Scott Brown is the toast of the town. Sweeping into Washington on the heels of his election as the newest senator from Massachusetts, he might just be bigger news than Tiger Woods or Conan. Some hope, and others fear, ...READ»
Concerned that the Copenhagen climate change conference has been all for nought (even with Hilary Clinton swooping in to offer developing countries lots of cash)? At the very least, comedian Eugene Mirman has provided us with some ...READ»
It will be hard to make good on the climate negotiations currently being worked out in Copenhagen without readily-accessible information on carbon emissions. One day, the Planetary Skin Institute may provide all the info we need, ...READ»
Today at the COP 15 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, M.I.T. students introduced the technologically advanced Copenhagen Wheel. In addition to including various sensors and Bluetooth capability, the tire stores kinetic energy ...READ»
Artist and architect Maya Lin is perhaps best known for her memorials--a series that includes the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. and the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. Her latest memorial, a multi-sited, ...READ»
Earlier this year, NASA and Cisco announced the launch of Planetary Skin, an ambitious global monitoring system of environmental conditions that uses a worldwide network of sensors to analyze, well, everything happening on the ...READ»
Over dinner at Kronborg castle-- apparently the inspiration for Elsinore, the setting for Hamlet and scene for a special conference of the Copenhagen Climate Council during the UN Climate Summit--two comments struck me. Both of them ...READ»
One of the big issues being hashed out in this week's UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is how to pay for climate change-mitigating technologies in countries that don't have enough cash.READ»
The 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference is halfway through its two-week run. Here is a quick look at what happened in Copenhagen last week, courtesy of Demotix Images.READ»
This morning's espresso-fueled breakfast debate centered on "who really matters" at Copenhagen amongst 15,000 world leaders, negotiators, scientists, business chiefs, NGOs who have descended on Denmark for 2 cold weeks in December.READ»
It's been a day of significant contrasts at Copenhagen as the end of the first week of COP15 draws to a close.
The day started with a clear challenge at the Climate Summit "Business Day" from Yvo de Boer, the UN's chief ...READ»
If you've been following our coverage or have been, say, awake for the past few days, you probably know that there is a fairly monumental climate change conference going on right now in Copenhagen. Delegates from around the world at ...READ»
If a significant climate deal is struck at this month's UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen--and that's a big "if"--world economies will pay the price. The bill has been tallied: $10 trillion in investments in energy ...READ»
Whether a binding climate change agreement will be reached at this week's UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is still up in the air, but at least some progress has been made in the realm of renewable energy. Nine European ...READ»
As the United Nations Climate Change Conference kicks off this week in Copenhagen, Denmark, most of the media's attention is rightfully focused on what will happen--more specifically, whether a binding international climate change ...READ»
