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Burning Up: Colorado Wildfires and Climate Change

The State of Colorado is on fire. The day after the landmark Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act, Colorado’s fires are so bad [...]

Rebecca Anderson (The Huffington Post | July 7, 2012)

Global warming in our backyard

It’s not just about the polar bears anymore. There was a time when the conversation about global warming was dominated by news about the Arctic, [...]

Editorial (Los Angeles Times | July 7, 2012)

This US summer is ‘what global warming looks like’

If you want a glimpse of some of the worst of global warming, scientists suggest taking a look at U.S. weather in recent weeks.
Horrendous wildfires. [...]

Seth Borenstein (AP | July 3, 2012)

Bill McKibben on the Global Warming Hoax

Please don’t sweat the 2,132 new high temperature marks in June—remember, climate change is a hoax. The first to figure this out was Oklahoma Senator [...]

Bill McKibben (The Daily Beast | July 3, 2012)

Rio+20, the unhappy environmental summit

It was hard to find a happy soul at the end of the Rio+20 environmental summit.
Not within the legion of bleary-eyed government negotiators from 188 [...]

Bradley Brooks (Associated Press | June 28, 2012)

Court Backs E.P.A. Over Emissions Limits

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a finding by the Environmental Protection Agency that heat-trapping gases from industry and vehicles endanger public health, dealing [...]

Matthew L. Wald (The New York Times | June 28, 2012)

Rising sea level puts US Atlantic coast at risk: report

The sea level on a stretch of the US Atlantic coast that features the cities of New York, Norfolk and Boston is rising up to [...]

Staff Writer (AFP | June 25, 2012)

Report: Calif. to get seas rising 6 inches by 2030

The West Coast will see an ocean several inches higher in coming decades, with most of California expected to get sea levels a half foot [...]

Jeff Barnard (AP | June 25, 2012)

Progress on the Sidelines as Rio Conference Ends

Burdened by low expectations, snarled by endless traffic congestion and shunned by President Obama, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development ended here as it [...]

Simon Romero and John M. Broder (The New York Times | June 25, 2012)

Hillary Clinton’s Plan to Get Serious About Global Warming

This United Nations Rio+20 Earth Summit happening now is a reminder of how little has been achieved since 1992, the last time diplomats gathered there [...]

David G. Victor (The Daily Beast | June 21, 2012)