The epic debate over global warming enters a new chapter: The U.S. Senate is considering landmark legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. ...more

June 5, 2008

We Americans have become a more cantankerous, quarrelsome lot in recent decades. ...more

May 22, 2008

Al Gore advised Wall Street leaders and institutional investors Thursday to ditch businesses too reliant on carbon-intensive energy - or prepare for huge losses down the road. ...more

February 15, 2008

High oil prices and growing concerns about the environment may drive more than $7 trillion of new investment in clean energy technologies by 2030, an energy research group says. ...more

February 6, 2008

The United States, China and India must be part of the follow-up treaty to the Kyoto Protocol and agree to cut carbon emissions, Denmark's prime minister said Saturday. Japan's leader offered them a bold strategy for doing it. ...more

January 27, 2008

Major electric companies suddenly are refusing to bet their profits on coal. Trouble is, they aren't sure what option is better. ...more

November 25, 2007

The world will have to end its growth of carbon emissions within seven years and become mostly free of carbon-emitting technologies in about four decades to avoid killing as many as a quarter of the planet's species from global warming, according to top United Nations scientists. ...more

November 18, 2007

The English colonists were grateful to live to see their first harvest in the New World. Prayers were as important as food that Thanksgiving. ...more

November 18, 2007