2 days ago ... Andrew Revkin reports on natural resources, the environment, climate change and sustainability.
Marcus Yam for The New York Times A lunar eclipse in 2010. 11:44 a.m. | Chart Updated | John Broder has reported that President Obama will today try to push forward with a State of the Union pledge : With few options available for financing his clean-energy ambitions, President Obama ...
I think there is nothing to “get around”. There are several general strategies for dealing with existing infrastructure, broadly defined. 1) Instead of upgrading, maintaining, and replacing deteriorating existing infrastructure, invest in new infrastructure. If we don’t appreciably ac...
I think there is nothing to “get around”. There are several general strategies for dealing with existing infrastructure, broadly defined. 1) Instead of upgrading, maintaining, and replacing deteriorating existing infrastructure, invest in new infrastructure. If we don’t appreciably ac...
I was excited tonight to see that Justin Gillis has launched a monthly column on climate change, the energy challenge and related issues in Science Times (his new home) . The column, taking the “By Degrees” name from the paper’s 2009 series on responses to global warming , won’t captu...
I found the Marcott et al. paper interesting and read it with some care. There are many details, such as proxy data locations and the exact method of averaging, that are not presented in the main text of the paper. In all likelihood many of these factors are discussed in the supplemen...
I’m writing from Rarotonga, Cook Islands, an idyllic tropical paradise of 26 square miles in the South Pacific. But my focus isn’t the beauty; it’s the sharks. Sharks are in trouble around the world. Not because they are a menace, but because overfishing is outpacing their reproductiv...
With the posting Friday evening of “A Blog’s Adieu ,” The New York Times shut down the Green blog, which, through 5,364 posts, had been an excellent aggregator of environmental news and analysis that didn’t fit in the flow of conventional articles. In a short addendum , the editors di...
We cannot reverse climate change and its impact on water availability, but we can and must do a far better job with water management, including the modernization of national and international water policy. Our research and its implications point to the following critical needs, not on...
