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A newly released paper from NASA shows something astronomers have long postulated, but never observed. Astronomers witnessed odd behavior around a young star. Something, perhaps another star or a planet, appears to be pushing a clump of planet-forming material around. The observations, made with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, offer a rare look into the early ...read more

Getty Images The needs of the environment, said the California gubernatorial candidate Margaret C. Whitman, “have to be balanced with the needs of our people.” Margaret C. Whitman, the former chief executive of eBay who declared her candidacy for the California governorship on Tuesday, hopes to roll back California’s law requiring deep cuts in ...read more

Getty Images The needs of the environment, said the California gubernatorial candidate Margaret C. Whitman, “have to be balanced with the needs of our people.” Margaret C. Whitman, the former chief executive of eBay who declared her candidacy for the California governorship on Tuesday, hopes to roll back California’s law requiring deep cuts in ...read more

Coyote Springs Land Company And a new home for solar power. What to do when building a 159,000-home city in the Nevada desert and the housing market collapses? Go solar. The Coyote Springs Land Company this week expanded a deal with BrightSource Energy, a solar power developer based in Oakland, Calif., to carve out 12 square miles ...read more

Photo: David Birkbeck / Istock related articles By Dan Shapley A new scientific report that ranks 10 world cities for their contribution to global warming has a surprising conclusion: Denver is the most-polluting city. By a long shot. Denver’s per capita greenhouse gas emissions were twice the median, and four-times as much as the lowest-emitting city on the list, ...read more

When it comes to reducing CO2, we almost always talk about power plants and vehicles. But a new study by the EPA (pdf) shows that, if you consider the whole life-cycle, a huge chunk of greenhouse gas emissions (42%) are caused by the way people in the US “procure, produce, deliver and dispose of goods ...read more

SAN JOSE, CA — A combination of energy efficiency, renewable energy and promotion of more environmentally friendly behavior will be used to cut eBay’s greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent by 2012. The e-commerce giant unveiled its first greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal this week in ...read more

Scientists have unearthed striking evidence for a sudden ancient collapse in plant biodiversity. A trove of 200 million-year-old fossil leaves collected in East Greenland tells the story, carrying its message across time to us today. Results of the research appear in this week's issue of the journal Science. The researchers were surprised to find that ...read more

Shutterstock Should “even-age” forest management be part of a carbon offset protocol? Air regulators in California are poised to adopt a new framework for measuring and managing greenhouse gas offsets associated with forest projects. But some environmental groups are balking at a provision that they say leads to the unhealthy practice of clear-cutting — or ...read more

Pacific Gas & Electric, the big California utility, has pulled out of the United States Chamber of Commerce, due to what its chairman, Peter Darbee, termed “fundamental differences” over the climate change issue. In a letter to the Chamber — a business group that has often been a vocal critic of President Obama’s policies to ...read more