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- Our weather, always unpredictable, is now fluctuating on a grand scale and becoming increasingly hard to forecast long-term. The challenge for meteorologists is to explain these unexpected outbreaks of climatic unpleasantness.
- Pictures of Algie Nelson’s days as a United States Marine fill up a poster board on his living room floor. Photographs from Nelson’s younger days displayed a strong, athletic man. This week he will receive a kidney transplant.
- An oil drilling rig off a rural road in southern Kings County and others like it springing up in the Valley could be the key to newfound wealth and prosperity for California, although at an uncertain cost to the environment.
- Oil and gas drilling has swept off the plains and into the Colorado Statehouse, fueling battles between the industry and community advocates and potentially between Gov. John Hickenlooper and his fellow Democrats in the Legislature.
- The question for Seaside Heights, NJ, a tiny barrier island town slammed by Hurricane Sandy, is whether an 18-foot-high sand dune would save it or kill it. Some people want the barrier, while others oppose it.
- Michigan winemakers are exploring a variety of options to get the most out of their crops. They’re experimenting with growing hardier grapes to handle whatever curve balls Mother Nature throws.
- Rising sea levels due to climate change are threatening the survival of big cities located near coastal areas like Kolkata, Shanghai and Dhaka, said Dr RK Pachauri, chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
- The Arctic may be shrinking as the world warms but Antarctic sea ice is expanding. Blame global warming for that, too, say Dutch scientists.
- Critics of the switch to natural gas have long warned that the fuel is too volatile, price-wise, to be relied upon as a major source of baseload electricity generation. A new report indicates that coal has begun to regain its dominance.
- A confluence of factors could make 2013 the most fruitful opportunity in years – and for years – for potentially major action on climate change, according to a leading voice on climate change policy, the British economist Nicholas Stern.
- Of all the many and varied consequences of fracking (water contamination, injured workers, earthquakes, the list goes on) one of the least understood is so-called "fugitive" methane emissions.
- The question for Seaside Heights, NJ, a tiny barrier island town slammed by Hurricane Sandy, is whether an 18-foot-high sand dune would save it or kill it. Some people want the barrier, while others oppose it.
- President Obama has pledged to take on climate change, but vacancies on the DC Court of Appeals may make that difficult. This court has a Republican majority and rules on many environmental regulations.
- Less than three weeks after two US researchers called for global agreement on the governance of geoengineering research, British meteorologists have provided a case study in potential geoengineering disaster. They found that, historically, aerosols...
- The pipeline that broke in Mayflower, Arkansas was carrying bitumen from Canada's tar sands, which has the consistency of peanut butter. A petition is before EPA for a moratorium on new or expanded bitumen pipelines until there are tighter...
- This year President Obama will decide whether to allow construction of the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta, Canada, to the Gulf of Mexico. Few environmental issues in recent years have engendered so much passion and debate.
- Tom Steyer made his fortune by founding a hedge fund with a keen interest in the energy sector, including leading oil, pipeline and mining companies. Yet there’s a green streak to Mr. Steyer. Climate change, the American billionaire decided, was the...
- Recent heavy rains that have lashed Buenos Aires and other parts of Argentina, causing 100-year record flooding that left more than 50 people dead, may be just a preview of the years to come.
- Over the last year, nearly 10 percent of the nation’s ethanol plants have shut down. Annual corn yields came in almost a third lower than projected, according to the USDA, driving record-high corn prices that are likely to continue to rise into 2013.
- Antarctic ice core samples, up to 150,000 years old, may help scientists estimate whether it will take 50 years – or 500 years – for the Ross Ice Shelf to collapse at the current rate of climate change.
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