New test for developers in Maine: climate change

Huge development around Moosehead Lake would create 500,000 tons of CO2 over 50 years, environmentalists say.

Drain on the Mediterranean: rising water usage

In a dramatic illustration of a broader regional crisis, a Turkish lake three times the size of Washington, D.C., has dried up in the past 15 years.

The storied Mediterranean faces climate change

In the first of a four-part series, the Monitor examines the impact of man-made pressures on the region.

Will nations build on climate-change momentum of 2007?

California's data challenges EPA

The Golden State filed suit on Wednesday for the right to limit greenhouse-gas emissions from autos.

America: Step up on climate change

Global warming is the nuclear issue of our age.

What Bush really won in Bali

For the first time, all nations said they will consider ways to reduce global warming – as Bush sought.

A big chill for global warming

A techno-fix to quickly cool the planet needs research in light of new data that climate change is coming fast.

A dirty way to fight climate change

A promising strategy: Store carbon in the soil.

A tax on carbon to cool the planet

Forcing higher prices for fossil fuels would be simple, fair, and effective. Why do politicians fear to do it?

Cranberries are headed north

Farmers see signs that the climate-sensitive cold-loving berries are shifting their range into Canada. Blueberries, too. What's to be done?

Be wary of complex carbon caps

The global-warming fight can't wait to work out the kinks in a cap-and-trade scheme.

Charismatic bears on thin ice

As the Arctic heats up sooner than scientists anticipated, animals like the polar bear are losing ground.

New tool to fight global warming: Endangered Species Act?

A recent deal to protect the habitat of endangered coral may offer US environmentalists new leverage.