Human-caused climate change gets personal
What felt distant has become much closer. What could be safely put off can no longer be shoved aside.
Investors pull funding from contested Honduran hydro project
New report further documents Honduran government's attacks on indigenous, environmental activists.
Why is it so hard for capitalism to go green?
The global climate crisis rests squarely with us and, in no small degree, depends on the outcome of the upcoming presidential and Congressional elections.
This week in history: Chernobyl nuclear reactor explodes in USSR
Thirty years ago, on April 26, 1986, at 1:23 a.m., an explosion occurred at the Chernobyl atomic power station at Pripyat.
Next Einstein Forum: African countries seek to keep their brain power
More than 700 persons, researchers, decision-makers, industrialists and heads of state, traced a future path for science in Africa.
Trashing the oceans: More plastic than fish by 2050
The increasing flow of plastic is positively choking the waters and their life: 90 percent of sea birds have consumed some form of plastic.
Hope and disappointment: Bridging two realities in Paris climate deal
"The Paris deal recognizes the reality of the climate threat, but only takes us part of the way."
Heating up climate talks: A reader's guide to COP 21
All eyes will be on Paris when the City of Lights shines upon a hugely significant, potentially historic event - the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP 21.
Real progress possible at coming Paris climate summit
Hopes are growing for meaningful progress at the UN-sponsored climate change negotiations in Paris, while the need for such action becomes ever more clear.
Antarctic meltdown: Continent at risk by 2100, cities to pay price
If greenhouse gas emissions continue at their present rate, ice shelves could collapse by the end of the century.
