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Here’s the problem: You play in the forest. You live in the city. So you have to drive to the forest, right? Maybe not. “The Union Express” is a new film by documentary filmmaker and surfer Josh Landan that follows surfers as they ride trains to travel to California’s best surf breaks. Even if you [...]

You think polar bear habitat loss is troubling? How about waking up to a world full of transvestite frogs? People often overlook frogs as an animal group worthy of protection, but they’re in desperate need of consideration. Climate change, habitat loss, and pollution (especially pesticides) are weakening frogs’ immune systems and even turning some male [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.