Soaring petrol prices and worries about global warming have convinced many motorists that now is the time to go green.
   
But if our heads have been won over, our hearts may take a little longer, to judge from a visit this week to the British International Motor Show in London.
    One stand, the Electric Vehicle Village, [...]

 Are gasoline and energy prices too high? What’s high enough? 
It may be a distinct miniority opinion, but if you were to ask me, I’d say I think they’re not high enough — and I sincerely hope they keep rising. It may be the only way the world wakes up to the perils of climate change [...]

When you think of sharks, do you hear the theme music to the 1970s horror flick “Jaws”?
If so, try diving with hundreds of them off South Africa’s east coast. My wife and I did so earlier this month and it was truly a mind-blowing experience.
Every year during the southern hemisphere winter, ragged-tooth sharks gather on the [...]

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Buenos Aires, Argentina, is on the iron-flat edge of a large river. It rains, but not that much. Winters are mild. The body-conscious people of this metropolitan area of 13 million people are generally fit and into sports. Lots of people can’t afford cars and squish into the cheap and overloaded [...]

Some commentators who doubt global warming wrongly say that carbon dioxide is not a greenhouse gas: their arguments are often nonsense, writes Stuart Gaffin of Columbia University.

It took Barack Obama a mere nine minutes into his first speech in Europe to tackle the issue of climate change — and end eight years of frustration about U.S. foot-dragging on global warming by the world’s number one emitter of greenhouse gases.

The U.S. presidential candidate got right to the point in Berlin when he [...]

When Americans think about cutting their carbon footprint, they change their light bulbs, turn down their thermostats and maybe leave their cars in the garage. But a new study says there’s another energy-gobbling gremlin on the domestic front and it’s probably scarfing down a junk-food cheeseburger right now. It’s the meat-rich, over-caloried, highly processed American [...]

Cow manure could be tapped to generate electricity, helping curb greenhouse gas emissions, a study by scientists in Texas shows.

Today, Reuters ran a story about the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports’ aggressive plan to slash pollutants — mostly exhaust from diesel engines — that have harmed air quality and contributed to health concerns in the local communities.  In implementing the plan, the ports have butted heads with some of the industries that they do business with, such as [...]

Eggs found in pen of “Lonesome George”, the only survivor of a species of Galapagos giant tortoise, show that he may finally be headed for fatherhood after years of spurning females of a similar species.

When Al Gore challenged the U.S. to produce all of its electricity from renewable sources in 10 years, his aggressive plan to combat climate change was pitted against another recently-unveiled proposal, from Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens, to reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil.
 Gore, a former Democratic vice president and Nobel Prize-winning crusader on climate change, announced his plan last week and [...]

The road to Kenya’s Tana River Delta from the Indian Ocean resort of Malindi is a lonely stretch of tarmac punctuated only by road blocks manned by armed police.
Few people from the outside world come this way.
Most foreign and local holidaymakers heading for the popular Lamu Islands prefer to fly rather than use the road.
On [...]

Stuart Gaffin is a climate researcher at Columbia University and a regular contributor with his blog “Exhausted Earth”. ThomsonReuters is not responsible for the content - the views are the author’s alone.
The recently deceased comedian George Carlin, had a popular routine involving ‘Al Sleet’ the ‘Hippy Dippy Weatherman.’ You can see versions of it on the [...]

The G5 is growing up.
Invited by then British Prime Minister Tony Blair to the 2005 Group of Eight summit in Gleneagles as diplomatic window dressing to show the global scope of climate change, Mexico, India, China, South Africa and Brazil were kept on the sidelines and told what they had agreed to after the event.
Two [...]

You know the wind is changing for renewables — so to speak — when the head of Europe’s biggest power producer becomes an advocate — and then even decides to reduce his own personal reliance on fossil fuels by powering and heating his new house with photovoltaic and geothermal energies.

Wulf Bernotat, the chief executive of [...]