Is Fukushima news ever positive? A new assessment of damage at the plant shows levels of radiation higher than expected, which means decommissioning the plant could take decades.

Building cleantech requires certain resources — rare earth metals, water, biomass — that are getting scarce.

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Mohamed Nasheed, the deposed Maldives president, is doing a media tour to promote The Island President, the movie about his work on climate change and Copenhagen (out this week in theaters!).

A laser satellite map of tropical forests indicates how much carbon they hold.

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In the North Sea, an offshore drilling platform is leaking natural gas.