The year of living greenly. A family in New York City set out on a yearlong experiment to make no net impact on the environment. They gave up elevators and taxis and toilet paper. A year later, they're different. [News Source]

An isolated village finds the energy to keep going. Visitors to a remote village in Colombia can get a glimpse into a four-decade experiment to alter civilization’s dependence on finite fossil fuels and industrial agriculture. [News Source]

Global warming: Four degrees of devastation. The prospect of a four-degree Celsius rise in global average temperatures in 50 years is alarming — but not alarmist, climate scientists now believe. Rising carbon emissions and inability to agree on cuts has meant science must now consider the previously unthinkable. [News Source]

GM can help tackle food shortages: Burke. Australians have been told they will need to embrace genetically modified foods as the world faces an uphill struggle to feed its growing population. [News Source]

Climate change just one factor in coastal erosion. The Paraná River delta in eastern Argentina is the only one in the world that is not disappearing, and that is due to deforestation for cultivating soybeans, explains geologist Jorge Codignotto, a former member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. [News Source]

The spread of new diseases: The climate connection. A growing body of research suggests that microbes in bats — as well as other pathogens that jump from animals to people — are spreading more rapidly because of climate change and deforestation. [News Source]

The year of living greenly. A family in New York City set out on a yearlong experiment to make no net impact on the environment. They gave up elevators and taxis and toilet paper. A year later, they're different. [News Source]

An isolated village finds the energy to keep going. Visitors to a remote village in Colombia can get a glimpse into a four-decade experiment to alter civilization’s dependence on finite fossil fuels and industrial agriculture. [News Source]

Global warming: Four degrees of devastation. The prospect of a four-degree Celsius rise in global average temperatures in 50 years is alarming — but not alarmist, climate scientists now believe. Rising carbon emissions and inability to agree on cuts has meant science must now consider the previously unthinkable. [News Source]

Problems plague launch of ‘safer’ next-generation reactors. The executives of electric utilities worldwide are dreaming of a renaissance in nuclear power. But problems with a new, state-of-the-art reactor in Finland suggest that this is unlikely to happen. The industry's alternative strategy is to modernize older plants to drastically extend reactor lifetimes. First of two parts. [News Source]

A forest and a ‘carbon sink’ grow on Vashon. A barren pit on Vashon Island is turning into an experiment in restoring the landscape, while getting greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. The key to this change: dirt. [News Source]