Topic: Mark Clayton

Looking back: The Monitor's coverage of 9/11

A selected archive of The Monitor's coverage of 9/11 and beyond.

High gas prices: Want to be a cool 'hypermiler'?

Gas is back at $4 a gallon, but Americans aren't slowing down yet. We have to make fuel efficiency cool. Here's how.

Computers vs. humans: the electronic brains are the vulnerable ones

In fact and fiction, we worry about menacing computers like HAL of '2001.' But the rise of cyber threats show how vulnerable the super brains really are.

Top 5 overlooked stories of 2010

Here are five 2010 developments that probably didn't get as much attention as they should have, given their potential import to America in the years ahead.

Electric cars: Considering a Volt or Leaf? Lease it.

Electric cars are coming this fall. But with many unknowns, it could be more prudent to lease than buy a Chevy Volt or Nissan Leaf.

Six lessons from the BP oil spill

What the tragedy of the BP oil spill has taught us about regulations, technology, and how our energy diet must change.

Letters to the editor

Readers write in about shortchanging Earth, the best move for Republicans, the true purpose of cooperatives, and Iran.

Today's climate news

Today's climate news includes the Copenhagen conference, the EPA announcement on carbon dioxide, and more.

Ways to help wildlife adapt to a warmer world

As the world gets warmer, strategies for helping wildlife adapt.

Unfriend: Oxford's 2009 Word of the Year

'Unfriend' follows hypermiling, 2008's word of the year choice.

Talk to the Editor with John Yemma for September 24: Green Energy

Today's news briefing: A bid for Opel, a blockade in Somalia, and the president of Macedonia sits down with the Monitor

Integrated solar panels get a boost

EPA and CO2: If the right hand don't get you, the left one might

Letters to the Editor

Readers write about respect for the members of the US Armed Services, the effect of global warming on Canada's boreal forests, and how churches can keep their congregants.

Obama halts some of Bush's 'midnight rules'

Only hours into his presidency, Barack Obama has ordered a freeze on all the new and pending federal regulations that the Bush administration pushed through in its final days.

Coal ash legislation introduced in House

Following last month's major coal-ash spill in Harriman, Tennesse, a West Virginia lawmaker has introduced legislation to set federal standards for storing the toxic waste produced by burning coal.

Letters to the Editor

Readers write about the need for US aid to reach South Ossetia as well as Georgia, mayoral term limits, and the importance of infrared emissions in cooling a home.

'Hypermiler' driving tips

Bush's climate goals vague – but a start

His call for US emissions to stabilize by 2025 marks a policy change, but is still behind other nations.