Global warming has probably made Hurricane Gustav a bit stronger and wetter, some top scientists said Sunday, but the specific connection between climate change and stronger hurricanes remains an issue of debate. ...more

September 1, 2008

Well. That sure was a whole lot of nothing. As looming emergencies go, Pasco has more to worry about come Tuesday's primary election day than it ever did from Tropical Storm Fay. ...more

August 20, 2008

Five years after the worst blackout in North American history, the country's largest power providers say the problems that turned out the lights on 50 million people have largely been resolved, but they fear that larger, systemic issues could soon lead to even bigger and more damaging outages. ...more

August 14, 2008

Parts of the Endangered Species Act may soon be extinct. The Bush administration wants federal agencies to decide for themselves whether highways, dams, mines and other construction projects might harm endangered animals and plants. New regulations, which don't require the approval of Congress, would reduce the mandatory, independent reviews government scientists have been performing for 35 years, according to a draft first obtained by The Associated Press. ...more

August 12, 2008

Jorgen Peder Steffensen made me an offer I couldn't refuse: "If you come to Copenhagen, I will show you a Christmas snow - a real Christmas snow, the snow that fell between 1 B.C. and 1 A.D." ...more

August 6, 2008

Two weeks after winning state approval to build two nuclear reactors north of Crystal River in Levy County, Progress Energy Florida took its proposal to federal regulators on Friday and asked for their OK. ...more

August 2, 2008

Progress Energy Florida, Central Florida's largest electricity provider, said today it filed an application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build two nuclear reactors on a 5,000-acre site in southern Levy County about 10 miles north of Crystal River. ...more

August 1, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Bradley Arthur was sweaty enough to enter a wet T-shirt contest. That happens when you spend hours under the sun forging metal with power tools. ...more

August 1, 2008

Former Vice President Al Gore said on Thursday that Americans must abandon fossil fuels within a decade and rely on the sun, the wind and other environmentally friendly sources of power, or risk losing their national security as well as their creature comforts. ...more

July 18, 2008

President Bush's snarky comment at the end of a private meeting with world leaders shows why the United States' international standing faces low tide. ...more

July 16, 2008