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CHILLING EFFECT; As Coolant Is Phased Out, Smugglers Reap Large Profits
As government authorities in the industrialized world work to phase out an air-conditioner coolant, HCFC-22, a black market has sprung up for it.
View ArticleAcademy Finds Mixed Climate Impacts on Himalayan Glaciers, Water Supplies
A new look at the fate of Himalayan glaciers in a changing climate, and the implications for 1.5 billion Asians, cuts through caricatures....
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Race Is On as Ice Melt Reveals Arctic Treasures
The jockeying among nations has begun as areas of the Arctic once regarded as barren wastelands now offer an abundance of oil, gas and minerals.
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A Melting Greenland Weighs Perils Against Potential
As warming temperatures are upending traditional Greenlandic life, they are also offering up intriguing new opportunities.
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THE AGENDA; Romney Shifted Right on Energy as Presidential Politics Beckoned
Mitt Romney is more apt today to talk about his support for oil drilling than about the environmental policies that he advocated while governor of Massachusetts.
View ArticleSO CALIFORNIA GOES; A Grand Experiment to Rein In Climate Change
On Jan. 1, California will become the first state in the nation to charge industries across the economy for the greenhouse gases they emit.
View ArticleAn Airline Fleet Fueled by Natural Gas
Qatar, an emirate with relatively little oil and vast supplies of natural gas, wants its national airline to use the latter as fuel. \...
View ArticleA Market in Emissions Is Set to Open in California
An auction will formally open California’s cap-and-trade system, intended to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by issuing allowances to polluters, then trading them in a market.
View ArticleCoal Boom Unabated in Asia
China and India lead in plans for fleets of new coal-fired power plants....
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CHILLING EFFECT; Effort to Curb Coolant Falters, Sometimes at Home
The United States has pressed poor countries to pick up the pace in eliminating the harmful HCFC-22, but it still has 140 million central air units running on the gas.
View ArticleAs Doha Climate Talks Convene, Report Finds Broken Promises
Political, academic and environmental leaders will try to craft plans to both mitigate climate change and adapt to it, again....
View ArticleOn Our Radar
The climate talks get under way in Doha, Qatar, a ship traverses the Arctic and Vancouver finds a way to reuse plastic as sidewalk paving....
View ArticleAs Ever, Money Worries Pervade Climate Talks
It is a particularly difficult time for industrialized nations to find new money to help developing nations cope with drought or rising seas....
View ArticleOP-ED CONTRIBUTORS; Going Beyond Carbon Dioxide
A short-term strategy to slow global warming is to reduce emissions of other pollutants.
View ArticleDoha: Weirdly Tame and Dispirited
At the annual climate change negotiations there were no people in polar bear suits, and there was no solid agreement....
View ArticleAid Groups Push for Clean Energy
In addition to its field work protecting animal species, the World Wildlife Fund, along with other nongovernmental groups, are turning toward policy research, advocacy and lobbying on broader issues...
View ArticleOP-ED CONTRIBUTOR; To Slow Warming, Tax Carbon
Contrary to popular perception, the U.S. is on a better path than Europe: transitioning from coal to gas, investing its new technologies, and reducing its emissions at a faster rate than Europe is.
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GLOBAL AGENDA | ECONOMY; Let’s Stick Together
The world is at risk of a race to the bottom in financial standards. Where are the global voices that can do something about it?
View ArticleA Conversation With: India's Chief Climate Change Negotiator
Despite Hurricane Sandy, little change in Western attitudes to climate change at Doha talks....
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CHILLING EFFECT; As Coolant Is Phased Out, Smugglers Reap Large Profits
As government authorities in the industrialized world work to phase out an air-conditioner coolant, HCFC-22, a black market has sprung up for it.
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