Climate Change

The Canadian government treats journalists reporting on the tar sands as if they were the enemy.

"Environmentalist Tom Steyer isn't happy that the conservative Koch brothers turned down his offer to debate climate change and the Keystone XL pipeline."

"Climate change: Now it's personal. There will be more itching, sneezing, swelling and gasping for breath as Pennsylvania's climate shifts and residents are exposed to more poison ivy, stinging insects, pollen allergies and lyme-disease-bearing ticks, and experience increased asthma, respiratory disease and heat-related deaths."

"Glenn Wilson needed a favor on Saturday, and he knew he didn’t have to ask. He wanted to take his son surf fishing, so he drove from his house by the bay in Point Pleasant and parked in his mother-in-law’s driveway in Ocean Beach, two blocks from the sea."

"Pope Francis made the biblical case for mitigating the effects of climate change, speaking to a massive crowd in Rome."

"The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday predicted a "near or below normal" 2014 Atlantic hurricane season, with eight to 13 tropical storms and three to six hurricanes, one or two of which would reach major Category 3 status."

"Climate change threatens to undermine not only how much food can be grown but also the quality of that food as altered weather patterns lead to a less desirable harvest, according to a new study."

Some nuclear power plants could face hazards from climate-driven sea-level rise much greater than the levels they were designed for.