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Opinion: Shedding Some Light on Earth Hour

(March 27) -- Tonight, millions of Americans will be sitting in the dark. It will be a power outage of sorts, though a self-inflicted one. Saturday night at 8:30 p.m. is Earth Hour, a semi-regular observance coordinated by the World Wildlife Fund in which homeowners, businesses and people running various landmarks like...

UN Climate Chief Won't Resign Over Glacier Warning

LONDON (Jan. 23) -- It sounds like the plot of a Hollywood disaster movie: Central and Southern Asia are hit by biblical floods when the Himalayan glaciers suddenly melt. After that cataclysm, water no longer flows from the mountains, leaving rivers like the Mekong and Ganges dry and millions facing permanent drought. That...

Climate Change About More Than Hugging Trees

WASHINGTON (Nov. 12) -- The United States is in "a defensive crouch" on climate change that threatens its national security and must go on the offense by signing an agreement to combat global warming at an international conference in Copenhagen next month, reporters were told here. "Climate change would act as a threat...