(NewYorkTimes) WASHINGTON — The federal government will take steps to cut its energy use and reduce its heat-trapping emissions by 28 percent by 2020, compared with 2008 levels, the White House announced on Friday.
The government is the largest user of electricity and fuel in the country, accounting for roughly 1.5 percent of the nation’s annual [...]

Comparing and Graphing Nine Environmental Threats, Researchers Find Unexpected Evils
Publishing in the journal Nature, a group of 29 scientists have established a comparative scale for rating the immediate threat posed by nine environmental hazards–everything from climate change to ocean acidification. And while our warming climate gets most of the attention, more immediate problems may be [...]

The wild fire that threatened Los Angeles this past week is not a typical fire: it’s what is being called a “megafire,” and scientists now say we should brace ourselves for more and more of these fires in the coming years.
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We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth’s climate.
The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has been conceived to [...]

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Closing the carbon pollution loophole will create jobs. It’s that simple.
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In sharp contrast to the low priority the Bush administration gave to global warming, President Obama’s new science adviser said Wednesday that the world’s industrialized nations must immediately cut greenhouse gas emissions to ward off the most extreme effects of climate change. Read entire article here: http://www.sfgate.com