Category Climate change

Flooded rice paddies emit methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes to global-warming damage on a scale that eclipses coal-fired power plants, vehicular exhaust, and other sources of carbon dioxide.”There is no other crop that is emitting such a large amount…

Germany wants to become the most energy efficient country in the world within 13 years. Mayor Bloomberg of New York City released a 127-part plan to make NYC deeply green as well as providing hundreds of thousands of new affordable…

High temperatures can reverse the sex of dragon lizards before they hatch, turning males into females. Leading neocons used this to angrily denounce “the liberal agenda that perverts our basic values, as well as our friends in the dragon lizard…

Private insurers are factoring in the cost of global warming, the federal government has not. They need to to start doing so, say the private insurers. An executive for Swiss Reinsurance American says “We believe unequivocally that climate change presents…

Increasing droughts, floods, heat waves, infectious diseases, storm surges on coastlines, and water shortages are predicted for the US and Canada as a result of global warming. The most threatened areas in the US are the Southwest, California, Alaska, the…