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Obama turns an even lighter shade of green

Barack Obama sided with utility companies in a lawsuit trying to combat greenhouse gas pollution. This latest anti-green move baffles us, Mr President

Randy Rieland Politics

The Climate Post: Primaries move GOP to the right (on climate)

Read about the GOP primary results, new sources of green energy, upcoming climate change impacts, Dilbert, and more.

Christopher Mims Politics

Climate change found to be rapidly altering … the English language

The latest words added to the Oxford Dictionary of English show our panic-button solutions to global warming are changing the linguistic climate.

Ashley Braun Culture

Climate change: Four futures

As the debate over the climate bill heats up, there’s one rule of thumb that may help you keep your bearings as the rhetoric becomes more gaseous and the weeds […]

Sara Robinson Politics

My review of Jeff Goodell’s new book How to Cool the Planet

What seems like a thousand years ago (I’ll never get used to print media pacing), I wrote a review of Jeff Goodell’s new book for the American Prospect. It appears […]

David Roberts Climate & Energy

Hey, Harry, thanks for pimping my book!

Dear Sen. Harry Reid, By derailing or delaying — or whatever it is you’re doing to — the introduction of a climate bill in the U.S. Senate, you have once […]

Jeff Goodell Climate & Energy

Whales bring up the rear in the fight against oceanic acidification

Photo courtesy nestor galina via FlickrAnti-whaling advocates can take a giant load off their shoulders. An article on Treehugger shares yet another reason not to whale on whales: They crap ecosystem […]

Darby Minow Smith Culture

Building a better volcano

EyjafjallajokullPhoto courtesy Ludie Cochrane via FlickrIn America, we don’t care much about science. We care about sex and violence and money. That makes it hard to sustain a conversation about […]