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The upcoming week could very well be the most important week our species has faced. Homo sapiens sapiens has an unprecedented opportunity to demonstrate its wisdom by addressing climate change in Copenhagen. World leaders can either act in the best long-term interests of the planet and its people, or continue cowing to the financial interests [...]

Climate change pushes some endangered species closer to extinction

Veterans for clean energy tour the South

Activists climb chimneys in protest

Dear EarthTalk: Has anyone been tracking whether climate change is causing more loss of human life as it gets more pronounced?                                                             – Gordon Gould, Compton, CA
 Researchers believe that global warming is already responsible for some 150,000 deaths each year around the world, and fear that the number may well double [...]

Obama Administration looks at cooling earth’s air

Dear EarthTalk: I keep meeting people who say that human-induced global warming is only theory, that just as many scientists doubt it as believe it. Can you settle the score?  – J. Proctor, London, UK
 So-called “global warming skeptics” are indeed getting more vocal than ever, and banding together to show their solidarity against the scientific [...]

Supreme Power
The Piedmont Environmental Council and three Virginia counties have appealed a recent Virginia State Corporation Commission decision to approve a new mega-transmission line that would prolong coal-fired power in the Mid-Atlantic for another 50 years. The Supreme Court will not hear any new evidence or testimony, but will review the basis of SCC’s decision.
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Supreme Power
The Piedmont Environmental Council and three Virginia counties have appealed a recent Virginia State Corporation Commission decision to approve a new mega-transmission line that would prolong coal-fired power in the Mid-Atlantic for another 50 years. The Supreme Court will not hear any new evidence or testimony, but will review the basis of SCC’s decision.
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Dear EarthTalk: With all the talk of desalinization of ocean water for drinking, what do we know about the impacts this might have on climate, ocean salinity and other natural processes?
                                                                                                                         – Fred Kuepper, via e-mail
 Due to its high cost, energy intensiveness and overall ecological footprint, [...]

U.S. greenhouse gas rates rise in spite of eco-awareness.

U.S. greenhouse gas rates rise in spite of eco-awareness.

U.S. greenhouse gas rates rise in spite of eco-awareness.

U.S. greenhouse gas rates rise in spite of eco-awareness.

Unlike most professional athletes, Alison Gannett was an environmentalist before she became a world champion freeskier. Gannett has been researching global warming ever since she graduated from the University of Vermont with an environmental science degree 20 years ago. In the 90s she provided the action shots in Warren Miller films and won multiple [...]