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- Jodee Brekke, a single mom raising three kids outside Denver, had never heard of fracking until she saw a wellpad being cleared a quarter-mile from her home. Concerned that her daughters’“strange rashes” might be related to drilling, she and others...
- The UN-backed IPCC has handed down its latest report on the state of climate change, finding that sea level rises could range between 26cm and 82cm through to 2100 if emissions levels continued as they were. The worst-case scenario pointed to a sea...
- Not entirely. The IPCC scientists admit that some potential positive feedbacks from climate change have not been included in their model assessments of future temperatures. This is because they cannot yet be quantified sufficiently well.
- Europe's Greens have got the blues. The anti-nuclear environmentalist movement that burst into politics in the 1980s as a youthful third force has suffered a string of setbacks in Germany and France, raising questions over its future.
- The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has just released its latest assessment of climate science. New Scientist looks at what it says, how things have moved on since last time – and what this all means for our future.
- The thick mangroves shielding southern Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City from storm surges demonstrate a “green” rather than “grey” approach to climate resilience. Even if restoring wetlands, public financing of climate proofing infrastructure will require...
- The current plan to address one of China’s pressing environmental crises—polluted urban air—could have the unintended effect of creating other ecological catastrophes in China and beyond.
- Edward Burtynsky and Jennifer Baichwal's new documentary, Watermark, begins with a torrent of water rushing past the camera. It's unclear at first what we're witnessing - a wave? a broken levee? - but its ferocity is unmistakable.
- Major energy companies led by Imperial Oil Ltd. have applied to drill for crude in the Beaufort Sea, targeting an area that could require operations in the deepest water yet for the industry in the Canadian Arctic.
- A new system to capture one of the main gases linked to global warming will be tested at a Nebraska coal plant over nearly four years.
- Dane County, Wisc., is taking climate change seriously and plans to make a nearly $1 million investment next year to handle big rainstorms, heavy blizzards and more runoff into farm fields.
- Guyana's tropical rainforests protected under the REDD program provide not just natural resources but an income stream to the country.
- Talks must start urgently on the world's "carbon budget" as without radical policies to cut emissions humanity will exceed the limit within 15 to 25 years, the world's leading climate economist has warned.
- A Sydney council has rejected claims it is not doing enough to safeguard Bondi Beach, the mayor arguing it is ''ahead of the game'' on environmental responsibility.
- Tax credits for the production of wind power and other renewable energy sources face expiration at year’s end amid few signs Congress will decide to continue them, tax lobbyists and other analysts say.
- A new report says Colorado received at least $620 million in federal disaster relief in the 2011-12 fiscal year. The Center for American Progress report puts a disaster-relief price tag on the kind of weather-related events that it says are...
- Jodee Brekke, a single mom raising three kids outside Denver, had never heard of fracking until she saw a wellpad being cleared a quarter-mile from her home. Concerned that her daughters’“strange rashes” might be related to drilling, she and others...
- The deposit of copper and gold is a potential $300 billion bonanza in Iliamna, Alaska, where good jobs can be scarce. The mine's promise of opportunity sits uneasily, though, in a region that produces half the world's wild red salmon and sustains...
- With billions of dollars in penalties at stake, the civil trial of BP begins its second phase on Monday, which will set the amount of oil that spilled into the Gulf of Mexico from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon rig explosion that killed 11 workers and...
- Diaper liner, sawdust, golf balls and shredded tires — these are some of the items used to try and contain the oil and nuclear disasters that marked the end of this century’s first decade and the start of the second.
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