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The Climate Post: Amidst a giant snowstorm, 2010 declared hottest year ever

With snow in every state but Florida (yes, even Hawaii), the NOAA just announced 2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest year for global temperature.

Ask Umbra Book Club announces 'At Home' by Bill Bryson for next read

Ask Umbra announces the new book club selection, At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson. Join and discover why we live the way we do!

EPA blows up industry's plan to blow up a mountaintop

The EPA has vetoed the permit of the Spruce No. 1 mountaintop removal mine in West Virginia. Environmentalists are happy, the coal industry is mad.

Dangerous delaying tactics

Is there really much daylight between the radical rhetoric of the new House leadership and the more moderate-sounding stance of Sen. Rockefeller?

What happened in Brisbane could happen to us

Here's one reason it's important for us to look these catastrophes in the face and realize that they can happen to us: They reveal how weak our systems are. All of our modern sophistication, our gadgets, our smart cars and phones and grids, can be knocked out by an extreme weather event. We need to admit we have a problem, so that we can create resilient solutions.

Protesters: Why Lock the World into a Coal-Powered Future?

This post was co-written by Justin Guay of the Sierra Club International Program. The Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Pacific Environment, Jubilee USA, groundWork South Africa and dozens of activists joined forces today to protest proposed Export-Import Bank’s financing of the enormously destructive Kusile coal fired power plant in South Africa (see photos here). […]

Did we learn anything from the BP oil spill?

The National Oil Spill Commission has given marching orders on how to prevent another disaster. But will Congress listen?

Deep water: The devastating flood of Brisbane [SLIDESHOW]

The city of Brisbane, Australia never thought a flood of this magnitude could happen. Here we present a selection of images from the Flood of 2011.

Corruption scandal casts shadow over Georgia coal plant projects

Dwight Brown, leader of the Atlanta electric co-op Cobb Electric Membership Corp, was indicted last week on 31 counts of criminal wrongdoing.

Set the Alarm Clock: Don’t Sleep Through the Green Revolution

Originally posted on The Great Energy Challenge “There is nothing more tragic than to sleep through a revolution.” The revolution Dr. King spoke of in his speech at the National Cathedral in 1968 was one of the most transformative of the 20th Century – the painful transition from a racially divided America to an America […]