Who wants a drumstick? The six-foot-tall phorusrhacos longissimus roamed what is now Argentina during the Middle Miocene.

People often talk as if warming temperatures are the only evidence of human-induced global climate change. But the amount of carbon dioxide in the…

A home destroyed by beach erosion in the Alaskan village of Shishmaref. It was evacuated because of global warming.

When President Barack Obama was in Copenhagen on Oct. 2, he was trying to attract an Olympic Games for Chicago.
Next time, he…

Dean Cornwell, "The Conquest of Yellow Fever," Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

I’ve been re-reading “The Path Between the Seas,” David McCullough’s masterful history of the Panama Canal. In some ways, it’s less timely now than when it was published…

Close up view of a Chinese mystery snail.

As threats go, being overrun by an invasive snail species is about as frightening as, say, being run over by a glacier.
But that — the snail invasion, not the runaway glacier — is…

Climate change is an urgent national security issue. So says a recent National Intelligence Assessment and an influential group of retired military officers and defense experts at the Center for Naval Analysis, a nonprofit policy analysis group.
Left unchecked, they say, global…

The future according to Blaine

Our new favorite member of Congress, Blaine Luetkemeyer, is  warning that “the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. . .receives millions of dollars a year in your taxes to promote a liberal agenda of taxing…

For the first time, someone has put a price on what Americans are willing to pay to protect their children and grandchildren from the effects of global warming: $18.75 a month.

The effort began with a Washington Post/ABC News poll last week…

Remember all that talk about how global warming was going to change our lives? It already has.
A new federal report on the impact of climate change condenses the latest science from a variety of disciplines. Among the findings:
• Heavy downpours are…

The House Energy and Commerce Committee last week took a major step toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It approved a bill that would cap releases of heat-trapping gases and create a national market to trade pollution credits.
The bill comes on the…

It’s Earth Day today, as we note in an editorial and a commentary today. Both pieces note how far we have to go as a society to become better stewards of the Earth. U.S. News and World Report had a neat list of 10…

Today is Earth Day. But you already knew that.

You knew it because Earth Day has become Earth Week — a hybrid of selfless environmental activism and shameless marketing opportunism. If the original was a media sensation, this latest version is an…

Illinois sits atop the nation’s second-largest coal reserves. Whether that fuel represents the nation’s energy future or its past is the subject of an increasingly bitter debate playing out over the nation’s airwaves.
Industry groups have been working hard to sell…

Steven Chu

On Monday, President-elect Barack Obama named Steven Chu, winner of the Nobel Prize for physics, as his choice to lead the Department of Energy. It’s hard to imagine a greater contrast between Mr. Chu and the man he probably…

With most of the nation focused on a historic presidential campaign and election, Bush administration officials have been busy preparing parting gifts for their friends in private industry.
They’re scrambling to rewrite scores of federal regulations. Among the goals: to allow…

Most people probably believe that the age of exploration — at least on this planet — ended long ago. It’s tempting to assume that with today’s advanced technology, every corner of the earth has been mapped, scanned, and scoured for every…

USA Today’s website has a “Candidate Match Game” which allows you to determine which presidential candidate most shares your views via a neat interactive tool.

There are twelve “statements,” in four separate categories, and for each you can use a slide rule…

Twenty years ago this week, a then-unknown NASA scientist named James E. Hansen ushered global warming from the realm of climatology into the hot house of public policy.
He did it in testimony before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, delivered…

Here’s how the Red State Update boys see global warming.

The U.S. Senate Monday is scheduled to begin debating a bill to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Known as the Climate Security Act, it is a serious response to global warming that is long overdue.
The Senate debate comes on the heels…