Environment

Scientists baffled by global warming's time-out Scientists baffled by global warming's time-out

Temperatures haven't risen this decade, as climatologists expected. Is it sunspots? Ocean currents? Secret volcano?
By Gerald Traufetter Nov 19, 2009

  • Condoms against climate change

    A new study argues family planning is the cheapest way to stop global warming. Thomas Malthus agrees
    By Andrew Leonard September 17, 2009

  • The family who just said no

    "No Impact" couple Colin Beavan and Michelle Conlin on the new movie capturing their year without A/C, TV or T.P.
    By Andrew O'Hehir September 11, 2009

  • Will Ecuador's Indians bankrupt Chevron?

    Documentarian Joe Berlinger on the amazing Amazon pollution case in "Crude" -- and its link to the West Memphis 3
    By Andrew O'Hehir September 10, 2009

  • Why continue therapy?

    It could take me years to work through all my issues. Maybe I should spend my money on books and other things
    By Cary Tennis September 9, 2009

  • Does the Prius have an Achilles heel?

    Hybrid technology depends on rare minerals currently produced mostly in China. The Saudi oil sheiks must be pleased
    By Andrew Leonard September 2, 2009

  • Eco-pirates of the Antarctic

    This thrilling sea adventure follows a ragtag activist group's highly illegal campaign against Japanese whalers
    By Andrew O'Hehir August 28, 2009

  • How to kill a coal plant

    As a recent British protest shows, nonviolent civil disobedience may be our best hope to counteract global warming
    By Mark Engler August 18, 2009

  • Should we forgive Michael Vick?

    Science says we'll be healthier if we do, but some argue there's room in a healthy life for a good grudge
    By Dana Scarton August 17, 2009

  • When we thought we could save the Earth

    Robert Stone's documentary feels like a Pynchon-style alternate history of the U.S. -- except it really happened
    By Andrew O'Hehir August 14, 2009

  • What's really in your shampoo

    Sure, a couple ingredients clean your hair. But the rest are a veritable toxic dump on your head
    By Bill Bunn August 13, 2009

  • Neighborhood watch on planet Earth

    We need to keep going to space to know what's happening down here
    By Michael Winship August 8, 2009

  • Dolphins are dying to amuse us

    SeaWorld and aquariums, implicated in the shocking new documentary about dolphin slaughter, "The Cove," strike back
    By Katharine Mieszkowski August 7, 2009

  • Sushi to die for

    Will bluefin tuna survive our insatiable appetite for status and taste?
    By Katharine Mieszkowski July 27, 2009

  • Goodnight, moon travel

    It's time to save planet Earth. And our inspiration, once again, comes from JFK
    By Joseph Romm July 20, 2009

  • Sarah Palin, energy expert

    In a new op-ed, the outgoing governor of Alaska blasts President Obama's energy plan
    By Vincent Rossmeier July 14, 2009

  • Will America's parks be his oyster?

    Obama says politics will no longer cloud science. But his choice for national parks director is facing that charge
    By Jacoba Charles July 14, 2009

  • The FRAC Act under attack

    Are Democrats going wobbly as energy companies resist curbs on the natural gas drilling practice known as fracking?
    By Abrahm Lustgarten July 14, 2009

  • Why America is flunking science

    Don't just blame poor education for our nation's scientific illiteracy -- but our politics and pop culture
    By Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum July 13, 2009

  • I'm tired of just being a man

    How I learned about my own animality (and "humanzees," Stalin and scary creationists) by living with a chimp
    By Charles Siebert July 11, 2009

  • Overheated by clean energy

    As the debate over the Waxman-Markey climate bill rages on, Harvard's top environmental economist sheds some light
    By Katharine Mieszkowski July 10, 2009
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