Enterprise Rent-A-Car – the world’s largest car rental company – has joined the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a shadowy corporate front group that blocks clean energy policies, supports discriminatory voter ID laws and works to stop gun control legislation...¹

A pumpjack bobs on public lands in Utah. Photo courtesy of WildEarth Guardians.

Backers of the "keep it in the ground" movement have taken their efforts up a notch, asking a federal court to force the Obama administration to consider the climate impacts of oil and gas leasing on public lands...

The Scottish island of Gruinard had been quarantined for decades after field trials of anthrax as biological weapon in 1942. AP Photo

The death of a boy and his grandmother this month in the far north of Russia after an anthrax outbreak raises questions about the impact of climate change on other pathogens that have been suspended in the ice...

Why does Bill McKibben’s recent sensationalist appeal for a “War on Climate” make no mention, not even one, of ecology or ecosystems?

Richard Rossi and his four-year-old great-grandson, Justice, wade through water in search of higher ground after their home flooded in St. Amant, Louisiana. Jonathan Bachman/Reuters

Climate change is conditioning us to accept natural disasters as “the new normal.”

Can they get where the need to go? (Dan Majka / The Nature Conservancy)

As the global climate gets hotter both people and animals will have to adapt to changes in their local environments. However, while people can shed clothes or turn up the A/C, animals have fewer options to maintain the conditions they need to survive...

Downed telephone and power cable poles in the streets of New Orleans on Sept. 11, 2005. Omar Torres/Getty Images

When I dream about Hurricane Katrina (and I still do), it always starts with the refrigerators. Kenmore, GE, Whirlpool, Frigidaire, Amana...

ISLAMABAD (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Pakistan will invest $8.5 million to expand a network of glacier monitoring stations tracking the pace of glacial melt in the Hindu Kush, Karakoram and Himalayan mountain ranges, in an effort to strengthen early warning systems and reduce the impact of flooding in the South Asian country...

Natural gas drilling, seen on top of the Roan Plateau, encircles the wildlife-rich area in 2008. The plateau sits inside BLM boundaries. Credit: Zack Ornitz 

 Environmentalists launched a legal fight Thursday challenging federal government leasing to oil and gas companies of nearly 400,000 acres of public land in Wyoming, Utah and Colorado...

The Russian-flagged Akademik Sergey Vavilov in Alexandra Strait in the Arctic. Last month, Arctic sea ice covered 630,000 square kilometres less ocean than the 30-year average.  (Paul Watson/toronto star file photo) 

Scientist Peter Wadhams believes the summer ice cover at the north pole is about to disappear, triggering even more rapid global warming...

The Spectator is one of the oldest English language magazines on the planet, established in London in 1828.  Chances are if you’ve never read it, you’ve probably heard of it...

Greenland loses ice to the sea mainly through two processes. The shedding of icebergs from glaciers that run into the sea or surface melt of. Credit: NASA

Rising temperatures can’t fully explain the ongoing melting of the Greenland ice sheet. A new project looks at how microorganisms are changing the reflectivity of the ice sheet, helping it warm and melt...

Leaders pose for the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors group photo during the annual International Monetary Fund, World Bank Spring Meetings at the IMF on April 15, 2016 in Washington, DC. / AFP / Mandel NGAN

China is throwing the world’s leaders a party, and oil bulls may be hit with the hangover...

CNN meteorologist Chad Myers. credit: CNN

"It's OK to be wrong as long as you learn from your mistakes..."

Governor Jerry Brown giving closing remarks at a climate symposium in 2014. Photo via Wikimedia Commons

After an intense lobbying spree and threats from Governor Jerry Brown to take the measure directly to voters via ballot initiative should it fail to pass, Senate Bill 32 (SB 32) was approved by the California legislature yesterday...

Corn is the main crop used in the U.S. to produce biofuel. Credit: Jim Deane/Flickr

Years of number crunching that had seemed to corroborate the climate benefits of American biofuels were starkly challenged in a science journal on Thursday, with a team of scientists using a new approach to conclude that the climate would be better off without them...

THE SIGNS (AND THE SCIENCE) ARE CLEAR. OUR CLIMATE IS CHANGING...

Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830, the date scientists now believe emissions from the UK's industrial revolution began to warm the planet. Source: Wikimedia Commons

Researchers have pinpointed the beginning of global warming to a couple of decades in mid-1800s, showing earth’s sensitivity to small atmospheric changes...

(Zillow, NOAA)

The real estate data firm Zillow recently published a research analysis that estimated rising sea levels could leave nearly 2 million U.S. homes inundated by 2100, a fate that would displace millions of people and result in property losses in the hundreds of billions of dollars...