Tons of plastic trash washing ashore in Washington State

NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center has published its monthly State of the Climate Report.  It pretty much matches the NASA data. An emeritus physics professor writes me cautioning against the use of the word ‘anomaly’ since, “In many people’s mind,...

[12,588 hectares = 48.6 square miles. This afternoon, the sky in Seattle is an eerie, hazy yellow from Siberia smoke carried on the jet stream, the incinerated remains of trees and animals.  This may be the most under-reported story of...

NEW ORLEANS, 29 February 2016 (Associated Press) – The nation's boom in cheap natural gas — often viewed as a clean energy source — is spawning a wave of petrochemical plants that, if built, will emit massive amounts of greenhouse...