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Richard Goldman, founder of the Goldman Prize, dies at age 90
The planet lost a great and generous hero on Monday when philanthropist Richard N. Goldman died at the age of 90.
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Future at risk on a hotter planet
We are altering the earth’s climate, setting in motion trends we do not always understand with consequences we cannot anticipate.
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Improving accuracy and accountability in the International Global Warming agreement
Having a strong, credible, and transparent system for tracking greenhouse gas emissions and the actions of a country is an essential building block of an effective international system to address global warming. This was a key issue at the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009. Resolving important details about how these pieces would be implemented has been […]
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Energy Secretary Chu Talks Energy Innovation and U.S. Competitiveness
Energy Secretary Steven Chu gave a speech at the National Press Club on Monday in which he referred to China’s investments in clean energy as a “Sputnik moment.” “America still has the opportunity to lead in a world that will need essentially a new industrial revolution to give us the energy we want inexpensively but […]
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Converting astronaut poop to space power — the final frontier?
UNESCO's 2011 space odyssey involves launching a shatellite filled with bacteria that could possibly turn astro-poo into power. At last!
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While climate talks drag on, cities must adapt or die
In cities like Norfolk, Va., rising sea levels are not a hypothesis -- they're an unpleasant reality that has to be dealt with, now.
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Pre-Cancun summit, American farmers debate climate change
The climate is heating up -- as is the debate among farmers about what to do about it. Unhappily, the deniers still rule the day.
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Saving the world's future food supply is key to climate adaptation, says Cary 'Dr. Doom' Fowler
In a world being shaped by a rapidly changing climate, Cary Fowler believes the most efficient way to deal with the coming challenges is by hoarding as many different kinds of crop seeds as possible -- in a frozen mountain near the Arctic Circle. Which is one reason he earned the nickname "Dr. Doom."
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Study says climate change could make a billion homeless
As the climate conference begins in Cancun, new research lays out a worst case scenario for a faster-warming planet.
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350 EARTH pulls off world's biggest art project [PHOTOS & VIDEO]
Here?s a behind-the-scenes look at the biggest art project the planet has ever seen -- so big that in some places we needed to back up into outer space for enough perspective.