Climate Issues: Compromise Bill by Senate Trio Taking Shape Reuters writers Richard Cowan and Timothy Gardner reported yesterday that, “The Senate is close to wrapping up talks ahead of introducing a compromise climate change bill, ...

Lisa Murkowski is the rare Republican senator who not only acknowledges that global warming exists but says she wants to do something about it. She likes to point out that her home state of Alaska is "ground zero for climate change"...

Butterflies are emerging in spring over 10 days earlier than they did 65 years ago, a shift that has been linked to regional human-induced climate change in an Australian-led study. The work reveals a causal link between increasing ...

Anirvan Chatterjee at Year Of No Flying lists six things you need to know about Bangladesh regarding climate change.

Photo via Seed Magazine Do climate scientists seem too angry? Mathew Nesbit, a professor of communications, has an interesting piece in Slate today arguing that they do, and that it's going to have a negative impact on the public'...

Earlier today, I linked to this great piece by Elisa Lai on climate change and its impact on women. Now DipNote has a post– that went up a couple days ago, I confess– from Jared Banks. He reflects on a recent trip to Senegal and w...

This is a joint post with Molly Kinder. At CGD, we normally conduct research and analysis on development issues (trade, aid effectiveness, climate change, global health), not developing countries.  Pakistan is an exception.  Motivat...

Many Africans blame themselves for climate change even though fossil fuel emissions there are less than 4% of the global total, a new survey suggests....

Over at ThePeopleSpeak.org, Elisa Lai makes a really excellent argument that climate change disproportionately affects women. It’s a very clear and compelling point, and one that I frankly don’t see a ton of. Worth a read when you ...

By Michael J.W. StickingsFrom the BBC:Two government press adverts which used nursery rhymes to raise awareness of climate change have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).It said the advertisements went beyond m...

It used to be that rising tides due to climate change were just a far-off fear - now they're a present-day reality. But we all know that humans are a race of survivors, and some of the best designs come out of the necessity to ada...

"Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. There was none, as extreme weather due to climate change had caused a drought." Clever way to draw attention to the climate chance issue or blatant use of scare tactics? Acco...

The government has vowed to fight on in its efforts to educate the public about climate change after the Advertising Standards Agency banned two of its press ads…...

Wu Changhua, Greater China director for The Climate Group, is the government's go-to woman for environmental advice, and she's helping change its policies-and attitude. Although China is all about gross domestic product, one woman ...

Via Climate Progress (3/16/10), Scientific American guest blogger John Horgan (3/16/10) makes a disturbing claim: Two sources at the Science Times section of the New York Times have told me that a majority of the section's editorial...

Thinking about the amount of trees Ontario has lost over the past decade due to various reasons including urbanization, infestation, fire and climate change, nine in ten (87%) believe that the amount of trees Ontario loses every yea...

Of all the claims made in the ongoing debates over environmental issues and global warming, the assertion that the public hasn't been told or told enough about climate change is laughable at best. But that's what Gregory Lamb wrote ...

This video is from Reuters India: Click image for video: Here’s the details of the story: Pachauri refuses to step down (01:03) Report March 16 – Chairman of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), R K Pachauri, said he...

Britain's independent watchdog agency, the Advertising Standards Association, has decided it is. The ad, which features a a father reading a bedtime story to his daughter about the the impacts of climate change, caused a stir when...

Climate denials have reached a fever pitch in the past few weeks. Anti-science screeds have littered the pages of the major newspapers and dominated talk...