It looked like a pretty ordinary day on the water at the U.S. naval base in Norfolk, Va.—a few short bursts of speed, a nice tail wind, some test ...
WASHINGTON—Unless Hurricane Irene interrupts his travel, renowned NASA climate scientist James Hansen will join demonstrators today at the White House to protest the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. U.S. Park Police officers have arrested hundreds of participants since the sit-in b...
WASHINGTON—His climatology career at Ohio State University is advancing swimmingly. He's never had a brush with the law. And his wife is eight months pregnant with their first child. So staying home for the next several weeks in Columbus, Ohio, rather than risking arrest in the nation...
California Gov. Jerry Brown set a lofty new target this week: to generate enough clean green energy from rooftop solar panels and small wind turbines to power 3 million homes statewide by 2020. Speaking at a UCLA clean energy conference on Monday, the governor said that 12 gigawatts, ...
Glassmaking in America has been in decline for at least a decade as manufacturers have moved production to China and other emerging economies. But can the green-buildings movement spark a revival? Makers of a new class of energy-efficient "dynamic" windows are establishing factories i...
Cynthia Walter, an ecologist at St. Vincent College outside Pittsburgh, gets a lot of emails from local wildlife enthusiasts asking about "this bird" or "that amphibian." But one day last year she got an uncommon request to inspect the forest cover around the Beaver Run Reservoir via ...
During the industrial boom of the mid-twentieth century thousands of man-made chemicals were created to make chemical processes and products stronger and more durable. The substances became useful in pest control and crop production, but it wasn't long before they also proved deadly, ...
Arctic sea ice will disappear completely by 2060 in the summer months due to accelerated warming at the poles from both a buildup of human-caused greenhouse gases and the planet's natural greenhouse effect, a group of scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research conclu...
WASHINGTON—Americans nationwide still have a quiver full of queries for experts about climate change. But the content of their questions — and the sources they are likely to trust with answers — vary depending on their level of concern and engagement with the issue. That's one of the ...
