
Mama Summit pushes clean air, climate action
Virginia grandparents, moms, dads, and kids traveled to the General Assembly Building to demand climate action from state lawmakers at the Mama Summit.

Virginia grandparents, moms, dads, and kids traveled to the General Assembly Building to demand climate action from state lawmakers at the Mama Summit.

A new report by the Sierra Club finds that pollution from two proposed pipelines would almost double the total emissions from existing power plants in Virginia.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders raised issue with the campaign of Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton for her lack of substance on climate change.

On Dec. 12, 195 countries assembled at the COP21 Climate Conference in Paris produced a 32-page agreement outlining goals to phase out CO2 emissions.

Well before the final negotiations of the COP21 climate talks in Paris, business was already making a big difference on the ground.

Youth movements to address global climate change can wield great power. One group is suing the U.S. government for not doing enough to ensure a safe planet for future generations; another cohort is on the ground in Paris, pressing the countries of the world to do the same.

A professor in Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment is launching a new project to enable scientists to look many decades ahead and predict the effectiveness of land management practices in agriculture and forestry to mitigate climate change.

Laura Dansby, chair of the Climate Action Alliance of the Valley, released the responses her organization received from a questionnaire it sent to 13 area candidates running in this fall’s election.

It is with great interest that I see I have become one of Christopher Monckton’s targets and that he has posted editorials attacking me, including one in this paper.

“Global warming has not stopped.” In fact, though a third of Man’s influence on climate has happened since 1997, the least-squares linear-regression trends on the UAH and RSS satellite records show no global warming for 18 years 5 months and 18 years 7 months respectively. The pause in global warming is old enough to vote.
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