CLIMATE WATCH - “I’m absolutely convinced we will get a low-carbon, no-carbon economy at some point in time.

CLIMATE WATCH - Australia’s federal election May 18th turned left with a new power broker named climate change.

CLIMATE WATCH - In case you have lingering doubts about the reality of human-caused global warming, hop on an airplane to parts of India or Pakistan and spend a few days.

GUEST COMMENTARY - This November, the Massachusetts electorate will vote on a ballot initiative that will have profound consequences:

CLIMATE WATCH - Woody biomass, or burning trees to produce renewable energy, is spreading beyond the shores of Europe, where it’s wildly popular and outpacing solar and wind.

CLIMATE WATCH - The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) recently dropped a bombshell announcement that should have garnered news headlines in the major global and U.S. media, but did not.

CLIMATE WATCH - Deaths from exposure to emissions from vehicles, smokestacks, and wildfires have increased by more than 50 percent this century, with poorer countries bearing the brunt of the impacts.

DRINKABLE WATER - The California Coastal Commission tonight rejected the proposed construction of a desalination plant in Huntington Beach, sealing the controversial project’s fate after more than 20 years of debate.

CLIMATE WATCH - The planet is wheezing, coughing and sputtering because of vicious attacks by worldwide droughts aided and abetted by global warming at only 1.2C above baseline.

CLIMATE POLITICS - As energy- and climate-related legislation passes through committees in the California legislature, some lawmakers are refusing to vote on bills critical to the state’s transition from fossil fuels.

CLIMATE WATCH - America’s western metropolises are thriving in the midst of the fiercest drought in over 1,000 years.

THE ENVIRONMENT - The Japanese government’s decision one year ago to dump radioactive water from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant storage tanks into the Pacific Ocean,