A storm packing blustery winds and driving rain knocked out power to thousands of homes and businesses in the Northeast on Thursday before giving way to sunny skies and record high temperatures - all in the same morning.

Climate skeptics, people who doubt the science on global warming, must not be allowed to sabotage U.N. climate talks which start next week, Britain's Energy and Climate Secretary said Thursday.

A small group of indigenous people have travelled here to the historic Copenhagen climate talks to show negotiators dramatic documentary videos they made about the immediate impacts of climate change on their homelands and way of life.

The news isn't good: we're losing the battle of global warming. Now mankind is going to have to learn to adapt to the changes. Not what we wanted to hear.

Alarming news: thanks to a tiny minority of conservative Democrats, the public option could be dead within days. But Harry Reid can still save it, and we need him to act fast. Can you sign an emergency petition to Sen. Reid today ?

The committee is well aware that history is contingent and that Obama might fail. It knows very well that the same country that elected Obama also gave the world George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan.

And so we're left with no other justification other than to peg his obstructionism as sheer hubris and drama queen posturing. With every month that goes by without health care reform, another 3,600 Americans die due to a lack of insurance.

Former CIA officer Larry Johnson of NoQuarter blog was on Countdown Thursday and spoke with Keith about the Bush Administration's feeble attempts to convince the American public of Iran's increasing role in Iraq.

Illinois environmental officials will dump a toxic chemical into a nearly 6-mile stretch of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal Wednesday to keep the voracious Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes while an electrical barrier is turned off......

From rooftop bees in Brooklyn to backyard apiaries, people all over are discovering the joys and benefits of raising bees.