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07.28.2008 5:14 pm

Energy exploration still yielding new discoveries

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

GreenlandMost 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…

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07.11.2008 1:15 pm

Which candidate shares your views?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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06.24.2008 9:01 pm

Wednesday editorial: Global warming turns 20

calving1_opt.jpgTwenty 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,…

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06.06.2008 9:00 pm

The Platform Presents: St. Louis Zoo 2033

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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06.02.2008 8:43 pm

An Inconvenient Truth (the opera)

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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

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05.31.2008 9:00 pm

Sunday Editorial: Serious for a change

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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…

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05.18.2008 9:00 pm

Monday editorial: Canary on an ice floe

polar_opt.jpgCaught between a federal judge’s order and a mountain of accumulating scientific evidence, the Bush administration reluctantly listed polar bears as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act. But the administration pointedly refuses to address the threat that imperils the bears and…

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04.21.2008 9:00 pm

Tuesday editorial: Tepid on warming

President George W. Bush clings to his belief in free markets the way a drowning man clings to a potential rescuer.

Most of the time, that’s good — or at least it’s not bad. Markets are the best way to…

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04.03.2008 11:54 am

Polar bears and oil leases

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Polar bears are threatened by global warming, which is melting the ice pack on which they hunt and live. Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey predict that two-thirds of the world’s polar bears could be extinct by 2050. In January 2007, The…

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