Much of the world wants to speed up in the race against damaging effects of climate change, but they can’t do it without the United States, which has hit yet another snag on the road to climate legislation.

The massive oil slick off the Gulf of Mexico is posing a major threat not just to wildlife and the wetlands region, but also the economy. By Professor Willy Bemis of Shoals Marine Laboratory and Cornell University.

Perhaps the kerfuffle over climate and immigration reform is the dust storm we’ve all been waiting for, argues Asher Miller, executive director of the Post Carbon Institute.

BP welcomed an offer from the U.S. Defense Department to help
contain a massive oil slick from a deadly rig explosion that threatens the shorelines of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Here is a map showing the latest oil spill forecast.

The days of sustainability strategies being recycling bins in the office and printing on both sides of the printer paper are increasingly behind us. Here are 10 trends in sustainable business happening now around the world, by Giselle Weybrecht.

Over at Edge, a variety of scientists give their take on the Iceland volcano eruption and its impact on air travel. Two really stood out to me. The first also highlights the problem of defensive medicine; the second shows the downside to action dealing with global warming.

Will consumers be buying hybrid-electric cars like today’s Toyota Prius and Ford Escape for the next few decades or are the hybrids just a milestone on the road to all-electric vehicles?
The answer to that question may come down to two words: Range anxiety.

Kumi Naidoo, Greenpeace’s International Executive Director, sat down with Reuters in San Francisco and chatted about the US Senate climate bill and where the non-profit is focusing its campaigning energies.

Nature is full of inspiration for technologies that are both energy-efficient and eco-friendly. Professor Gunter Pauli explores 100 innovations and unique business models meant to inspire entrepreneurs to engage in a sustainable, socially responsible “Blue Economy”.

Innovation #1 explored by Gunter Pauli in the ZERI Foundation’s two-year project: The Blue Economy, the the self cleansing vortex in rivers provides one solution to treating water without the extensive use of chemicals and energy-intensive technologies.

Forty years of environmental successes should inspire a generation to build a clean energy economy – it’s good for global warming and good for the bottom line, writes Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club.

Bolivia seeks to combat global warming after world leaders fell short at a summit in Copenhagen: President Evo Morales stages an alternative “World People’s Conference on Climate Change”.

EU studies have sowed doubt about biofuels’ green credentials. But will the EU change its biofuels targets, or just gloss over the evidence?

Greenhouse gas emissions by industrialized nations fell by 2.2 percent in 2008, a Reuters compilation shows. Here is a breakdown of official national emissions data submitted to the U.N.

Robin Rigg Offshore Wind Farm, UK. April 2010.