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

What does the production of shale gas have to do with the price of oil? Everything, argues Richard Heinberg, author of nine books including The Party’s Over, Peak Everything, and Blackout: Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis.

Chesapeake Energy trails peers in the Thomson Reuters North America Shale Gas Valuation Index, based on closing share prices from Feb. 17.

In sharp contrast to the proposed federal scheme, California is set to auction all or almost all allowances under its emissions trading programme. It’s the cap and refund approach — and it’s gaining support in Congress.

The Dutch government, the European Commission, the U.N. panel of climate scientists and the journal Nature all have been confused about how much of the Netherlands is below sea level. The U.N. panel has come in for most criticism.