According to a group of Norwegian researchers, the prospects for achieving an effective international climate treaty are poor. The measures that are politically feasible are ineffective and the measures that would be effective are politically infeasible. In the project “The nature, design and feasibility of robust climate agreements,” researchers from the Centre for International Climate […]

Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant’s concentrated sun rays — “streamers,” for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair Federal wildlife investigators who visited the BrightSource Energy plant last year and watched as birds burned and fell, […]

IPCC insiders say many of those who shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize have weak scientific credentials. They were chosen because they are of the right gender or come from the right country. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2007. Full credit info at: http://tinyurl.com/IPCC-Nobel Earlier this week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) […]