Climate

Earth

Obama administration should lead energy transition

R.K. Pachauri, an engineer and economist by training, is director-general of The Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi, India, and a corecipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his role as chief of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC periodically issues consensus reports on the science of climate change. Senior editor Janet Raloff spoke with him about changes he hopes to see from the Obama administration.

Climate

Holdren to Head White House Science

It appears that another physicist with Nobel ties is set to become the primary Obama adviser on science.

Ecosystems

Thwarting Tree Poachers

A new federal rule makes it harder to destroy protected forests.

Chemistry

ENV Tidbits: Corals, nano concerns, and more

News nuggets on climate-imperiled corals, nanotech worries, and soft drinks bearing pesticides.

Life

Protect biodiversity hot spots and the rest will follow

Climate

Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat— And How to Counter It by Wallace S. Broecker and Robert Kunzig

Hill and Wang, 2008, 253 p., $25.

Climate

Climate change stifling lemmings

Warmer winter temperatures are altering the snowpack, squelching the rodents’ population booms.

Archaeology

Really Cool History

Tales of the black band: Clues to a 4,200-year-old mystery lie frozen in icy records stored atop Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Climate

Eggs, Tea and Mr. IPCC

Even jet-lagged, the world's lead climate negotiator took time out to brief a few reporters.

Climate

The News Climate

Whether people choose to peruse news — and where — may explain what role science plays in shaping public opinion on global warming.

Climate

Cooling climate ‘consensus’ of 1970s never was

Myth often cited by global warming skeptics debunked.

Climate

Glacier melts are erasing climate record

Featured blog: As glaciers continue to dry up, so does any hope of gleaning information from them about the past climate record.