Posted by Adrian Soghoian | Feb 1, 2010 | 0 Comments
Obama Seeks to Boost Nuclear Power in New Budget, Yahoo News
A White House Official states Friday that President Obama plans to triple government loan guarantees for nuclear power development to over $54 billion. This increase follows President Obama’s State of the Union address on Wednesday night, which urged legislators to reach a bi-partisan consensus on [...]
Posted by Tristan Jones | Jan 28, 2010 | 0 Comments
It’s not often that when we purchase food from a bodega or grocery store that we consider where it came from. Is my apple from New York, Washington, or China? Were my tomatoes grown in Florida, California, or Mexico? Whose hands planted and picked them? Why did this planter choose this variety?
Wherever our food comes [...]
Posted by Andrea Basche | Jan 27, 2010 | 2 Comments
Can we find positives from the United Nations Summit on climate change? Even President Obama admits that disappointment is justified, although the Commander in Chief claims a non-binding accord was better than a complete collapse of the negotiations.
Jeffrey Sachs, fearless leader of the Earth Institute, adamantly opposed such victory proclamation from the President, for Obama’s [...]
Posted by Betsy Ness-Edelstein | Jan 22, 2010 | 0 Comments
Where climate change is concerned, the Arctic region acts as a harbinger: the extremely sensitive Arctic system reacts earlier and more profoundly to anthropogenic climate change than many other regions. And as climate change progresses, it is also projected to experience greater environmental changes than other places on earth. As such, it has become an [...]
Posted by Poonam Arora | Jan 12, 2010 | 1 Comments
Coining a new phrase is a great way to change an old attitude, was my initial thought when I first read about “YIMFY” or “yes in my front yard”, a phrase introduced in a report from the International Energy Agency. It is a play on the well-known negative “not in my back yard”, but in [...]
Posted by Francesco Fiondella | Dec 14, 2009 | 0 Comments
Using Climate and Weather Forecasts to Improve Humanitarian Decision Making
Posted by Tristan Jones | Dec 11, 2009 | 2 Comments
A lot of hopes have been placed on the Fifteenth Conference of Parties (COP-15) which began earlier this week in Copenhagen. Convened on December 7, the conference has been considered by many our best hope at keeping global temperature from rising to what many researchers consider potentially dangerous levels.
The gathering of delegates from throughout the [...]
Posted by Francesco Fiondella | Dec 7, 2009 | 0 Comments
A new Google Earth tour explores the link between climate and meningitis outbreaks in Africa.
Posted by Andrea Basche | Nov 25, 2009 | 0 Comments
NBC’s Green Week 2009 featured an entertaining energy challenge for the characters of 30 Rock, when Jack tasks Kenneth and the office with reducing the show’s energy consumption by five per cent. Here are some highlights of how characters committed to help the cause.
Liz Lemon: Agrees to remove the mini fridge from her office [...]
Posted by Adrian Soghoian | Nov 23, 2009 | 0 Comments
Industrialized Nations Unveil Plans to Rein in Emissions, The New York Times
A succession of countries in the U.N. makes national pledges to reduce emissions in a hopeful precursor to climate negotiations in December. Mr. de Boer, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change executive secretary, identified targets from every major developed country except the [...]
