OCEANS
A new report from the UN Environment Program outlines the economic imperative to protect our oceans from pollution, overfishing, climate change while at the same time developing new marine industries.
ENERGY INNOVATION
As BrightSource Energy adds cutting-edge molten salt storage to its new solar plants, the choice between clean energy and cheap energy is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
OCEANS POLICY
Michael Conathan explains why even though our oceans aren’t exactly part of the “interior,” moving the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration out of the Department of Commerce isn’t a bad idea if it’s done right.
CLIMATE CHANGE
If by going dark for a day to protest anti-piracy legislation, Wikipedia and other websites can cause the US Congress to change course, could they do the same for global warming? James L. Powell imagines how it could work.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
The third and final installment of James Powell’s series examining whether there is a case against human caused global warming in the peer reviewed literature.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
As delegates from 194 parties meet in Durban, South Africa, for the annual U.N. climate change conference, they should take note of the recent evidence linking climate change and public health.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
The proposed Climate Service would have made it easier for the government to collect, distribute, and utilize climate data.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
This is part two in James Powell’s series examining the peer-reviewed scientific publications of 115 climate skeptics. His findings: despite ample opportunity, climate skeptics have failed to present any coherent alternative to the theory that carbon emissions are the primary driver of observed warming
CLIMATE SCIENCE
James L. Powell investigates the most prominent climate deniers to see how many of them have actually ever published peer-reviewed papers about climate science.
CLIMATE AND SPACE
As the current crop of weather and climate satellites ages, Congress needs to summon the political will to fund the next generation of space-based climate monitoring technology.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Eight great charts that explain why we know that climate change is being caused by humans.
BOOK REVIEW
Powell’s “Rough Wind” is just the kind of e-book you should send anyone who wants to get up to speed on the staggering weather extremes of the past year and their connection to global warming. At 99¢, it’s worth every penny.
GENETIC ENGINEERING
Further study is unlikely to turn up any reason why AquaBounty’s fast-growing genetically engineered salmon shouldn’t be fit for human consumption, but whether the product will succeed in the market is another question.
OCEANS
No longer a modest side effect of global warming, anthropogenic ocean acidification threatens all ocean ecosystems, which could spell trouble for life on earth.
AGRICULTURAL REGULATION
The potential of industrial hemp in the United States is enormous, but we will never be able to truly reap the benefits until the government rolls back unnecessary regulations.
BOOK REVIEW
James Lawrence Powell’s new book is a straightforward, thorough, and well-researched account of the assault on climate science.
CLIMATE SCIENCE EDUCATION
By playing defense instead of offense, the Department of Education missed an opportunity to turn the recent squall over SpongeBob Square Pants’s book about climate change into a hurricane of science education.
ENERGY INNOVATION
With the latest dismal jobs report still fresh in the nation’s mind, it becomes increasingly clear that our current job creation efforts just aren’t cutting it. It is time to take action on facilitating new, emerging sectors that have been [...]
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Climate Progress’s Joe Romm looks at the counterfactual: What if congressional conservatives and the president felt as passionately about reducing carbon emissions as they do about federal spending?
THE NATIONAL LABS
Science Progress takes an in-depth look at the implementation of wildfire safety policies at Los Alamos National Laboratory, home of the atomic bomb.
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