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IT WAS a candid remark in a private briefing. But the comments by an Australian climate negotiator in Copenhagen late last week gave some insight into where Labor intends to find a potentially ambitious cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. It will be in the same place that Liberal leader Tony Abbott is indicating [...]

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The average New Yorker uses one-half to one-third the electricity of other Americans. Our carbon footprints are just 29 percent of people who live outside the five boroughs, and City Hall has practical plans to reduce even that amount by nearly a third over the next two decades. No wonder that this month, in a [...]

Some people still question whether Earth’s climate is changing as rapidly and profoundly as the majority of climate scientists suggest. But, what if the complexity of the Earth’s climate were distilled down to one number, in the same way that the Dow Jones Index condenses volumes of data into a single figure? What, then, would [...]

An international team of environmental scientists led by the University of Pennsylvania has shown that sea-level rise along the Atlantic Coast of the United States was 2 millimeters faster in the 20th century than at any time in the past 4,000 years. Sea-level rise prior to the 20th century is attributed to coastal subsidence. Put [...]

The glaciers in Switzerland have been melting for years. Researchers at the University of Zurich now want to know more precisely how much ice is being lost — and they are using the aid of light. Changes in the thickness of a glacier are traditionally measured by means of wooden poles and snow-shovels. Those methods [...]

As the Copenhagen climate talks (COP15) enter their second and final week, frustration reigns. The developed and developing nations are having trouble coming to agreement on who needs to do how much by when. The low-lying island nations, whose very survival is at stake, such as Maldives and Tuvalu, are feeling desperate, and thousands of [...]