Oct 09 How to Build a Cooler City By Saskia de Melker As global temperatures rise, urban areas are facing challenges in keeping their infrastructure and their residents cool. Chicago is tackling that problem with a green design makeover. This report is part of our Coping with Climate Change series. Continue reading
Oct 08 Coping with Climate Change: Green Roofs of Chicago By Saskia de Melker As global temperatures rise, cities face the challenge of keeping their infrastructure and residents cool. Chicago is tackling the problem with a green design makeover that includes 369 green roofs covering 5.5 million square feet -- more than any other… Continue reading
Oct 02 Watch Storms, Starfish and Warmer Waters Wiped out Half of Great Barrier Reef Coral Storms, Starfish and Warmer Waters Wiped out Half of Great Barrier Reef Coral… Continue watching
Oct 02 Starfish and Storms Cost Great Barrier Reef Half Its Coral The images above show the damage that severe weather and crown of thorns starfish have caused to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef system. A study from the Australian Institute for Marine Sciences found… Continue reading
Sep 20 Watch Earth Loses Its 'Air Conditioner': Arctic Ice Cap Shrinks to Record Low Level Earth Loses Its 'Air Conditioner': Arctic Ice Cap Shrinks to Record Low Level… Continue watching
Sep 20 Arctic Sea Ice Melts to Record-Breaking Low By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy // Arctic sea ice melted to 1.32 million square miles this September -- an unprecedented low and a sharp drop from the 2.59 million square mile average for this time of year. It also marks the greatest Arctic ice melt… Continue reading
Sep 18 Climate Change From Different Perspectives By Spencer Michels Anything dealing with climate change is bound to provoke an argument. And our story on Berkeley physicist Richard Muller's recent conversion to a believer in man-made global warming, which he made in an op-ed in the New York Times, certainly… Continue reading
Sep 18 Keeping Climate Stories in Context By Hari Sreenivasan Update: 3 p.m. ET | If the amount of personal email that hit my inbox last night or the comment thread on Spencer Michel's blog post featuring Anthony Watts is any indication, many of you care in some way, shape,… Continue reading
Sep 17 Watch Climate Change Skeptic No Longer Doubts Human Role in Global Warming Climate Change Skeptic No Longer Doubts Human Role in Global Warming… Continue watching
Sep 17 Climate Change Skeptic Says Global Warming Crowd Oversells Its Message By Spencer Michels // It was about 105 degrees in Chico, Calif., about three hours north of Sacramento, when we arrived at the offices of one of the nation's most read climate skeptics. Actually, Anthony Watts calls himself a pragmatic skeptic when… Continue reading