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Protect a Levee, Protect the World

A method of buttressing California's aging levees shows promise for capturing carbon dioxide.

Escape From Kyoto: Saving the Protocol

The right to weasel out of greenhouse-gas agreements might be just what’s needed to make them work.

Dream Memo

The climate change memorandum we can only hope for.

The Locavore’s Dilemma

In planning a diet based on global concerns, sometimes it’s better that there are miles to go before you eat.

Putting Corporations on the Carbon Scale

Mike Wallace helps climate-savvy investors determine whether companies will prosper or shrivel as carbon dioxide regulation becomes reality.

Urban Forest Management Is Up a Tree

It turns out it's not just the disappearance of rainforest trees - mahogany, teak, Brazil nut - that is cause for concern. In a new paper, "Street Trees - A Misunderstood Common-Pool Resource," Indiana University environmental affairs scholars Burnell C. Fischer and Brian C. Steed note that the tree cover in a number of metropolitan areas - the so-called…

Burning Down the House to Keep Warm

Only a fool would support expanded domestic exploration — offshore or elsewhere — under the Bush administration's dysfunctional energy policies. Here's how those policies need to change for America to responsibly find the energy it needs.

Lunar Power: Running on Moonshine

While industrial production of ethanol may not be the savior as it was once heralded, home distillers are willing to tap into a more parochial form of energy independence.

Ecologist Dismisses ‘Ethanol Solution’

Townsend notes that producing corn for ethanol use requires intensively fertilized fields, which produce "the forgotten greenhouse gas."

A Really Inconvenient Truth

The climate problem can be solved. But tackling it is going to be a lot harder than you’ve been led to believe.