Activist tries to sue world leaders for $1 billion for causing global warming

Vatican gets solar power system: something for the White House too?

Climate change, rather than human hunters, drove the cave bear to extinction in the last Ice Age

Bloggers in Africa are sounding off about genetically modified foods

New York’s famed Broadway lights are getting a green tint. Not literally, of course, but this week the Big Apple’s iconic theaters vowed to make their “Great White Way” shine with more energy efficient bulbs.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said on Tuesday that several leading scientists have called on Florida Governor Charlie Crist to curtail the commercial hunting of freshwater turtles in his state.

“Florida’s freshwater turtles are being harvested at an unsustainable rate to supply East Asian food and medicinal markets. New rules recently implemented by the [...]

The car is king in Southern California, so what better place for stressed out auto executives to blow off some steam and take a break from their considerable recent troubles?

SolarWorld chief executive Frank Asbeck raised eyebrows by announcing plans to bid for the German plants of General Motors’ Opel unit.
Here was a small 10-year-old company specialising in producing photovoltaic systems with 2,000 employees and annual sales of 700 million euros preparing the stage for a seemingly audacious takeover of a legendary 146-year-old German company [...]

There’s more bad news on the fish front.
According to a new report the advocacy group California Trout, 65 percent of the state’s native salmon, steelhead and trout species may be extinct within the next century. To see the whole report click here. It was written by Dr. Peter Moyle of the University of California, Davis.
“The [...]

The economic downturn may mean a hiatus for some industrial polluters but the corollary is that carbon is about to get a whole lot cheaper.

Use of SUVs by some U.N. staff in Nairobi is rankling some bloggers when the U.N. is telling everyone to cut CO2 emissions.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
If Pakistan is to dig itself out of its current crisis it needs two things to happen.  It needs strong economic growth to tackle poverty and undercut the appeal of hardline Islamists; and it needs peace with India if it is to permanently cut its ties with militants it has traditionally seen as a reserve force to be used [...]

California’s already in the vanguard on U.S. carbon reduction (well, planning so far), and now Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to be ready for rising sea levels.
 On Friday he ordered the state to study how high waters could rise and what to do about it, in an executive order which could be seen as the Cliffs Notes of why climate change is a [...]

A Canadian scientist wants tourists to help her to track polar bears by taking pictures of their “whisker prints”.

Greenhouse gases might turn from villains to saviours of the planet — but only in 10,000 to 100,000 years time, a study shows