Icebergs Destroy Beachfront Homes in US Homeowners evacuated, no fatalities Strong winds push ice into beachfront homes along Saginaw Bay Michigan - Mountains of ice crept up the beach and over sea walls of Linwood homes early Monday morning. The ice made its way into backyards, broke windows and sp...

by David Adam Photograph: Sinibaldi/Getty Images The head of the UN body charged with leading the fight against climate change has conceded that Barack Obama will face a "revolution" if he commits the US to the deep carbon cuts that scientists and campaigners say are needed. Rajendra Pachauri, head ...

Creative Commons: DaveTrainer In the UK and Canada, manufacturers are urging the government to give consumers money to get old cars off the road and into newer, lower emission vehicles and "catalyse a new low carbon transport revolution." George Monbiot calls it "bunkum" and worse. The whole thing i...

energy, IT, Analysis Gregory T. Huang wrote: “If you’re a technology junkie, cleantech is the candy store for you,” said Byron McCann, co-founder and managing partner of Seattle-based Ascent Partners, an investment bank that advises cleantech and software entrepreneurs. McCann, who...

An interactive map published by the NY Times allows you to find the immigrants, all the way back to 1880, just before my own ancestors came over from various parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The data is broken down into ten-year intervals and various countries and regions. Now that the presiden...

Chastising a scientist for not being a great orator is a bit like moaning at a footballer for not giving enlightening post-math interviews - it's not really their job. Inherently, scientists don't do rhetoric. They do facts, cold hard facts that can be tested, re-tested and tested again, and what's ...

Reuters: It's hard to visualize a water crisis while driving the lush boulevards of Los Angeles, golfing Arizona's green fairways or watching dancing Las Vegas fountains leap more than 20 stories high. So look Down Under. A decade into its worst drought in a hundred years Australia is a lesson of wh...

With so many different players in the Ontario energy game, its hard to believe they all play by the same set of rules. This week on the show, we’ll speak with Bruce Cox, Executive Director of Greenpeace Canada,... read more...

Wall Street Journal: The Dutch are embarking on a decades-long plan to improve their flood-control system because they're afraid that rising sea levels from global warming will threaten their low-lying country. The effort, which the government says could cost EUR1 billion ($1.27 billion) a year thro...

Fond du Lac Reporter: Bird lovers may see a change in the feathered friends frequenting their backyard feeders if seasonal temperatures in Fond du Lac climb as predicted. At this point, it's hard to measure whether that's good news or bad, but it's certainly a matter of adaptation, said well-known a...