Climate Change

Business/finance stories are spilling over onto the environment beat, and vice versa, as the potential impacts of climate change become more tangible and costly.

As many experts have predicted, global warming won't occur uniformly, in time or space.

Energy issues and policy north of the US border are heating up in intriguing ways, with potentially significant effects throughout North America.

When considering the impact of transportation on the environment, most people think of cars. However, air travel is gaining increasing scrutiny as a climate change culprit.

Big banks take greenhouse gas emissions into account when assessing risks of financing power plants

"Citizen scientist" program to document when local plants flower, bud, leaf.

The Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration is expected to release its annual report on greenhouse gas emissions in the last week or two of November 2007.

The final installment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's "Fourth Assessment Report on Climate Change" is expected to be released Nov. 16, 2007, during a Nov. 12-17 gathering in Valencia, Spain.

Drought is a major local story for many news media. Weather extremes, including drought, are an integral part of the climate change dilemma.

After years of wrangling, and little significant action, federal legislative efforts addressing greenhouse gases and climate change are beginning to crystallize.