MarketWatch.com
Global climate change and pollution from the use of fossil fuels killed nearly 5 million people around the world in 2010, according to a report released earlier this year by climate change advocacy group DARA.
Matt McGrath
A new analysis of temperature records indicates that the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet is warming nearly twice as fast as previously thought.
US researchers say they found the first evidence of warming during the southern hemisphere's summer months.
RACHEL NUWER
SARAH LYALL
WORCESTER, England — Britons may remember 2012 as the year the weather spun off its rails in a chaotic concoction of drought, deluge and flooding, but the unpredictability of it all turns out to have been all too predictable: Around the world, extreme has become the new commonplace.
Herman K. Trabish
Is SolarReserve CEO Kevin Smith right about BrightSource’s steam-to-salts storage?
NREL Release
Ways to reduce fleet petroleum use debut alongside a Web site makeover.
David Quammen
Emerging diseases are in the news again. Scary viruses are making themselves noticed and felt.
The REN21 Secretariat Team
The topic of ‘energy’ has gradually moved over the last decades to the very top of the international political agenda. Renewable energy, in particular, has received high attention as a potential ‘win-win’ option in both the environment and development arenas.
Reuters
*70 pct of corals will suffer degradation by 2030
*To protect half of reefs, temperature rise must be under 1.5C
Simon Denyer and Rama Lakshmi
NEW DELHI — Like China two decades ago and the United States in 1950, India stands on the cusp of transformational economic and social change, a jumping-off point at which the demand for electricity is about to explode.