Climate Change

  We drove to Brooklyn a few weekends ago to help our son celebrate his 30th birthday. It was a good visit, except for his coughing jags. He may be an adult, but I’m still his mom. I gave him no peace until he agreed...

What does climate change sound like? Using music to convey climate science, University of Minnesota undergrad, Daniel Crawford creates a haunting message with the rising notes of his cello. Crawford based “A Song of Our Warming Planet” on a set of climate data from NASA’s...

This was written by Jim Marston, founding director of the Texas office of Environmental Defense Fund: Today President Obama took an important step toward meeting the promise of his inaugural address to “respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do...

I’m astounded. Anyone whose eyes are open knows the climate of the planet is changing dramatically. Anyone who pays attention knows how bad greenhouse gases are for us. And anyone who has respiratory problems knows this acutely. And yet when President Obama outlined his sweeping...

On June 25, with the hot sun beating down on him, President Barrack Obama delivered his initiative to fight climate change to an audience of young people at Georgetown University. Standing in front of four American flags, frequently mopping his perspiring brow, Obama intoned, “We...