Global Change

Twenty years ago this year, the country watched its oldest national park go up in flames. Looking back, scientists believe the 1988 fires of Yellowstone National Park were the signal fire of climate change. Researchers have been working ever since to understand this relationship between climate...  

Fifteen years ago, 400,000 people got sick and more than 100 died from contaminated drinking water. It's still the biggest outbreak of waterborne disease ever in the United States. It happened because a parasite got into the water supply in Milwaukee. Since then, there have been major changes in...  

"A Bush administration plan to let U.S. agencies decide for themselves whether their actions put wildlife at risk is drawing fire from environmental groups, which say this is like letting a fox guard a henhouse. The Interior Department, one of two federal agencies pushing for this policy change...  

"Last winter, the Clorox Co. gambled that its famous name would translate well from the world of bleach into the world of environmentally friendly cleaning products. So far, that bet is looking like a winner. Just eight months after its introduction, Clorox's Green Works line is on track to...  

"Attempts to tackle global warming are being made more difficult by the spreading economic crisis even as Democratic congressional leaders say it's still a top goal for next year. At the very least, fear of a prolonged economic downturn is expected to delay attempts by the United States to cap...  

A group of New Yorkers is trying to convince people to get out on one of the most polluted bodies of water in the country -- literally out there, in canoes. The Environment Report's Samara Freemark reports October 13, 2008, that they hope once people see the water up close, they'll realize just...  

by globalization, finance, politics forum Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008 at 11:45 PM How is a crisis-filled world finance and political order to change? ...  

Top economists and United Nations leaders are working on a "Green New Deal" to create millions of jobs, revive the world economy, slash poverty and avert environmental disaster, as the financial markets plunge into their deepest crisis since the Great Depression.  

Green is the hottest buzzword in the design world right now. Designers have inadvertently helped to generate the current environmental crisis because, by creating desirable products, they have helped fuel the global consumer economy and its attendant consumption of resources and pollution. Today...  

Environmental Investigation Agency names men it suspects of involvement in illegal operations  

... UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, where countries agreed to launch formal negotiations to reach a long-term global agreement on climate change, ...  

Instead of sidelining the fight against climate change, the global credit crisis could hasten countries' efforts to create "green growth" industries by revamping the financial system behind them, the U.N. climate chief said on Friday.  

"In a 1996 New York Times editorial, John McCain lectured GOP colleagues that Republicans -- not special interest groups -- were responsible for the party's poor environmental image. McCain urged the GOP to embrace the green values of Republican president Teddy Roosevelt, probably the greatest...  

"If the United States focused on curbing climate change as soon as a new president took office -- or sooner -- it could help pull the world from the financial brink, environmental policy experts told Reuters. 'Skyrocketing energy prices and the financial crisis have been a wake-up call that...  

"The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared sympathetic to a legal position held by the Bush administration that would limit environmentalists and other public interest groups from challenging federal regulations. The case centers on a dispute over rules imposed by the U.S. Forest Service, but...