The country has long been a model for common-sense public policy. But this week’s fires have revealed once again that its pragmatism stops at climate change.
Climate change poses a major threat to the health of the world's children and may shape the future of a whole generation if global temperatures are not kept well below 2°C.
Researchers are only beginning to understand the risks associated with dust from the West's dry lakebeds. Dust from the Salton Sea and Great Salt Lake could carry toxic pollution.
The Thai government has asked farmers in 22 provinces to not grow off-season rice, as the country braced for a dry spell amid low water levels in main reservoirs.
American industry, aided by federal regulators, is conducting a large-scale, consequential experiment with our hormones and the developing brains and reproductive systems of our children.
Jim Inhofe, the Senate's unwavering climate denier, turns 85 on Sunday. I requested a Q&A with him when he turns 100 to see how the "hoax" has turned out.
