Photo: Flickr, CC Solar Power is Hot (But that Phrase is Getting Old) It's good news when many studies say the same thing. At about this time last year, we reported on the Utility Solar Assessment Study, which concluded that 2015 is the year solar power would start to reach grid parity (meaning: it would cost about the same as electricity produced...

Photo via the Consumerist I hate to admit it, but it's true--it's getting harder and harder to hate Wal-Mart. Details are surfacing about the gigantic retailer's initiative to create a massive 'sustainability index'--one that would meticulously measure the environmental impact of every single item it stocks. Needless to say, the idea alone raises ...

Photo via NY Times Even though we've just wrapped up our focus on the worldwide water crisis, we must adress the fact that one of the most volatile regions in the world can add another problem to its miles-long laundry list of them: a dwindling water supply. The Euphrates River is drying up, and it's putting thousands of Iraqis at risk. ... ...

Let's remember that the people who will be worst affected by climate change are likely to be the ones who have the lowest levels of per capita emissions, and the ones least adapt to changing conditions, such as rivers becoming seasonally dry. Photo: Hideyuki Kamon via flickr. The divide between what the world's wealthy nations are willing to commi...

Photo via SMH Golly. Mrs. Palin has a couple problems with the cap and trade plans, dontcha know. Seems it'll be awful expensive, and a little risky--and why bother when there's a big natural gas pipeline we can build, and this Arctic National Wilderness Refuge that's got a whole lot of oil we can use? Plus, coal's getting a whole lot cleaner the...

Michal Czerwonka Public Space as Alternative to Law Enforcement At night, urban parks can become hives for gang activity and violence. A program in Los Angeles, the American gang capital, seeks to combat that phenomenon simply by keeping the lights on until midnight, reports the New York Times. To both locals and police, it's a bright idea. Last y...

Not as literally as this image might indicate... photo: S Woodside via flickr China and India have been calling for more green technology transfer if they are to be part of an international climate change agreement. The chairman of the IPCC, Dr Rajendra Pachauri has said that focussing on green economic growth and tech transfer is the ... ...

Photo via LA Injury Lawyer The stunning fall of AIG has left a number of things in its wake: billions of dollars in bailout money, big questions about federal regulation of investment, and, of course, layoffs. But the latest thing to get the axe might be the most surprising of all: global climate change.... ...

Photo via the AP An invasive species of seaweed has invaded the California coastline, where it's set about blocking out much-needed sunlight from native the native kelp. Now it's endangering entire marine ecosystems that call California kelp forests home, and it's spreading fast. Really fast--the Asian kelp, which is called wakame, and is the stuf...

Photo via Dragonfly 777 Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have just completed a rigorous study of the world's coastal ecosystems, and the results are shocking. The analysis uncovered the single dirtiest, most imperiled coastal ecosystem on earth--and it's right here in the USA. Beating out the sludge-filled Mekong and the polluted Ganges delta, the m...