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  • Yale Study Finds Nearly One-Quarter of Americans Are Climate Deniers

    The good news is that most Americans—63 percent—believe global warming is happening. That figure has been steady since last spring. However, the disheartening part of a joint report from Yale and George Mason universities centers on climate deniers. The amount of people who do not believe global warming is happening has increased by 7 percentage points to…

  • Soil Microbes Alter DNA in Response to Climate Change

    A 10-year study of soil ecosystems has determined that microbes alter their genetic code in response to a warming climate so they can process excess carbon being absorbed by plants from the atmosphere, a team of U.S. researchers reports in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. [caption id="attachment_318537" align="alignnone" width="500"] New research shows soil microbes can alter their DNA…

  • How Climate Change is Impacting Thoreau’s Walden Pond

    By Tim Radford Walden, where Henry David Thoreau planted beans on land that had yielded only cinquefoil, blackberries, johnswort and sweet wild fruits, is changing. The trees and shrubs around Walden Pond are now out on average 18 days earlier than 150 years ago, when Thoreau made his observations. And, according to U.S. scientists in…

  • Drought Emergency Declared in California as Residents Urge Halt to Fracking

    The state of California formally declared a drought emergency today due to a lack of winter rainfall and water reserves at only 20 percent of normal levels. This is the third year of dry conditions across California, which poses a threat to the state’s economy and environment. [caption id="attachment_318398" align="alignnone" width="500"] In addition to concerns about having…

  • Slideshow: Direct Action to Stop Keystone XL South at the White House

    You wouldn’t know it from the lack of focus and attention by the environmental establishment, but the 485-mile southern leg of TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline has been built, is being filled and is scheduled to start up on Jan. 22. Front line reports from landowners in Texas and Oklahoma say that TransCanada has patrol…