Redmond High School (Redmond, WA) Students’ “Cool School” CO2 Reduction Campaign Leads to Presidential Recognition And EPA Award

Responding to a question posed by their science teacher, five Redmond High School students developed a program to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide generated in the classroom through changes in transportation, recycling, electricity, and heating. The...

Cars Should Plug-in to a New Future: WWF

Plug-in hybrids and battery electric vehicles offer a promising pathway to a sustainable transport future that reduces risks of climate catastrophe and possible conflict over dwindling oil resources, a new WWF analysis has found.

Emissions Trading Could Boost Japan’s Economy

Japan long insisted it could meet its Kyoto goals through voluntary measures and buying credits for fighting global warming overseas. But it is well behind its goals.

Global Warming Solution Studies Will Overestimate Costs, Underestimate Benefits

Studies examining the economic effects of the Lieberman Warner Climate Security Act (S. 2191) will be released in the coming months leading up to Senate consideration of the bill. Many of these studies will likely predict that the reductions of greenhouse...

Asia And Its Evolving Role in Climate Change

Global climate change has moved firmly during the past six months to the forefront of the international agenda. Last September, Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, convened a meeting of heads of state and other world leaders at the United...

2007 Was Tied As Earth’s Second Warmest Year

Climatologists at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City have found that 2007 tied with 1998 for Earth’s second warmest year in a century. Goddard Institute researchers used temperature data from weather stations on...

Bush Administration to Miss Deadline for Polar Bear Endangered Species Act Listing

In response to the Bush administration’s announcement that it will not meet Wednesday’s deadline to issue a final Endangered Species Act (ESA) listing determination for the polar bear due to global warming, environmental groups announced their...

German Investments in Clean Alternative Energy Pay Off

With virtually no oil or natural gas resources of its own, Germany relies on Russia for 20 percent of its oil and one-third of its gas imports. But with Russia displaying a willingness to use oil as a political weapon, Germany is placing new emphasis...