The 2010 Reuters Canadian Oil Sands Summit will take place March 22-23 in Calgary, Alberta.

How should we prepare for the unknown catastrophe - how should we manage catastrophic risks? In our daily lives we tend to weigh risks by their probability of occurrence. In this view, a 10 percent risk of losing your home is half as important as a 20 percent risk.

A pilot program is underway in Chile to install solar water heaters in the houses of low-income families. For a country with stark economic inequality and few fossil fuels, it’s a way to help the poor while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

A women’s group is criticising the United Nations for gender bias after picking only men to a 19-strong panel to come up with ideas on financing the fight against climate change

Senators Graham, Kerry, and Lieberman believe we can match the scale of China’s centralized industrial policy by fully deploying the engine of American prosperity: our marketplace. Do you? Opinion article by Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund.

Methane is leaking from beneath Arctic seas north of Siberia — but it is new (very alarming) or going on for ages (less worrying)?

Yucca Mountain’s death by budgetary axe defies logic, argues Reuters columnist Bernd Debusmann.

“A lot of people actually think it’s pretty shocking. They never expected that such as severe situation could develop.” - Lu Yu-rou, media specialist, Plus or Minus 2 Degrees Campaign Alliance.

Senator Lindsey Graham has declared cap and trade legislation dead, and it’s good riddance. If this is indeed a new ballgame, the pronouncement could actually open the way for more meaningful legislation, argues Asher Miller, executive director of the Post Carbon Institute.

In recent months, some cities have made bigger strides than others in an effort to reach sustainability goals. Here are the top five greenest cities in the world, as chosen by GlobalPost.com.

A recent poll shows public belief in the threat of global warming is slipping.

Wind power is one “green” sector that could quickly turn red for investors, argues John Laforet, president of Wind Concerns Ontario.

The online world is abuzz with anticipation of Wednesday’s launch of the power-plant-in-a-box, the Bloom Box, developed by 8-year-old Silicon Valley startup Bloom Energy.

The Thomson Reuters North America Shale Gas Valuation Index, based on closing share prices from Feb. 18.

Dubai’s debt fiasco and real estate bubble bust pushes investors to look out for alternative assets underlying Islamic finance products – could renewable energy provide a way-out?

Photo: Reuters/Manama, Bahrain wind turbines