News Watch: NASA’s rover, Curiosity, made a successful landing on Mars earlier this week. Some scientists say the car-sized rover, the most high-tech ever designed by the space agency, could have a lot to tell us about our own climate. As Mother Jones reports, scientists have made great strides in predicting what will happen to our climate, but we only have one

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BBC: Comments by the US climate envoy last week discussing the value of the 2C target in international climate change negotiations have provoked quite a response. Todd Stern, who leads the US negotiating team in the UN climate convention (UNFCCC) and performed the same role at the recent Rio+20 summit, told an audience at Dartmouth

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Huffington post: Reality can be profoundly persuasive. As Americans sweat out one of the hottest summers on record, we’ve watched in dismay as drought has withered endless acres of crops and pushed the federal government to declare “natural” disasters in more than half the nation’s counties. As temperatures have shot up, so has the number

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The Bhutanese: The Gasa-Tongchudrak farm road between Gasa and Laya was Lyonchhen Jigmi Y. Thinley’s promise to the people of Laya during the Mid-Term Review. It so happens, the PM just might not be able to keep his words, that is if the National Environment Commission (NEC) has its way. Conservationists through a recent Environment

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The Augustine News: Mercury in this mountainous region has been climbing, with more warming there in recent decades than in most other places on Earth. “Temperatures are rising fast at high elevations,” says David Molden, director general of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development in Kathmandu, Nepal. But the heat-up isn’t limited to temperatures.

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PJ Media: Subjected to a continual bombardment of catastrophism from climate activists, the public can be forgiven for assuming that recent extreme weather events, especially heat waves in North America, are unusual. Citizens would have little reason to suspect that most records for these phenomena were set many years ago. But they were. A quick

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