Global Warming

Agriculture is an undervalued and underestimated climate change tool that could be one of the most powerful strategies in the fight against global warming.

The USDA’s Rural Development program is to award $35 million in grants and loan guarantees to agricultural producers and small business to convert to alternative energies or improve their energy efficiency.

The mystery of fertility in newly exposed land, covered for thousands of years by glaciers, is now partially solved by findings of cyanobacteria.

Today’s competing carbon exchange organizations shy away from “anyway credits,” which include rewards for agricultural practices sequestering carbon, emissions reductions that may happen whether or not farmers get financial perks.

It’s estimated that cow-produced methane accounts for up to 20 percent of worldwide emissions of this major greenhouse gas.

Despite a pledge to ramp up efforts to encourage and fund green industry in an effort to curb global warming, the World Bank continues to support projects—such as the new Tata Ultra Mega coal-fired power plant in western India.

All those “Made in China” stickers stuck on the bottom of products flooding American and European markets add up to a whopping one third of China’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Consumers overwhelmed by what they perceive as the demands of “green living.”

Americans living in the suburbs around cities have been feeling more financial pressure as the cost of fuel rises.

Canada's Competition Bureau has come up with new rules regarding the labeling of products as eco-friendly.