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06.01.2011
A year in the hot seat
Commissioner vows to push for climate deal and praises ‘balanced' agreement at Cancún.
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04.01.2011
New Congress Could Roll Back Environmental Progress
DENVER - The 112th U.S. Congress gets to work in Washington today, and there could be some big changes in the way the nation approaches energy policies. Nearly every state has a representative or senator who denies the science of climate change, and that includes Colorado freshman Congressman Cory Gardner. Gardner has said while he doesn't doubt that the earth is warming, he questions whether the condition is caused by human activities.
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03.01.2011
Political Battle Brewing over the EPA's New Emissions Regulations
All in all, 2010 was a year to forget for environmentalists — carbon cap-and-trade legislation died, international climate talks sputtered and even the clean-tech market took a hit — and 2011 isn't looking much better. The incoming class of Republicans taking over the House in January features no shortage of members who deny the connection between man-made greenhouse-gas emissions and a warming planet — let alone think it's worth trying to lower those emissions.
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02.01.2011
Review: The silver lining of climate change
An ancient Chinese curse says, “May you live in interesting times.” This utterly absorbing book, subtitled Four Forces Shaping Civilization’s Northern Future, forecasts interesting times indeed, especially for the eight nations that comprise the Arctic Rim countries: Canada, the U.S., Russia, Iceland, Greenland (Denmark), Norway, Sweden and Finland.
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01.01.2011
World natural disasters
2010 may go down in history as a year that set an absolute number of records in terms of natural cataclysms. The eruption of the Eyjafjallaökull volcano in Iceland actually paralyzed air traffic in Europe; there were hurricanes in America, snowstorms in Europe, earthquakes and volcano eruptions in Indonesia and Haiti, inundations in Pakistan, and drought in Russia.
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