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How engineering the climate could mess with our food

Injecting aerosols into the atmosphere could cool our climate -- but it comes at a price.

Scientists plan to make a volcano into a generator

Scientists want to inject millions of tons of water into a volcano to harness its energy. What could possibly go wrong? NOTHING. NOTHING IS WHAT.

Critical List: Financial assistance for cooling costs down; Atlanta's trees are dying

Stuck in a heat wave? Can't afford A/C? Too bad: Groups that dole out government assistance for cooling have had their funding cut and have turned away up to 80 percent of applicants.

Today's the first anniversary of the climate bill's death.

Atlanta loves trees! It charges $1,000 to chop one down. But drought, storms, invasive species, and natural causes get to kill trees for free, and they’re are all contributing to a large-scale die-off.

Critical List: Kyoto will expire with no successor; Rock climbers scale wind turbines

Global fail: The Kyoto Protocol will expire without a deal to take its place, the top UN climate official said yesterday. China's own Ministry of Environmental Protection said in a report that the country's not doing so hot on the environmental front. The report ticked off problems like acid rain (half of the China's cities […]

Global Heating Causes Earthquakes

Number of earthquakes worldwide in 1990: 16,590—-number in 2008: 31,777                        -U.S. Geological Society National Earthquake Information   I have to say that when I first started hearing about this possible connection a couple of years ago, I was kind of a skeptic. Part of me reacted, “Hey, we’re already contending with head-in-the-sand people—like the […]