Giving back to the Earth. As a scientist who studies climate change, Hadi Dowlatabadi is acutely aware of the harmful effects on the environment from human activities that release carbon dioxide in the air. [News Source]

Are floods getting worse? For victims, the big flood is really only as big as the mud in the basement. [News Source]

Impact from new power plant would be widespread. Concern over air pollution is at center of the debate. [News Source]

Lawmakers launch green bills. California environmentalists and Democratic lawmakers have embarked on an ambitious campaign to catapult the state ahead of the nation on a number of green initiatives. [News Source]

California’s auto attack is bad for all industries. California's crusade against the car companies has made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and other industries and consumers could be hurt if a ruling goes the wrong way. [News Source]

Saving the earth but trashing the yard. Over the last few years, the weather seems increasingly spotty. [News Source]

Fight warming by emitting less carbon dioxide. The danger signals of global warming are all around us -- from the melting snows of Mount Kilimanjaro to the projected increase in ferocity of hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico. [News Source]

Supreme court interest in emissions will assess evidence of warming. The U.S. Supreme Court's willingness to hear the case of 12 states wanting more regulation of air pollution from cars and power plants takes the greenhouse effect and global warming out of the realm of speculation. [News Source]

Is ethanol really energy solution? More and more leaders outside of environmental circles are looking to the nation's cornfields these days to solve the United States' energy problems. [News Source]

The problem with global-warming cures (NorthJersey.com) THANKS TO Al Gore's movie, the global-warming debate is back on our political radar screen. We can let the scientists sort out the accuracy of his vision of a world tilting toward ruin. [News Source]

Cycle of life in ocean now reaching extremes. The ocean is behaving strangely along the west coast in the latest of a string of unusual years, with scientists reporting crashing bird populations off California for the second consecutive year and hiccups in the nutrients that feed marine life off Oregon. [News Source]