Canadian explorer David Barber discovers that trying to find multiyear ice in the Arctic can really fray the nerves.

The nascent solar power sector and the natural gas industry need to build an alliance to get more government support and take over the energy sector from incumbents like Big Oil and King Coal, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said on Wednesday.

The headline in the Gulf News English language daily reads ‘UAE tops world on per capita carbon footprint’.

For a place so reliably bathed in sunlight, the Dubai property explosion seems to have generated enough construction noise to drown out the environmental debate raging elsewhere in the world.
For the first-time visitor, the scale of the global construction superlatives [...]

Even if a deal is reached among political delegates at the upcoming United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen, it is unlikely to set out specific emission targets, says Mike Hulme.

“A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef eater in a Prius,” claims food writer Michael Pollan. Do the numbers add up?

Worried that a deadly typhoon in August may be a sign of global warming, Taiwan wants to join the U.N. Climate Convention in time for a big conference in December in Copenhagen. But it faces opposition from China, which claims sovereignty over the island.

A dead baby albatross is a tough act to follow. Nike’s Lorrie Vogel took the stage at Poptech this week to talk about the company’s sustainable product design efforts. But talk about a tough room!

Photographer Chris Jordan shares a sobering tale of his journey to Midway Atoll, where he captured horrifying images of baby birds killed by ingesting plastic from the Pacific Trash Gyre.

There is a void in understanding how to build consumer products that are truly sustainable. Designers must once again serve as great visionaries and re-imagine how humans interface with the natural world while they build necessities and luxuries that do not contaminate the elements of life: clean air, water and soil.

Remember the Christian Coalition of America?

Under the political operateive Ralph Reed in the 1990s it was an electoral force to be recokned with as it mobilised millions of conservative Christians to vote for mostly Republican Party candidates and causes.

Some politicians are starting to mention Copenhagen climate talks and stalled Doha trade talks in the same breath…a worrying sign of feared deadlock

In a new report, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab found that the cost of going solar fell by more than 30 percent from 1998 to 2008, dropping from $10.80 per watt to $7.50 per watt.

One travel company is ditching an offer of letting people pay to offset their greenhouse gas emissions, saying that’s the same as selling “medieval pardons”

While solar power has investors on Wall Street seeing green, countries in the developing world also see a bright future in solar technology.

Australian climate change activist Tim Flannery comes to Ottawa and lashes the Canadian government for not doing enough to combat the rise in greenhouse gas emissions.