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Though the Nobel Peace Prize-winning IPCC has done good work in its past assessments of climate change science, an independent review of the way the organization operates says "fundamental reforms" are needed-- among those are shorter terms for the organization's chai

In case you haven't seen it yet, world renowned climatologist Dr James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies has an excellent new piece in The Guardian wherein he talks at length ab

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Though it's de rigueur to say that any single weather event can't be directly linked to climate change, and it's true, what if we could determine how much of say massive flooding or a 1000-year heat wave were caused by human-caused warming?

Another interesting twist in the ongoing saga of Indonesia's greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and how to slow them: As Mongabay reports, a new report by the World Agroforestry Centre shows that because so many of the nation's emissions fr

Simulating a colossal volcanic eruption every 18 months would just delay sea level rise. Space Shuttle (Mission STS 43) photograph of the Earth over South America taken on August 8, 1991, showing double layer of Pinatubo aerosol cloud (dark streaks) above high cumulonimbus top.

The CDM can fund clean energy projects like concentrated solar farms (photo via flickr)

The UN backed Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has suspended carbon credits for shady chemical manufacturers in China that were producing an excess of pollution and then destroy

Photo from 1st Earth Day via National Geographic

The environmental movement, as most people long understood it, was a broad coalition of individuals, advocacy groups, activists, and others who continually work to address conservation issues and to preserve natural resources; to make sure the environment was gi

We've had a pretty good run with this old planet of ours, haven't we? Sure, she's a tad crowded and a little polluted.

Through application to soil in farmer's fields, biochar both can help increase soil fertility and store carbon emissions.

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Restoring wetlands is great way to reestablish natural carbon sinks--a low-risk geoengineering method--and reap t