Imagine you go to a conference on major bioethical questions — controversial issues like abortion, embryonic stem cells, assisted reproduction and euthanasia — and a keynote speaker uses all his allotted time warning about global warming. Is this the wrong issue to discuss — or the only one worth talking about?
The question arose at the [...]

New ideas are flourising online for tackling everything from conservation to global warming.

Life may be greener in the city than in the countryside, according to a new study of greenhouse gas emissions

Carbon dioxide emissions are rocketing, despite efforts to cut back, a study shows. What can the world do?

President George W. Bush upset some delegates at the United Nations by failing to mention “climate change” in his farewell speech

The planet may be slightly less messy by Monday: a “Clean up the World” campaign aims to clear up pollution this weekend.

                                               Native Alaskan artists visited New York this week with a message not so much about art, nor a species that’s struggling as rising temperatures melt its habitat from under its paws.
“With so much attention on polar bears, where’s the concern about the people? What about fellow Americans?” said Alvin Amason, an artist and member of [...]

A slight trend towards bigger sea ice around Antarctica may be a paradoxical sign of global warming, experts say.

California environmentalists are in tizzy this week, accusing Republican Vice Presidential candidate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin of telling their governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, how to do his job.
At issue is a letter Palin sent to Schwarzenegger last month, asking him to veto a bill that would raise shipping container fees to pay for pollution-reduction programs at three major California ports.
The letter, which Palin sent [...]

Would Sarah Palin’s views on environmental policy — favouring oil drilling and doubting a human cause of climate change — sway John McCain if he wins the presidency in November? A view from Kenai Fjords National Park.

More than 1,200 people have put in orders for their own Tesla Roadster, the all-electric sports car with an eye-popping price tag of $100,000. 
So far, only 27 have been delivered to customers.
Tesla disclosed this latest number in a press release on Tuesday, surprising those of us who remember the company’s chairman, Elon Musk, receiving his car in April.
That’s because for several [...]

Can carbon capture and storage (CCS) save the world?
Is this the silver bullet everyone’s been waiting for? Or just pie in the sky? Is capturing and storing carbon dioxide the technology breakthrough to cut greenhouse gas emissions without getting in the way of economic growth and industry’s “addiction” to fossil fuels? Or is it just [...]

A study suggests that the weather in Spain is worse at the weekends in summer than on weekdays. Is this true elsewhere?

After a decade of rampant destruction of the Mau forest water catchment in western Kenya, the country’s coalition government seems firmly united in trying to save the complex before more serious damage is inflicted on the economy.
U.N. officials say this is no longer simply an environmental issue but something that has huge importance for the whole country. Already two of the top three [...]

Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska, is doubtful about global warming: breaking with the concern expressed in the past by John McCain. Sound familiar?