This blog was originally posted Nov 20, 2012 by Chad Kruger here.

While the East Coast still struggled to recover from Superstorm Sandy, a Nov. 13^th Climate Risk Roundtable convened in San Francisco to explore the challenges of keeping society’s vital systems running as the climate grows more turbulent.

A new expert report warns that the dramatic increases in coal train traffic from the proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal may severely damage property values along the proposed route

Climate and clean energy policies are a boon to Massachusetts economy.

The Soil Carbon Challenge is a “competition to see how fast land managers can turn atmospheric carbon into soil organic matter. If you want to find out how fast a human can run 100 meters, do you build a computer model, do a literature search, or convene a panel of experts on human physiology to make a prediction? No, you run a race. Or a series of them.”

The following, an excerpt of an open letter to BNSF CEO Matthew Rose, was published in

On a marine wildlife cruise in Alaska recently I got to touch a sea otter pelt–it was so luxuriously soft my knees almost buckled with pleasure. A new study found that these critters are not only super-cuddly, they also play an outsized role in sucking up carbon from the atmosphere and storing it safely away in the sea.

Congratulations to the Willamette Partnership, a

Lost in the current debate over how best to control greenhouse gas emissions from combustion of fossil fuels is the simple fact that it won’t be en

Biochar has had an interesting run over the past several years. As with so many other emerging climate solutions, biochar burst into public aw