Climate Change as an Epidemic

There are many dismayed today that President Obama did not call more attention to climate change in last night’s State of the Union Address.  And while he chose not to hark on environmental buzz words, he did make very strong statements about the necessity for a clean...

When making a push for any kind of change, it’s natural to seek celebrity endorsements, but research released yesterday by the campaign Climate Week shows that it’s those closest to us, our friends, family, and partners, who most influence the way we view carbon emissions...

Evidence of climate change can now be found in your cup of tea. Tea growers in the Northeastern Indian state of Assam, a region known for its strong, breakfast brews, say climate change is responsible for subtle, yet gravely detrimental changes in tea leaves. Assam...

IBM has announced a list of five green technology advances that will change the way we live over the next five years.  Among those chosen are air-breathing batteries, environmental sensors for everyday items, and cities that operate on the excess heat from data centers.  Learn...

The United Nations climate change conference in Cancun, Mexico concluded with an agreement on what is needed to avoid climate change in the future. Though it falls short of making some of the broader changes scientists say are necessary, the Cancun Agreement gives the 190 countries...

Google Earth has created a series of videos and tours to combat climate change and coincide with the United Nations Climate Change conference currently being held in Cancun, Mexico.  In one video, “Coping with Climate Change,” Kofi Annan narrates footage of people who are forced...

Following last week’s elections, ThinkProgress reported that many in the new class of Republican legislators not only oppose comprehensive climate change legislation, but deny the existence of manmade global warming.  The site reports that 50% of the GOP’s newly elected representatives (more than 100) deny...

Leslie Kaufman wrote a fascinating piece in yesterday’s New York Times about the energy conservation efforts in the town of Salina, Kansas.  Despite their fierce conservatism and denial of climate change, Nancy Jackson of the Climate Change and Energy Project found that by simply changing the...

Huffington Post just announced the CoolClimate Art Contest which challenges artists to create a work drawing attention to the acute dangers of climate change.  Twenty finalists will be chosen from a panel of judges including Chevy Chase, Van Jones, Jackson Browne and Philippe Cousteau.  These...

Other than being appreciative of the role they play in making my life more convenient and helping to heal me when I’m sick, I want little to do with science and its cohort, technology.  Usually, both topics are above my head and far outside my...