The most hated man in the world right now is a fiftysomething dentist from Minnesota called Walter Palmer. His practice in Bloomington, Minneapolis, has been deluged with hate mail; people are calling for him to be tortured, just like at
In New Hampshire on Tuesday, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton responded to a town hall question on the Keystone XL Pipeline by saying, “when I become president, I will answer your question.” While on the same day, donning the same
A Pinellas County, Florida, environmental specialist was recently recorded in a video telling a resident that it was somehow illegal for the smoke from his home barbecue to leave his property.
Hundreds of Cal Water customers in a portion of Los Altos were at risk of being sickened by traces of the E. coli bacteria and total coliform in their water this weekend.
An El Niño forming off of the Pacific Coast could morph into the largest weather event of its kind in recorded history.
Earlier this year, I reported how a handful of green activists at the University of Western Australia had nixed a $4-million policy centre just because it was vaguely associated with “Skeptical Environmentalist” Bjørn Lomborg.
Firefighters have been working over the weekend to battle several intense fires that had broken out in California in what officials have long feared could be an intense, drought-fueled fire season.
According to Sacramento utility officials, over 3.3 million gallons of water were lost last year due to leakages from the city’s water system.
Summertime means “smogtime” for the Alamo City. With all the measurements over the last three years, San Antonio registers the 2nd worst air quality in the entire state; slightly worse than Houston, and Dallas holds the “distinction” of having the worst air quality in the entire Lone Star State.
In an attempt to curb the city’s public urination problem, San Francisco has painted nine of its most pissing-prone walls with pee-repellant paint. When someone urinates on these specially-painted walls, the pee sprays right back onto their shoes and pants, soaking them.
A Cambridge professor whose doomsday predictions of Arctic ice melt have been proved consistently wrong by reality has found an exciting new way to draw attention to his shaky scientific cause: mysterious, unnamed figures are trying to murder him and
On Wednesday, a cyclist traveling through the Hulls Gulch Reserve in Boise, Idaho, started a 73-acre fire when he burned the toilet paper he used after pooping in the forest.
Apologies for the lack of posts over the last couple of weeks but I’ve been busy interviewing for the job of chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It’s not the money and the jet-setting lifestyle that attract me
Despite repeated threats, local police seem powerless to stop tourists from taking a plunge into Roman fountains in one of Rome’s hottest summers on record.
The Santa Barbara City Council voted unanimously this week to approve a loan to reopen a mothballed desalination plant in an effort to battle California’s record four-year drought.
A two-day Vatican workshop on climate change and human trafficking came to a close Wednesday after a like-minded group of some 60 mayors from around the world met with Church officials and United Nations representatives to discuss a coordinated response to environmental challenges.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, late as usual, arrived in Rome Tuesday morning to pontificate at the Vatican about the dangers of climate change.
The San Diego County Water Authority not only won $190 million last week from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, but may have also won $2 billion in future costs savings and another 5 percent of all “Met” water that is currently being wholesaled to the other 25 other Southern California water districts.
In an almost unheard-of action for a Wall Street investment banking firm, UBS downgraded Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA-$267.39) to a “sell”, driving the price of the shares down 5.5 percent, or -15.49.
California Governor Jerry Brown mounted his bully pulpit at the Vatican Tuesday, citing the Bible and excoriating climate change skeptics as greedy swindlers more interested in profits from oil than the well-being of humanity.
California’s record four-year drought will have little impact on the state’s overall economy, according to credit rating agency Moody’s.
Tuesday at a climate summit at the Vatican, Gov. Jerry Brown (D-CA) said warned of extinction when talking about climate change. Brown said, “We don’t even know how far we’ve gone, or if we’ve gone over the edge. There are
The American news network CBS has been accused of “lying” in a report on climate change in Greenland. The network ran an article claiming that Greenland has seen a whopping 62°F increase in summer temperatures over the last eight years;
A man from the tiny Central Pacific nation of Kiribati has failed in his attempt to be classed as the world’s first “climate refugee”. Ioane Teitiota, 38, tried to persuade New Zealand’ Supreme Court that his homeland had become unsafe
WEST LIBERTY, Iowa—Rod Webber of Massachusetts attended an event with GOP presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee Friday morning and attempted to challenge the former Baptist pastor on the bible and certain versus Webber believed didn’t fit with the Republican Party.
