengineering, and its possibilities, like reflective droplets in the sky and rocks that remove carbon dioxide, are gaining momentum.
A $20.5 million land purchase near San Antonio will keep the runway for 20 million Mexican free-tail bats clear of human neighbors.
The restoration of the gray wolf population in several Western states has put various factions at odds, each claiming to carry the banner of equity.
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.
The science of global warming is too important to trivialize.