Dot Earth

  1. A Reality Check on a Plan for a Swift Post‑Fossil Path for New York

    A journal that published an ambitious plan for New York State to go fossil free in a few decades now runs a critique.

  2. Global Warming and Our Inconvenient Minds

    A fun chat on humans’ inconvenient minds and why they make finding consensus on climate hard, but consensus on some smart energy steps easy.

  3. Why Colorado’s Fire Losses, Even with Global Warming, Need Not Be the ‘New Normal’

    A deeper look at ways to cut risk and losses in America’s wildfire red zones.

  4. Talking Climate Online With David Roberts of Grist

    A “very serious person” and “dirty hippy” talk climate change.

  5. Seeking Constructive Debate on Nuclear Energy

    A Pulitzer-winning historian of the atomic age defends nuclear energy and a new film about it.

  6. A Film Presses the Climate, Health and Security Case for Nuclear Energy
  7. Wild Moment: A Fawn Saved By Someone Else’s Mom
  8. Cell Phone Population Spike Catching up With Humans
  9. Energy Agency Makes Case for Climate‑Wise Energy Steps
  10. With CO2 Cuts Tough, U.S. and China Pledge a Push on Another Greenhouse Gas
  11. Urban Trees as Triggers, From Istanbul to Oregon
  12. A Pitch to Add Ivory to the Agenda as Obama Meets His Chinese Counterpart
  13. The End Comes for a Troubled California Nuclear Plant
  14. The Green Roots of Turkey’s Urban Unrest
  15. Jackie Chan Presses Case for Rhino Conservation
  16. The Argument Against Oil Drilling in Arctic Seas
  17. Rare Look at a Baby Kipunji – One of the World’s Most Endangered Monkeys
  18. The Right Rules for Keeping Ships from Hitting Right Whales
  19. How Storm Chasers Have Made Tornado Alley Safer
  20. Rising Aggression Against Turtle Conservationists Preceded Costa Rica Slaying