"The United Nations has tried to cover up its involvement in the Australian government’s successful attempt to have all mentions of the country removed from a report on climate change and world heritage sites, freedom of information documents show."

"At the award-winning seafood restaurant in downtown Cleveland that The Atlantic rented out for the entire four-day Republican National Convention, GOP Rep. Bill Johnson turned to me and explained that solar panels are not a viable energy source because 'the sun goes down.'"

"The fate of a mysterious hummingbird — and that of the indigenous population that shares its territory — hangs by a thread."

"Organizations worried about climate change have long drawn comparisons between the petroleum and tobacco industries, arguing that each has minimized public health damages of its products to operate unchecked."

"As state attorneys general of N.Y. and Mass. bristle at Rep. Lamar Smith's subpeonas, the legal stakes get higher as the process becomes even more political."

"The Union of Concerned Scientists will continue to object to House Republicans' requests for documents and communications on climate change, the nonprofit group's president said."

"GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. -- In 1891, a search party found the body of Robert Hamilton floating in the Snake River and lit a fire atop Signal Mountain to alert others in Jackson Hole. Today, the mountaintop is sending out new signals -- cellphone service -- across the sage- and pine-covered valley."