Topic: Eoin O'Carroll

Attack of the climate spam?

Keep tabs on energy use with Microsoft's Hohm

Friday's coverage agenda: Iran votes, China censors, Security Council meets

Have you seen this?

Environment news you may have missed.

You just bought a car company. Now what?

My part in micro-economics: backyard chickens

Climate change could be 'irreversible' for 1,000 years? Gulp!

Rather than a call to throw up one's hands in discouragement, the results show the importance of acting quickly to reduce emissions and so limit the very long-lived effects

Light pollution becomes a polarizing issue

Polarized light -- the kind of reflected light polarized sunglasses reduce -- has serious effects on creatures who use it but get bamboozled by polarized light reflecting off of engineered surfaces.

What's the answer to protecting plants while melting snow?

Is sand really better for plants and the environment than snow-melting chemicals?

Formal human 'fingerprints' on polar climate

A gnarlier 'hockey stick,' the same message

'Pristine' environments and sustainability

Now you see it, now you don't (nearly as much)

Digging up the dirt on Arctic carbon

The concern: As the Arctic continues to warm and the permafrost begins to thaw, significant amounts of carbon will find their way into the atmosphere.

Newly built dream homes and harm's way

Watching Topical Storm Faye sweep through Florida, I'm reminded of HGTV's Dream Home 2008 grand prize.

Return of the cloud colossi

The lawn mower as style statement

Can lawn mowers combine style with environmental qualities?