A 3-foot sea level rise means the end of development as we know it on the 20 or so barrier islands that make up the 350 mile-long North Carolina coast.
How climate change has accelerated beyond some of the grimmest warnings made in 1997. NC WARN Executive Director Jim Warren responds in a letter to The News & Observer.
Column by Gwynne Dyer: Patching together an inadequate climate treaty at Copenhagen just to avoid the stigma of failure would repeat the mistake of 1997.
Burning fossil fuels costs the U.S $120 billion a year in health costs, mostly because of thousands of premature deaths from air pollution, the National Academy of Sciences reported Monday.
