November 25, 2009 | China View

Environmental experts have welcomed a pledge by a leading Chinese climate change negotiator that China will help bring about a meaningful result from next month's climate change summit in Copenhagen, but warned all parties still had a long way to go before reaching a consensus that they could sell to their own people.

November 25, 2009 | Christian Science Monitor

A report Tuesday on the latest climate-change research shows emissions rising quickly and ice caps melting faster than projected. The report comes amid a controversy over hacked scientists’ e-mails that some say point to a global warming hoax.

November 24, 2009 | Xconomy

In a state that prides itself on leadership in tomorrow’s energy technologies, Ian Bowles is the point man. He’s Secretary of Massachusetts’ Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, a new position created under Gov. Deval Patrick to oversee a hodgepodge of state agencies controlling everything from utility regulation to agriculture to the state’s parks and conservation lands, issues close to the hearts of cleantech sector

November 29, 2009 | Milwaukee Joujrnal Sentinel

Garage entrepreneurs in Milwaukee, know full well that their designs for drill bits and cutting tools are good. "It's obvious that these technologies are valid, because people are stealing them and they're in production," says Mirk Buzdum. Their anger isn't directed only at the companies that they say are ripping off their ideas, but on the agency that is supposed to protect them and the rest of the nation's innovators: the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

George Lipper, Editor

It may be the single most important issue with which we've ever dealt. Is global warming a threat to our future? If it is, how long do we have to correct the problem before it's irreversable? If not, how costly will it be to make sure?