Stories by Douglas Fischer

Pollen season is lengthening in proportion to warming observed in North America

A multi-agency effort to nail down the social cost of carbon emissions ignores wrenching climate impacts such as ocean acidification and makes efforts to curb emissions seem disproportionately expensive, economists say

Forests play a key role in offsetting U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases, but that ability may shrink as the climate changes

New analyses predict health savings from more aggressive reductions in the greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change

Flipping off the lights is not the best way to save energy

Glaciers in one of the world's last tropical ice caps will be gone within a matter of years

Low-tech approach spreads climate news in rural countries

Cryptococcal infection, once thought to be an exclusively tropical disease, has killed 60 people in the Pacific Northwest as of July, and health experts suspect climate change is involved

From heat stress to sewage overflows, climate change promises to bring extreme weather that will challenge the ill-prepared U.S. public health infrastructure

An academic inquiry cleared climate scientist Michael Mann of any academic misconduct arising from leaked e-mails

A new report argues that green building standards are weighted too heavily toward energy conservation

Local governments serve as idea labs for federal lawmakers as they consider changes to national climate and energy reform

Two reports from the federal government suggest that investing in environmentally friendly technologies and practices boost the economy and reduce pollution

Global warming has neither stopped nor slowed in the past decade, according to a draft analysis of temperature data by the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Researchers must purge e-mail in-boxes daily of threatening correspondence, simply part of the job of being a climate scientist

The Obama administration says no, California says yes. Who is right?

Todd Stern now thinks the most effective way forward to reining in climate change is via a smaller group of major carbon-emitting countries

A new study quantifies for the first time what happens to long-term policy options if mid-term emissions targets are not met

The "new energy" economy rolls forward even as hopes for an international deal to combat climate change at Copenhagen shift into reverse.

Can geoengineering buy time to combat climate change?

Local governments vow to press ahead with emissions reductions regardless of the outcome at the upcoming international Copenhagen talks. Can those efforts carry the day?

The planet's quickening pace toward irreversible climate change grows far more dire if world leaders fail to find a way to stem emissions this December, experts warn.

Organizers of 350 Day aim to stabilize the planet and prevent disaster. Turns out many more are paying attention than expected

New research from the University of Alaska Fairbanks suggests Arctic waters are already seeing the effects of acidification, with potentially dire consequences to Alaska's rich crab and salmon fisheries