Energy and Climate Change

"Climate Wizard is meant to make it easier to explore climate data in an interactive way," Girvetz says. "It makes the data accessible in ways that are more intuitive, even for people who are not climate scientists."

A new report shows that green roofs not only help by cooling the sun’s rays, they also are effective for carbon sequestration.

It’s an idea that experts say could be replicated in communities across the country.

We interrupt Dateline Earth’s relentless search for the 100 one-percent solutions to global warming for a special report on a sweeping new look at how we can give ourselves a lot more time to find those solutions.

The cuts that countries including the USA are proposing in greenhouse gas emissions are difficult to measure and highly susceptible to manipulation by government officials and companies.

Solar technology is going where it has never gone before: onto the shelves at retail stores where do-it-yourselfers can now plunk a panel into a shopping cart and bring it home to install.

A new program will develop novel approaches to renewable fuels.

Cheney’s instinct is precisely the right framework with which to think about the climate issue — and this whole “climategate” controversy as well.

Whatever the results of the Copenhagen conference on climate change, one thing is for sure: Draconian reductions on carbon emissions will be tacitly accepted by the most developed economies and sloughed off by many developing ones.

Companies like Coca-Cola, Chevron and Wal-Mart have learned that going green is a quick way to save money and improve their public image. "We should get over the misimpression that American business cares only about immediate profits, and we should reward companies that work to keep the planet healthy,"