Apr 13 Watch Author Promotes Lifestyle Changes in Global Warming Fight A writer and environmentalist explains how lifestyle changes can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help mitigate America's contribution to global warming as part of a NewsHour series on ways to deal with climate change. Continue watching
Apr 11 Watch Carbon Tax Aims to Cut Greenhouse Gases The NewsHour's series of conversations about approaches to deal with global climate change continues with a discussion of carbon taxes -- levies that would aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by taxing activities that burn fossil fuels. Continue watching
Apr 10 Watch Climate Change Experts Look to European Model for Curbing Emissions An international panel of scientists issued a report last week on the potential impacts of global warming. In the first part of a series on climate change, an advocate for an emissions cap-and-trade system used in Europe explains how it… Continue watching
Apr 06 Watch Climate Change Will Hit Poor Hardest, U.N. Panel Says Changes to Earth's climate and ecosystems will hit the world's poor the hardest, according to a report released Friday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Two of the report's lead authors, Michael Oppenheimer and Joel Smith, discuss the science… Continue watching
Apr 02 Watch Supreme Court says EPA can regulate greenhouse gases In a defeat for the Bush administration, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Environmental Protection Agency can regulate carbon dioxide emissions from cars under the Clean Air Act. Continue watching
Mar 21 Watch Gore Urges Congress to Take Action on Climate Change Former Vice President Al Gore returned to Capitol Hill Wednesday to testify about global climate change. Gore told a congressional panel that global warming is "a true planetary emergency" and urged Congress to take action. The NewsHour presents excerpts of… Continue watching
Feb 23 U.S. Government Looks to List Polar Bear as Threatened By Admin, PBS News Hour The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing the polar bear -- a species whose survival depends on the sea ice that is melting as the Earth's temperature rises -- as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act. Continue reading
Feb 16 Next Generation of Emissions-Cutting Bills Emerges By Admin, PBS News Hour Over the last few months, new legislation has been introduced in Congress that aims to reduce the effects of global warming by midcentury. Continue reading
Feb 02 Watch U.N. Panel Says Humans ‘Very Likely’ Causing Global Warming The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a report Friday saying temperatures and sea levels will continue to rise for centuries even if greenhouse gas emissions stabilize. An expert and a report co-author discuss the findings. Continue watching
Feb 02 Humans to Blame for Global Warming, U.N. Report Says By Admin, PBS News Hour The evidence for global warming is "unequivocal" and it is "very likely" that human actions are to blame for rising temperatures, an international panel of climate experts said Friday. Continue reading